Alan Bates
Overview
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.
2002
The Sum of All Fears
Average rating: 6.3
2002
The Mothman Prophecies
Average rating: 6.2
1969
Women in Love
Average rating: 6.5
1964
Zorba the Greek
Average rating: 7.5
2004
Spartacus
Average rating: 6.7
1960
The Entertainer
Average rating: 6.1
2002
Salem Witch Trials
Average rating: 6.2
1979
The Rose
Average rating: 6.6
1978
An Unmarried Woman
Average rating: 6.7
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd
Average rating: 6.9
2001
Gosford Park
Average rating: 6.9
1983
The Return of the Soldier
Average rating: 6.2
1990
Hamlet
Average rating: 6.6
1985
Hands Up!
Average rating: 5.8
1993
Silent Tongue
Average rating: 4.8
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Average rating: 7.2
1971
Great Performances
Average rating: 4.9
1985
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Average rating: 6.9
2004
Spartacus
Average rating: 6.9
2000
Arabian Nights
Average rating: 6.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Average rating: 8.8
1995
Oliver's Travels
Average rating: 6
1978
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Average rating: 5.5
2001
Love in a Cold Climate
Average rating: 7.8
2000
In the Beginning
Average rating: 5.9
1994
Hard Times
Average rating: 0Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Movie | Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father | Major James Prentis (archival footage) |
| 2018 | Movie | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2011 | Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Claudius (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2004 | Tv Show | Spartacus | Antonius Agrippa |
| 2004 | Movie | Spartacus | Antonius Agrippa |
| 2004 | Movie | Hollywood North | Michael Baytes |
| 2003 | Movie | The Statement | Armand Bertier |
| 2003 | Movie | Meanwhile | - |
| 2002 | Movie | Salem Witch Trials | Sir William Phips |
| 2002 | Movie | Evelyn | Thomas Connolly |
| 2002 | Movie | The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self |
| 2002 | Movie | Bertie and Elizabeth | King George V |
| 2002 | Movie | The Sum of All Fears | Dressler |
| 2002 | Movie | The Mothman Prophecies | Alexander Leek |
| 2001 | Movie | Gosford Park | Jennings |
| 2001 | Tv Show | Love in a Cold Climate | Uncle Matthew |
| 2001 | Movie | Anthony Quinn: The Final Words | Self |
| 2000 | Movie | The Prince and the Pauper | Re Enrico VIII |
| 2000 | Tv Show | In the Beginning | Jethro |
| 2000 | Tv Show | Arabian Nights | Storyteller |
| 2000 | Movie | St. Patrick: The Irish Legend | Calpornius |
| 1999 | Movie | The Cherry Orchard | Gayev |
| 1998 | Movie | Nicholas’ Gift | Reg Green |
| 1995 | Movie | The Grotesque | Sir Hugo Coal |
| 1995 | Tv Show | Oliver's Travels | Oliver |
| 1994 | Movie | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby |
| 1994 | Tv Show | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby |
| 1993 | Movie | Shuttlecock | Major James Prentis VC |
| 1993 | Movie | Silent Tongue | Eamon McCree |
| 1992 | Tv Show | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt |
| 1992 | Movie | Losing Track | Henry Sitchell |
| 1992 | Movie | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt |
| 1991 | Tv Show | Pebble Mill | Self |
| 1991 | Movie | Secret Friends | John |
| 1991 | Movie | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Claudius (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Movie | Hamlet | Claudius |
| 1990 | Movie | 102 Boulevard Haussmann | Marcel Proust |
| 1990 | Movie | Dr. M | Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru |
| 1990 | Movie | Mister Frost | Felix Detweiler |
| 1989 | Movie | Uncontrollable Circumstances | Malcolm Forrest |
| 1989 | Movie | The Dog It Was That Died | Blair |
| 1988 | Movie | We Think the World of You | Frank Meadows |
| 1987 | Movie | A Prayer for the Dying | Jack Meehan |
| 1987 | Movie | Pack of Lies | Stewart |
| 1986 | Movie | Ansias de vivir (Duet for One) | David Cornwallis |
| 1985 | Movie | One for the Road | Nicholas |
| 1985 | Tv Show | The Ray Bradbury Theater | John Fabian |
| 1985 | Movie | Hands Up! | Self (1981 footage) |
| 1984 | Movie | Dr. Fischer of Geneva | Dr. Alfred Jones |
| 1984 | Movie | A Voyage Round My Father | John Mortimer |
| 1983 | Movie | An Englishman Abroad | Guy Burgess |
| 1983 | Movie | The Wicked Lady | Captain Jerry Jackson |
| 1983 | Movie | The Return of the Soldier | Captain Chris Baldry |
| 1983 | Movie | Separate Tables | John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock |
| 1982 | Movie | Britannia Hospital | Macready |
| 1981 | Movie | Quartet | H.J. Heidler |
| 1981 | Movie | The Trespasser | Siegmund |
| 1981 | Movie | Very Like a Whale | Sir Jock Mellor |
| 1980 | Movie | Nijinsky | Sergei Diaghilev |
| 1979 | Movie | The Rose | Rudge Campbell |
| 1978 | Movie | The Shout | Charles Crossley |
| 1978 | Movie | An Unmarried Woman | Saul Kaplan |
| 1978 | Tv Show | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Michael Henchard |
| 1976 | Tv Show | Laurence Olivier Presents | - |
| 1976 | Movie | The Collection | James |
| 1975 | Movie | Two Sundays | Charles |
| 1975 | Movie | Plaintiffs and Defendants | Peter |
| 1975 | Movie | Royal Flash | Rudi Von Sternberg |
| 1975 | Movie | In Celebration | Andrew Shaw |
| 1974 | Movie | The Story of Jacob and Joseph | Narrator (voice) |
| 1974 | Movie | Butley | Ben Butley |
| 1973 | Movie | Story of a Love Story | Harry |
| 1972 | Movie | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Bri |
| 1972 | Movie | Second Best | Tom |
| 1971 | Movie | The Go-Between | Ted Burgess |
| 1971 | Tv Show | Great Performances | James |
| 1970 | Movie | Three Sisters | Col. Vershinin |
| 1969 | Movie | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin |
| 1968 | Movie | The Fixer | Yakov Bok |
| 1967 | Movie | Far from the Madding Crowd | Gabriel Oak |
| 1966 | Movie | King of Hearts | Charles Plumpick |
| 1966 | Movie | Georgy Girl | Jos Jones |
| 1965 | Movie | Once Upon a Tractor | Joe Turrel |
| 1964 | Movie | Zorba the Greek | Basil |
| 1964 | Movie | Nothing But the Best | Jimmy Brewster |
| 1964 | Movie | The Caretaker | Mick |
| 1963 | Movie | The Running Man | Stephen |
| 1962 | Movie | A Kind of Loving | Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown |
| 1961 | Movie | Whistle Down the Wind | The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey |
| 1960 | Movie | The Entertainer | Frank Rice |
| 1951 | Tv Show | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Stewart |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Movie | Second Best | Production |