Birth Day: 1934-02-17
Place of birth: Allestree, Derbyshire, England
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.
Credits
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As Major James Prentis (archival footage) -
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited) -
As Claudius (archive footage) -
As Michael Baytes -
As Antonius Agrippa -
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As Armand Bertier -
As King George V -
As Dressler -
As Thomas Connolly -
As Sir William Phips -
As Self -
As Alexander Leek -
As Jennings -
As Self -
As Calpornius -
As Re Enrico VIII -
As Gayev -
As Reg Green -
As Sir Hugo Coal -
As Josiah Bounderby -
As Eamon McCree -
As Major James Prentis VC -
As Henry Sitchell -
As Hamish Partt -
As Claudius (archive footage) -
As John -
As Claudius -
As Marcel Proust -
As Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru -
As Felix Detweiler -
As Blair -
As Malcolm Forrest -
As Frank Meadows -
As Jack Meehan -
As Stewart -
As David Cornwallis -
As Nicholas
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As Self (1981 footage) -
As John Mortimer -
As Dr. Alfred Jones -
As Captain Chris Baldry -
As John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock -
As Captain Jerry Jackson -
As Guy Burgess -
As Macready -
As H.J. Heidler -
As Siegmund -
As Sir Jock Mellor -
As Sergei Diaghilev -
As Rudge Campbell -
As Saul Kaplan -
As Charles Crossley -
As James -
As Rudi Von Sternberg -
As Peter
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As Charles
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As Andrew Shaw -
As Ben Butley -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Harry -
As Tom -
As Bri -
As Ted Burgess -
As Col. Vershinin -
As Rupert Birkin -
As Yakov Bok -
As Gabriel Oak -
As Himself
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As Jos Jones -
As Charles Plumpick -
As Joe Turrel -
As Mick -
As Jimmy Brewster -
As Basil -
As Stephen -
As Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown -
As The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey -
As Frank Rice