
Michael Bates
Biography
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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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Acting (30 movies)

A Clockwork Orange
1971

Patton
1970

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

Battle of Britain
1969

Salt & Pepper
1968

Macready's Gala
1966

Sling Your Hook
1969

Bedazzled
1967

The Stratford Adventure
1954

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968

Arthur? Arthur!
1969

Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
1978

Gulliver's Travels
1977

Hammerhead
1968

Male of the Species
1969

I'm All Right Jack
1959

A Passage to India
1965

The Stone Tape
1972

Dunkirk
1958

No Sex Please - We're British
1973

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976

Every Home Should Have One
1970

The Fox Trot
1971

Frenzy
1972

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970

Carrington V.C.
1954

The Spanish Gardener
1956

Quay South
1955

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958
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