Alan Bates

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Acting

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.

Filmography

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