Alan Bates
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 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.
Acting (78 movies)
Hamlet
1990
Zorba the Greek
1964
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
Gosford Park
2001
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020
Spartacus
2004
Britannia Hospital
1982
A Kind of Loving
1962
Whistle Down the Wind
1961
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
Mister Frost
1990
The Statement
2003
Dr. M
1990
The Go-Between
1971
Georgy Girl
1966
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
Losing Track
1992
The Rose
1979
An Unmarried Woman
1978
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
Women in Love
1969
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
Quartet
1981
King of Hearts
1966
The Grotesque
1995
The Entertainer
1960
Duet for One
1986
Royal Flash
1975
Hollywood North
2004
The Fixer
1968
The Caretaker
1964
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
Secret Friends
1991
We Think the World of You
1988
An Englishman Abroad
1983
The Wicked Lady
1983
Nothing But the Best
1964
Separate Tables
1983
The Running Man
1963
Silent Tongue
1993
Butley
1974
In Celebration
1975
Nijinsky
1980
The Collection
1976
One for the Road
1985
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
Impossible Object
1973
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
The Return of the Soldier
1983
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Nicholas’ Gift
1998
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
Hands Up!
1985
Pack of Lies
1987
Very Like a Whale
1981
Three Sisters
1970
Hard Times
1994
The Trespasser
1981
Evelyn
2002
Salem Witch Trials
2002
The Dog It Was That Died
1989
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
2001
Second Best
1972
Meanwhile
2003
The Cherry Orchard
1999
Shuttlecock
1993
The Shout
1978
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Second Best | 1972 | Producer |