Michael Bates
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-12-04 (58 years old)
Deathday
1978-01-11
Place of Birth
Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Also known As
Michael Hammond Bates
Michael Bates
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. 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 ...
Acting
1971
as Chief Guard
1970
as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
1969
as Drunk Lance Corporal
1969
as Warrant Officer Warwick
1968
as Inspector Crabbe
1966
as Mike MacFarland
1969
as Joe
1967
as Inspector Clarke
1954
as Self
1968
as Mr. McGregor
1968
as Dr. Spink
1969
as Mr. Harrington
1978
as Narrator
1977
as (voice)
1968
as Andreas / Sir Richard
1969
as Fred
1959
as Bootle
1965
as Professor Godbole
1968
as Mr. Ambekar
1972
as Eddie Holmes
1958
as Froome
1973
as Mr. Arnold Needham
1976
as Madman
1970
as Magistrate
1971
as Arthur
1972
as Sergeant Spearman
1970
as Mr. Spimm
1954
as Major Broke-Smith
1956
as Consular Official (uncredited)
1955
as Captain Alan Gerald
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