Alan Bates
ActingAlso Known As
Алан Бейтс
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.
Movies
(83 total)
The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
as Jennings
Hamlet
as Claudius
Zorba the Greek
as Basil
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
The Shout
as Charles Crossley
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
The Statement
as Armand Bertier
Britannia Hospital
as Macready
A Kind of Loving
as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
TV Shows
(15 total)
Arabian Nights
as Storyteller
The Ray Bradbury Theater
as John Fabian
Great Performances
as James
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
Love in a Cold Climate
as Uncle Matthew
In the Beginning
as Jethro
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Stewart
Oliver's Travels
as Oliver
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard
Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby