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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 17, 1934
Died
December 27, 2003
Place of Birth
Allestree, Derbyshire, England
Also Known As
- Алан Бейтс
Alan Bates
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Archive
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
6.0
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020
6.8
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
7.0
Claudius (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
2011
7.2
Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
7.0
Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
2004
6.7
Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
2004
4.9
Michael Baytes
Hollywood North
2004
5.6
Armand Bertier
The Statement
2003
0.0
Father Peter
Meanwhile
2003
Credits
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
2025
10.0
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
2020
6.0
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
6.8
Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)
2011
7.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
2004
7.0
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
2004
6.7
Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes
2004
4.9
The Statement
as Armand Bertier
2003
5.6
Meanwhile
as Father Peter
2003
0.0
Salem Witch Trials
as Sir William Phips
2002
6.1
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
2002
6.4
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
2002
5.0
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George V
2002
5.9
The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
2002
6.4
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
2002
6.2
Gosford Park
as Jennings
2001
6.8
Love in a Cold Climate
as Uncle Matthew
2001
7.8
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
as Self
2001
0.0
The Prince and the Pauper
as Re Enrico VIII
2000
6.2
In the Beginning
as Jethro
2000
6.0
Arabian Nights
as Storyteller
2000
6.7
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
as Calpornius
2000
5.3
The Cherry Orchard
as Gayev
1999
4.3
Nicholas’ Gift
as Reg Green
1998
5.0
The Grotesque
as Sir Hugo Coal
1995
5.1
Oliver's Travels
as Oliver
1995
5.0
Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby
1994
0.0
Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby
1994
7.0
Shuttlecock
as Major James Prentis VC
1993
2.0
Silent Tongue
as Eamon McCree
1993
4.6
Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
1992
6.0
Losing Track
as Henry Sitchell
1992
0.0
Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
1992
0.0
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Secret Friends
as John
1991
3.5
Hamlet
as Claudius
1990
6.6
102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Marcel Proust
1990
6.0
Dr. M
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
1990
4.4
Mister Frost
as Felix Detweiler
1990
6.1
Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Malcolm Forrest
1989
6.2
The Dog It Was That Died
as Blair
1989
0.0
We Think the World of You
as Frank Meadows
1988
6.3
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
as John Fabian
1988
0.0
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
1987
5.9
Pack of Lies
as Stewart
1987
6.6
Duet for One
as David Cornwallis
1986
5.2
One for the Road
as Nicholas
1985
0.0
The Ray Bradbury Theater
as John Fabian
1985
6.8
Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)
1985
5.8
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Alfred Jones
1984
5.6
A Voyage Round My Father
as John Mortimer
1984
7.6
An Englishman Abroad
as Guy Burgess
1983
5.7
The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson
1983
4.8
The Return of the Soldier
as Captain Chris Baldry
1983
6.2
Separate Tables
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
1983
6.2
Britannia Hospital
as Macready
1982
6.2
Quartet
as H.J. Heidler
1981
5.7
The Trespasser
as Siegmund
1981
0.0
Very Like a Whale
as Sir Jock Mellor
1981
3.0
Nijinsky
as Sergei Diaghilev
1980
4.8
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
1979
6.7
The Shout
as Charles Crossley
1978
6.0
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
1978
6.7
The Mayor of Casterbridge
as Michael Henchard
1978
5.7
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
7.0
The Collection
as James
1976
4.0
🎬
Two Sundays
as Charles
1975
2.3
🎬
Plaintiffs and Defendants
as Peter
1975
7.0
Royal Flash
as Rudi Von Sternberg
1975
5.8
In Celebration
as Andrew Shaw
1975
4.8
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
as Narrator (voice)
1974
6.0
Butley
as Ben Butley
1974
6.0
Impossible Object
as Harry
1973
4.5
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as Bri
1972
4.2
Second Best
as Tom
1972
5.0
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
1971
6.8
Great Performances
as James
1971
5.8
Three Sisters
as Col. Vershinin
1970
3.8
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
1969
6.5
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
as Self
1969
0.0
The Fixer
as Yakov Bok
1968
6.0
🎬
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
as Himself
1967
0.0
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
1967
6.8
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.5
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
1966
6.9
Georgy Girl
as Jos Jones
1966
6.2
Once Upon a Tractor
as Joe Turrel
1965
5.0
Zorba the Greek
as Basil
1964
7.4
Nothing But the Best
as Jimmy Brewster
1964
5.8
The Caretaker
as Mick
1964
7.2
The Running Man
as Stephen
1963
6.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
A Kind of Loving
as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
1962
7.0
Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
1961
7.2
The Entertainer
as Frank Rice
1960
6.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Stewart
1951
8.6