Alan Bates

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-02-17 (69 years old)

Deathday

2003-12-27

Place of Birth

Allestree, Derbyshire, England

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. ...

Acting

1990

Hamlet

as Claudius

1964

1967

2002

The Mothman Prophecies

as Alexander Leek

2001

Gosford Park

as Jennings

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2020

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father

as Major James Prentis (archival footage)

2004

Spartacus

as Antonius Agrippa

1982

1962

A Kind of Loving

as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown

1961

Whistle Down the Wind

as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey

1987

1990

Mister Frost

as Felix Detweiler

2003

The Statement

as Armand Bertier

1990

Dr. M

as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru

1971

The Go-Between

as Ted Burgess

1966

Georgy Girl

as Jos Jones

2000

The Prince and the Pauper

as Re Enrico VIII

1992

Losing Track

as Henry Sitchell

1979

The Rose

as Rudge Campbell

1978

An Unmarried Woman

as Saul Kaplan

2002

Bertie and Elizabeth

as King George V

1969

Women in Love

as Rupert Birkin

1984

A Voyage Round My Father

as John Mortimer

1981

Quartet

as H.J. Heidler

1966

King of Hearts

as Charles Plumpick

1995

The Grotesque

as Sir Hugo Coal

1960

The Entertainer

as Frank Rice

1986

Duet for One

as David Cornwallis

1975

Royal Flash

as Rudi Von Sternberg

2004

Hollywood North

as Michael Baytes

1968

The Fixer

as Yakov Bok

1964

1991

1988

1983

An Englishman Abroad

as Guy Burgess

1983

The Wicked Lady

as Captain Jerry Jackson

1964

Nothing But the Best

as Jimmy Brewster

1983

Separate Tables

as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock

1963

The Running Man

as Stephen

1993

Silent Tongue

as Eamon McCree

1974

Butley

as Ben Butley

1975

In Celebration

as Andrew Shaw

1980

Nijinsky

as Sergei Diaghilev

1976

1989

1985

One for the Road

as Nicholas

1973

1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann

as Marcel Proust

1983

The Return of the Soldier

as Captain Chris Baldry

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Claudius (archive footage)

1998

Nicholas’ Gift

as Reg Green

1992

Unnatural Pursuits

as Hamish Partt

1985

Hands Up!

as Self (1981 footage)

1987

Pack of Lies

as Stewart

1981

Very Like a Whale

as Sir Jock Mellor

1970

Three Sisters

as Col. Vershinin

1994

Hard Times

as Josiah Bounderby

1981

The Trespasser

as Siegmund

2002

Evelyn

as Thomas Connolly

2002

Salem Witch Trials

as Sir William Phips

1975

Two Sundays

as Charles

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Claudius (archive footage)

2002

1974

1965

Once Upon a Tractor

as Joe Turrel

1972

1999

1993

Shuttlecock

as Major James Prentis VC

1978

The Shout

as Charles Crossley

1984

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

as Dr. Alfred Jones

Production

1972

Second Best

as Producer

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