Alan Bates
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday17 February 1934
Died27 December 2003 (age 69)
Place of birthAllestree, Derbyshire, England
Known credits100
Biography
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 W…
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025 · Archive
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020 · Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Claudius (archive footage)
Spartacus
2004 · Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
2004 · Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North
2004 · Michael Baytes
The Statement
2003 · Armand Bertier
Meanwhile
2003 · Father Peter
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Salem Witch Trials
2003 · Sir William Phips
Evelyn
2002 · Thomas Connolly
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Self
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002 · King George V
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
2002 · Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
2001 · Jennings
Love in a Cold Climate
2001 · Uncle Matthew
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
2001 · Self
The Prince and the Pauper
2000 · Re Enrico VIII
In the Beginning
2000 · Jethro
Arabian Nights
2000 · Storyteller
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000 · Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard
1999 · Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift
1998 · Reg Green
The Grotesque
1995 · Sir Hugo Coal
Oliver's Travels
1995 · Oliver
Hard Times
1994 · Josiah Bounderby
Silent Tongue
1994 · Eamon McCree
Shuttlecock
1993 · Major James Prentis VC
Unnatural Pursuits
1992 · Hamish Partt
Losing Track
1992 · Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits
1992 · Hamish Partt
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
Secret Friends
1991 · John
Hamlet
1990 · Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990 · Marcel Proust
Dr. M
1990 · Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Mr. Frost
1990 · Felix Detweiler
Screen One
1989 · Henry Sitchell
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989 · Malcolm Forrest
The Dog It Was That Died
1989 · Blair
We Think the World of You
1988 · Frank Meadows
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988 · John Fabian
A Prayer for the Dying
1987 · Jack Meehan
Pack of Lies
1987 · Stewart
Duet for One
1986 · David Cornwallis
One for the Road
1985 · Nicholas
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