Alan Bates
Acting
🎂 1934-02-17
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.
Cast credits(98)
Self
2007
Self
1962
James
1971
John Fabian
1985
Self
1991
1967
Dressler
2002
Claudius (archive footage)
2011
Alexander Leek
2002
Basil
1964
Jennings
2001
Sir William Phips
2002
James
1976
Antonius Agrippa
2004
Narrator (voice)
1974
Thomas Connolly
2002
Gabriel Oak
1967
Antonius Agrippa
2004
H.J. Heidler
1981
Storyteller
2000
Re Enrico VIII
2000
Stephen
1963
Claudius
1990
Malcolm Forrest
1989
Captain Chris Baldry
1983
Archive
2025
Peter
1975
Jack Meehan
1987
Calpornius
2000
Rudge Campbell
1979
Stewart
1951
Self
1969
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
1961
Uncle Matthew
2001
Rudi Von Sternberg
1975
Yakov Bok
1968
Reg Green
1998
Jethro
2000
John Fabian
1988
Ted Burgess
1971
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Josiah Bounderby
1994
Charles Plumpick
1966
Henry Sitchell
1992
Self
2002
John
1991
Armand Bertier
2003
Claudius (archive footage)
1991
Captain Jerry Jackson
1983
Himself
1967
King George V
2002
1976
Sir Hugo Coal
1995
Frank Rice
1960
Rupert Birkin
1969
Oliver
1995
Bri
1972
Charles Crossley
1978
Macready
1982
Joe Turrel
1965
John Mortimer
1984
Marcel Proust
1990
Jos Jones
1966
Jimmy Brewster
1964
Saul Kaplan
1978
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
1983
Gayev
1999
Charles
1975
Self (1981 footage)
1985
David Cornwallis
1986
Andrew Shaw
1975
Sergei Diaghilev
1980
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
2020
Stewart
1987
Mick
1964
Sir Jock Mellor
1981
Col. Vershinin
1970
Blair
1989
Harry
1973
Michael Henchard
1978
Dr. Alfred Jones
1984
Josiah Bounderby
1994
Ben Butley
1974
Eamon McCree
1993
Felix Detweiler
1990
2003
Hamish Partt
1992
Guy Burgess
1983
Michael Baytes
2004
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
1990
Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
1962
Nicholas
1985
Frank Meadows
1988
Hamish Partt
1992
Major James Prentis VC
1993
Self
2001
Siegmund
1981
Tom
1972