Michael Bates
30 movies · 28 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 4, 1920
- Died
- Jan 11, 1978 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
- Also known as
- Michael Hammond Bates
Biography
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Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
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Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared in Richard III and All's Well That End's Well. In 1956 he appeared in Hotel Paradiso which starred Alec Guinness, at the Winter Garden Theatre in London.
He appeared in many UK television series including Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 1975 as Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others. His role as Rangi Ram caused some controversy as it required Bates to be made-up with fake tan to look like an Indian, which he took to naturally as he was born in India and spoke the Hindi language fluently. On radio he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series The Navy Lark. These were: Able Seaman Ginger, Lt. Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre and Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchison.
Bates' film roles include Battle of Britain (1969) as Warrant Officer Warwick, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as a Lance-corporal, Patton (1970) as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (to whom he bore a striking resemblance), Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock, and the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). On stage, he did Shakespeare at Stratford and the Old Vic and made a big impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. He died of cancer in Cambridge, aged 57.
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Known for
Michael Bates: movies and TV shows
Acting (58)
- 1978 Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
as Narrator
- 1977 Gulliver's Travels
as (voice)
- 1976 The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
as Madman
- 1975
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973 No Sex Please - We're British
as Mr. Arnold Needham
- 1973
- 1972 The Stone Tape
as Eddie Holmes
- 1972 Frenzy
as DS Spearman
- 1971 A Clockwork Orange
as Chief Guard
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971 The Fox Trot
as Arthur
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Mr. Spimm
- 1970 Every Home Should Have One
as Magistrate
- 1970
- 1970 Patton
as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
- 1969 Arthur? Arthur!
as Mr. Harrington
- 1969 Battle of Britain
as Warrant Officer Warwick
- 1969 Sling Your Hook
as Joe
- 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War
as Drunk Lance Corporal
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969 Male of the Species
as Fred
- 1968 Hammerhead
as Andreas / Sir Richard
- 1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
as Dr. Spink
- 1968 Salt & Pepper
as Inspector Crabbe
- 1968 The Brahmin Widow
as Mr. Ambekar
- 1968
- 1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
as Mr. McGregor
- 1967 Bedazzled
as Inspector Clarke
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966 Macready's Gala
as Mike MacFarland
- 1965 A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964
- 1963
- 1962
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 I'm All Right Jack
as Bootle
- 1958 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Starveling
- 1958 Dunkirk
as Froome
- 1958
- 1956 The Spanish Gardener
as Consular Official (uncredited)
- 1956
- 1955 Quay South
as Captain Alan Gerald
- 1954 Carrington V.C.
as Major Broke-Smith
- 1950
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1968 Cilla
1 episode
- 1954