Alan Bates
Biography
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his tour-de-force with Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
Known For
Claudius
Hamlet
Basil
Αλέξης Ζορμπάς
Gabriel Oak
Far from the Madding Crowd
Alexander Leek
The Mothman Prophecies
Jennings
Gosford Park
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nothing Like a Dame
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
Macready
Britannia Hospital
Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
A Kind of Loving
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
Whistle Down the Wind
Jack Meehan
A Prayer for the Dying
Felix Detweiler
Mister Frost
Armand Bertier
The Statement
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Dr. M
Ted Burgess
The Go-Between
Jos Jones
Georgy Girl
Re Enrico VIII
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry Sitchell
Losing Track
Rudge Campbell
The Rose
Saul Kaplan
An Unmarried Woman
King George V
Bertie and Elizabeth
Rupert Birkin
Women in Love
John Mortimer
A Voyage Round My Father
H.J. Heidler
Quartet
Charles Plumpick
Le Roi de cœur
Sir Hugo Coal
The Grotesque
Frank Rice
The Entertainer
David Cornwallis
Duet for One
Rudi Von Sternberg
Royal Flash
Michael Baytes
Hollywood North
Yakov Bok
The Fixer
Mick
The Caretaker
Bri
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
John
Secret Friends
Frank Meadows
We Think the World of You
Guy Burgess
An Englishman Abroad
Captain Jerry Jackson
The Wicked Lady
Jimmy Brewster
Nothing But the Best
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Separate Tables
Stephen
The Running Man
Eamon McCree
Silent Tongue
Ben Butley
Butley
Andrew Shaw
In Celebration
Sergei Diaghilev
Nijinsky
James
The Collection
Nicholas
One for the Road
Malcolm Forrest
Force majeure
Harry
L'Impossible Objet
Marcel Proust
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Captain Chris Baldry
The Return of the Soldier
Claudius (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
Reg Green
Nicholas' Gift
Hamish Partt
Unnatural Pursuits
Self (1981 footage)
Ręce do góry
Stewart
Pack of Lies
Sir Jock Mellor
Very Like a Whale
Col. Vershinin
Three Sisters
Josiah Bounderby
Hard Times
Siegmund
The Trespasser
Thomas Connolly
Evelyn
Sir William Phips
Salem Witch Trials
Blair
The Dog It Was That Died
Calpornius
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Charles
Two Sundays
Peter
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Claudius (archive footage)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Narrator (voice)
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Dressler
The Sum of All Fears
Joe Turrel
Once Upon a Tractor
Self
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
Tom
Second Best
Meanwhile
Gayev
The Cherry Orchard
Major James Prentis VC
Shuttlecock
Charles Crossley
The Shout
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Self
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Himself
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-02-17
Place of Birth
Allestree, Derbyshire, England
Also Known As
Алан Бейтс