Alan Bates
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 17, 1934
- Died
- Dec 27, 2003 (aged 69)
- Place of birth
- Allestree, Derbyshire, England
- Credits
- 101
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
Filmography
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025Movie
Archive
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020Movie
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
2018Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet
2011Movie
Claudius (archive footage)
Spartacus
2004TV
Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
2004Movie
Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North
2004Movie
Michael Baytes
The Statement
2003Movie
Armand Bertier
Meanwhile
2003Movie
Father Peter
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003Movie
Self (archive footage)
Salem Witch Trials
2003TV
Sir William Phips
Evelyn
2002Movie
Thomas Connolly
The Making of Gosford Park
2002Movie
Self
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002Movie
King George V
The Sum of All Fears
2002Movie
Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
2002Movie
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
2001Movie
Jennings
Love in a Cold Climate
2001TV
Uncle Matthew
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
2001Movie
Self
The Prince and the Pauper
2000Movie
Re Enrico VIII
In the Beginning
2000TV
Jethro
Arabian Nights
2000TV
Storyteller
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000Movie
Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard
1999Movie
Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift
1998Movie
Reg Green
The Grotesque
1995Movie
Sir Hugo Coal
Oliver's Travels
1995TV
Oliver
Hard Times
1994TV
Josiah Bounderby
Silent Tongue
1994Movie
Eamon McCree
Shuttlecock
1993Movie
Major James Prentis VC
Unnatural Pursuits
1992TV
Hamish Partt
Losing Track
1992Movie
Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits
1992Movie
Hamish Partt
Pebble Mill
1991TV
Self
Secret Friends
1991Movie
John
Hamlet
1990Movie
Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990Movie
Marcel Proust
Dr. M
1990Movie
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Mr. Frost
1990Movie
Felix Detweiler
Screen One
1989TV
Henry Sitchell
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989Movie
Malcolm Forrest
The Dog It Was That Died
1989Movie
Blair
We Think the World of You
1988Movie
Frank Meadows
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988Movie
John Fabian
A Prayer for the Dying
1987Movie
Jack Meehan
Pack of Lies
1987Movie
Stewart
Duet for One
1986Movie
David Cornwallis
One for the Road
1985Movie
Nicholas
Summer Season
1985TV
Nicolas
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985TV
John Fabian
Hands Up!
1985Movie
Self (1981 footage)
Screen Two
1985TV
Marcel Proust
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984Movie
Dr. Alfred Jones
A Voyage Round My Father
1984Movie
John Mortimer
An Englishman Abroad
1983Movie
Guy Burgess
The Wicked Lady
1983Movie
Captain Jerry Jackson
The Return of the Soldier
1983Movie
Captain Chris Baldry
Separate Tables
1983Movie
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Britannia Hospital
1982Movie
Macready
Quartet
1981Movie
H.J. Heidler
The Trespasser
1981Movie
Siegmund
Very Like a Whale
1981Movie
Sir Jock Mellor
Nijinsky
1980Movie
Sergei Diaghilev
The Rose
1979Movie
Rudge Campbell
The Shout
1978Movie
Charles Crossley
An Unmarried Woman
1978Movie
Saul Kaplan
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1978TV
Michael Henchard
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976TV
The Collection
1976Movie
James
Two Sundays
1975Movie
Charles
Plaintiffs and Defendants
1975Movie
Peter
Royal Flash
1975Movie
Rudi Von Sternberg
In Celebration
1975Movie
Andrew Shaw
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974Movie
Narrator (voice)
Butley
1974Movie
Ben Butley
Impossible Object
1973Movie
Harry
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972Movie
Bri
Second Best
1972Movie
Tom
The Go-Between
1971Movie
Ted Burgess
Great Performances
1971TV
James
Three Sisters
1970Movie
Col. Vershinin
Women in Love
1969Movie
Rupert Birkin
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
1969Movie
Self
The Fixer
1968Movie
Yakov Bok
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
1967Movie
Self
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967Movie
Gabriel Oak
Lionpower from MGM
1967Movie
Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
King of Hearts
1966Movie
Charles Plumpick
Georgy Girl
1966Movie
Jos Jones
Once Upon a Tractor
1965Movie
Joe Turrel
Zorba the Greek
1964Movie
Basil
The Wednesday Play
1964TV
Grigor Pecharin
Nothing But the Best
1964Movie
Jimmy Brewster
The Caretaker
1964Movie
Mick
The Running Man
1963Movie
Stephen
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
A Kind of Loving
1962Movie
Victor 'Vic' Brown
Whistle Down the Wind
1961Movie
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
The Entertainer
1960Movie
Frank Rice
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Lewis Black, Mario
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Stewart