Alan Bates
73 movies · 18 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 17, 1934
- Died
- Dec 27, 2003 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Allestree, Derbyshire, England
- Also known as
- Алан Бейтс
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.
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Known for
Alan Bates: movies and TV shows
Acting (91)
- 2025
- 2020 Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)
- 2004
- 2004 Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
- 2004 Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes
- 2003 The Statement
as Armand Bertier
- 2003 Meanwhile
as Father Peter
- 2003
- 2002 Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
- 2002 Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George V
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
- 2002 The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
- 2001 Gosford Park
as Jennings
- 2001
- 2000 The Prince and the Pauper
as Re Enrico VIII
- 2000
- 2000
- 2000 St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
as Calpornius
- 1999 The Cherry Orchard
as Gayev
- 1998 Nicholas’ Gift
as Reg Green
- 1995 The Grotesque
as Sir Hugo Coal
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994 Silent Tongue
as Eamon McCree
- 1993 Shuttlecock
as Major James Prentis VC
- 1992
- 1992 Losing Track
as Henry Sitchell
- 1992 Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
- 1991 Secret Friends
as John
- 1990 Hamlet
as Claudius
- 1990 102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Marcel Proust
- 1990 Dr. M
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
- 1990 Mr. Frost
as Felix Detweiler
- 1989
- 1989 Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Malcolm Forrest
- 1989 The Dog It Was That Died
as Blair
- 1988 We Think the World of You
as Frank Meadows
- 1988 The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
as John Fabian
- 1987 A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
- 1987 Pack of Lies
as Stewart
- 1986 Duet for One
as David Cornwallis
- 1985 One for the Road
as Nicholas
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Alfred Jones
- 1984 A Voyage Round My Father
as John Mortimer
- 1983 An Englishman Abroad
as Guy Burgess
- 1983 The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier
as Captain Chris Baldry
- 1983 Separate Tables
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
- 1982 Britannia Hospital
as Macready
- 1981 Quartet
as H.J. Heidler
- 1981 The Trespasser
as Siegmund
- 1981 Very Like a Whale
as Sir Jock Mellor
- 1980 Nijinsky
as Sergei Diaghilev
- 1979 The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
- 1978 The Shout
as Charles Crossley
- 1978 An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
- 1978
- 1976
- 1976 The Collection
as James
- 1975 Two Sundays
as Charles
- 1975 Plaintiffs and Defendants
as Peter
- 1975 Royal Flash
as Rudi Von Sternberg
- 1975 In Celebration
as Andrew Shaw
- 1974 The Story of Jacob and Joseph
as Narrator (voice)
- 1974 Butley
as Ben Butley
- 1973 Impossible Object
as Harry
- 1972
- 1972 Second Best
as Tom
- 1971 The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
- 1971
- 1970 Three Sisters
as Col. Vershinin
- 1969 Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
- 1968 The Fixer
as Yakov Bok
- 1967 Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
- 1966 King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
- 1966 Georgy Girl
as Jos Jones
- 1965 Once Upon a Tractor
as Joe Turrel
- 1964 Zorba the Greek
as Basil
- 1964
- 1964 Nothing But the Best
as Jimmy Brewster
- 1964 The Caretaker
as Mick
- 1963 The Running Man
as Stephen
- 1962 A Kind of Loving
as Victor 'Vic' Brown
- 1961 Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
- 1960 The Entertainer
as Frank Rice
- 1956
- 1951
Behind the camera (1)
- 1972 Second Best
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2018
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 1991 Pebble Mill
1 episode
- 1985
- 1969
- 1967
- 1967
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode