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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Sum of All Fears (2002) — Dressler
2. The Mothman Prophecies (2002) — Alexander Leek
3. Gosford Park (2001) — Jennings
4. Hamlet (1990) — Claudius
5. Zorba the Greek (1964) — Basil
6. The Go-Between (1971) — Ted Burgess
7. Women in Love (1969) — Rupert Birkin
8. The Rose (1979) — Rudge Campbell
9. The Shout (1978) — Charles Crossley
10. A Prayer for the Dying (1987) — Jack Meehan
11. Evelyn (2002) — Thomas Connolly
12. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) — Gabriel Oak
13. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
14. King of Hearts (1966) — Charles Plumpick
15. An Unmarried Woman (1978) — Saul Kaplan
16. Spartacus (2004) — Antonius Agrippa
17. The Statement (2003) — Armand Bertier
18. Britannia Hospital (1982) — Macready
19. Arabian Nights (2000) — Storyteller
20. A Kind of Loving (1962) — Victor 'Vic' Brown
21. Nothing Like a Dame (2018) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
22. Whistle Down the Wind (1961) — The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
23. The Entertainer (1960) — Frank Rice
24. Georgy Girl (1966) — Jos Jones
25. Mister Frost (1990) — Felix Detweiler
26. The Running Man (1963) — Stephen
27. Uncontrollable Circumstances (1989) — Malcolm Forrest
28. Quartet (1981) — H.J. Heidler
29. The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) — John Fabian
30. Royal Flash (1975) — Rudi Von Sternberg
31. The Fixer (1968) — Yakov Bok
32. The Wicked Lady (1983) — Captain Jerry Jackson
33. Great Performances (1971) — James
34. The Return of the Soldier (1983) — Captain Chris Baldry
35. Spartacus (2004) — Antonius Agrippa
36. Silent Tongue (1994) — Eamon McCree
37. Nijinsky (1980) — Sergei Diaghilev
38. Duet for One (1986) — David Cornwallis
39. We Think the World of You (1988) — Frank Meadows
40. Hollywood North (2004) — Michael Baytes