Alan Bates

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Allestree, Derbyshire, England, 1934-02-17

Died: 2003-12-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	The Entertainer	Frank Rice	61
2	1961	Whistle Down the Wind	The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey	71
3	1962	A Kind of Loving	Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown	70
4	1963	The Running Man	Stephen	66
5	1964	The Caretaker	Mick	72
6	1964	Nothing But the Best	Jimmy Brewster	52
7	1964	Zorba the Greek	Basil	75
8	1965	Once Upon a Tractor	Joe Turrel	50
9	1966	Georgy Girl	Jos Jones	63
10	1966	King of Hearts	Charles Plumpick	69
11	1967	Far from the Madding Crowd	Gabriel Oak	68
12	1967	Location: Far from the Madding Crowd	Himself	0
13	1968	The Fixer	Yakov Bok	58
14	1969	Women in Love	Rupert Birkin	65
15	1970	Three Sisters	Col. Vershinin	37
16	1971	The Go-Between	Ted Burgess	68
17	1972	Second Best	Tom	0
18	1972	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Bri	44
19	1973	Story of a Love Story	Harry	49
20	1974	Butley	Ben Butley	63
21	1974	The Story of Jacob and Joseph	Narrator (voice)	60
22	1975	In Celebration	Andrew Shaw	49
23	1975	Royal Flash	Rudi Von Sternberg	60
24	1975	Plaintiffs and Defendants	Peter	70
25	1975	Two Sundays	Charles	30
26	1976	The Collection	James	57
27	1978	An Unmarried Woman	Saul Kaplan	67
28	1978	The Shout	Charles Crossley	59
29	1979	The Rose	Rudge Campbell	67
30	1980	Nijinsky	Sergei Diaghilev	53
31	1981	Very Like a Whale	Sir Jock Mellor	30
32	1981	The Trespasser	Siegmund	0
33	1981	Quartet	H.J. Heidler	58
34	1982	Britannia Hospital	Macready	63
35	1983	Separate Tables	John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock	63
36	1983	The Return of the Soldier	Captain Chris Baldry	62
37	1983	The Wicked Lady	Captain Jerry Jackson	49
38	1983	An Englishman Abroad	Guy Burgess	59
39	1984	A Voyage Round My Father	John Mortimer	76
40	1984	Dr. Fischer of Geneva	Dr. Alfred Jones	56
41	1985	Hands Up!	Self (1981 footage)	58
42	1985	One for the Road	Nicholas	0
43	1986	Duet for One	David Cornwallis	58
44	1987	Pack of Lies	Stewart	66
45	1987	A Prayer for the Dying	Jack Meehan	58
46	1988	We Think the World of You	Frank Meadows	67
47	1989	The Dog It Was That Died	Blair	0
48	1989	Uncontrollable Circumstances	Malcolm Forrest	62
49	1990	Mister Frost	Felix Detweiler	61
50	1990	Dr. M	Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru	47
51	1990	102 Boulevard Haussmann	Marcel Proust	60
52	1990	Hamlet	Claudius	66
53	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Claudius (archive footage)	0
54	1991	Secret Friends	John	39
55	1992	Unnatural Pursuits	Hamish Partt	0
56	1992	Losing Track	Henry Sitchell	0
57	1993	Silent Tongue	Eamon McCree	48
58	1993	Shuttlecock	Major James Prentis VC	25
59	1994	Hard Times	Josiah Bounderby	70
60	1995	The Grotesque	Sir Hugo Coal	54
61	1998	Nicholas’ Gift	Reg Green	50
62	1999	The Cherry Orchard	Gayev	50
63	2000	St. Patrick: The Irish Legend	Calpornius	53
64	2000	The Prince and the Pauper	Re Enrico VIII	62
65	2001	Anthony Quinn: The Final Words	Self	0
66	2001	Gosford Park	Jennings	68
67	2002	The Mothman Prophecies	Alexander Leek	62
68	2002	The Sum of All Fears	Dressler	64
69	2002	Bertie and Elizabeth	King George V	56
70	2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self	50
71	2002	Evelyn	Thomas Connolly	64
72	2002	Salem Witch Trials	Sir William Phips	62
73	2003	Meanwhile		0
74	2003	The Statement	Armand Bertier	56
75	2004	Hollywood North	Michael Baytes	51
76	2004	Spartacus	Antonius Agrippa	67
77	2011	Discovering Hamlet	Claudius (archive footage)	70
78	2018	Nothing Like a Dame	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	69
79	2020	Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father	Major James Prentis (archival footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Stewart	87
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
3	1971	Great Performances	James	54
4	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents		70
5	1978	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Michael Henchard	57
6	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	John Fabian	69
7	1991	Pebble Mill	Self	31
8	1992	Unnatural Pursuits	Hamish Partt	60
9	1994	Hard Times	Josiah Bounderby	0
10	1995	Oliver's Travels	Oliver	60
11	2000	Arabian Nights	Storyteller	67
12	2000	In the Beginning	Jethro	60
13	2001	Love in a Cold Climate	Uncle Matthew	78
14	2004	Spartacus	Antonius Agrippa	67
15	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72