Michael Bates
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 4, 1920
- Died
- Jan 11, 1978 (aged 57)
- Place of birth
- Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
- Credits
- 60
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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 Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others. His role as Rangi Ram caused some controversy as it required Bates to be made-up with fake tan to look like an Indian, which he took to naturally as he was born in India and spoke the Hindi language fluently. On radio he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series The Navy Lark. These were: Able Seaman Ginger, Lt. Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre and Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchison.
Bates' film roles include Battle of Britain (1969) as Warrant Officer Warwick, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as a Lance-corporal, Patton (1970) as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (to whom he bore a striking resemblance), Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock, and the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). On stage, he did Shakespeare at Stratford and the Old Vic and made a big impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. He died of cancer in Cambridge, aged 57.
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Known for
A Clockwork Orange
1971Movie
Chief Guard
Patton
1970Movie
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Frenzy
1972Movie
DS Spearman
Battle of Britain
1969Movie
Warrant Officer Warwick
Bedazzled
1967Movie
Inspector Clarke
The Saint
1962TV
Joe
Filmography
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
1978Movie
Narrator
Gulliver's Travels
1977Movie
(voice)
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976Movie
Madman
Comedy Premiere
1975TV
Reg Forrester
Fall of Eagles
1974TV
Von Ludendorff
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
1974TV
Rangi Ram
No Sex Please - We're British
1973Movie
Mr. Arnold Needham
Last of the Summer Wine
1973TV
Cyril Blamire
The Stone Tape
1972Movie
Eddie Holmes
Frenzy
1972Movie
DS Spearman
A Clockwork Orange
1971Movie
Chief Guard
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971TV
Colonel Sandstream
Jason King
1971TV
The Fox Trot
1971Movie
Arthur
Budgie
1971TV
Minces Nutty
Six Dates with Barker
1971TV
Gasman
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970Movie
Mr. Spimm
Every Home Should Have One
1970Movie
Magistrate
The Misfit
1970TV
Sgt. Wilfreds
Patton
1970Movie
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Arthur? Arthur!
1969Movie
Mr. Harrington
Battle of Britain
1969Movie
Warrant Officer Warwick
Sling Your Hook
1969Movie
Joe
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969Movie
Drunk Lance Corporal
Male of the Species
1969TV
Fred
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Fred, George
Male of the Species
1969Movie
Fred
Hammerhead
1968Movie
Andreas / Sir Richard
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968Movie
Dr. Spink
Salt & Pepper
1968Movie
Inspector Crabbe
The Brahmin Widow
1968Movie
Mr. Ambekar
Ooh La La!
1968TV
Vatelin
Cilla
1968TV
Self
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968Movie
Mr. McGregor
Bedazzled
1967Movie
Inspector Clarke
Man in a Suitcase
1967TV
Delacroix
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Mr. Ambekar, Harold Radcliff
Macready's Gala
1966Movie
Mike MacFarland
A Passage to India
1965Movie
Professor Godbole
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Professor Godbole
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Captain Gambell, Mr. Lightfoot
Public Eye
1965TV
George
Thursday Theatre
1964TV
Tommy
The Wednesday Play
1964TV
Joe, Mike MacFarland, Tommy
Theatre 625
1964TV
Shpichelsky
Cluff
1964TV
Inspector Mole
The Dick Emery Show
1963TV
The Saint
1962TV
Joe
The Four Just Men
1959TV
Corporal Bates
No Hiding Place
1959TV
Alec Peters
I'm All Right Jack
1959Movie
Bootle
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958Movie
Starveling
Dunkirk
1958Movie
Froome
Ivanhoe
1958TV
Will The Simple
The Spanish Gardener
1956Movie
Consular Official (uncredited)
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Quay South
1955Movie
Captain Alan Gerald
Carrington V.C.
1954Movie
Major Broke-Smith
The Stratford Adventure
1954Movie
Self
Sunday Night Theatre
1950TV
Starveling