Alan Bates
Born February 17, 1934 (Age: 92)
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Allestree, Derbyshire, England
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.
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.
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Filmography
Discovering Hamlet
2011
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as Claudius (archive footage)
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Age: 77
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 69
Salem Witch Trials
2002
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as Sir William Phips
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Age: 68
Evelyn
2002
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as Thomas Connolly
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Age: 68
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
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as Self
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Age: 68
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
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as King George V
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Age: 68
The Sum of All Fears
2002
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as Dressler
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Age: 68
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
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as Alexander Leek
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Age: 67
Gosford Park
2001
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as Jennings
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Age: 67
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
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as Re Enrico VIII
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Age: 66
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000
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as Calpornius
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Age: 66
Nicholas’ Gift
1998
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as Reg Green
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Age: 64
Shuttlecock
1993
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as Major James Prentis VC
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Age: 59
Silent Tongue
1993
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as Eamon McCree
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Age: 58
Losing Track
1992
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as Henry Sitchell
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Age: 58
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
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as Hamish Partt
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Age: 57
Secret Friends
1991
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as John
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Age: 57
Hamlet
1990
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as Claudius
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Age: 56
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
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as Marcel Proust
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Age: 56
Dr. M
1990
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as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
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Age: 56
Mister Frost
1990
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as Felix Detweiler
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Age: 56
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
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as Malcolm Forrest
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Age: 55
The Dog It Was That Died
1989
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as Blair
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Age: 54
We Think the World of You
1988
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as Frank Meadows
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Age: 54
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988
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as John Fabian
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Age: 54
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
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as Jack Meehan
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Age: 53
Pack of Lies
1987
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as Stewart
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Age: 53
Duet for One
1986
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as David Cornwallis
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Age: 52
One for the Road
1985
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as Nicholas
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Age: 51
Hands Up!
1985
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as Self (1981 footage)
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Age: 50
The Wicked Lady
1983
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as Captain Jerry Jackson
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Age: 49
Britannia Hospital
1982
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as Macready
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Age: 48
Quartet
1981
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as H.J. Heidler
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Age: 47
The Trespasser
1981
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as Siegmund
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Age: 46
Very Like a Whale
1981
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as Sir Jock Mellor
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Age: 46
Nijinsky
1980
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as Sergei Diaghilev
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Age: 46
The Rose
1979
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as Rudge Campbell
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Age: 45
The Shout
1978
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as Charles Crossley
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Age: 44
An Unmarried Woman
1978
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as Saul Kaplan
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Age: 44
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 40
Butley
1974
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as Ben Butley
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Age: 39
Impossible Object
1973
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as Harry
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Age: 39
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
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as Bri
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Age: 38
Second Best
1972
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as Tom
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Age: 37
Women in Love
1969
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as Rupert Birkin
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Age: 35
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
1969
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as Self
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Age: 34
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
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as Joe Turrel
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Age: 31
Zorba the Greek
1964
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as Basil
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Age: 30
Nothing But the Best
1964
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as Jimmy Brewster
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Age: 30
The Caretaker
1964
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as Mick
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Age: 29
The Running Man
1963
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as Stephen
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Age: 29
A Kind of Loving
1962
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as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
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Age: 28
Whistle Down the Wind
1961
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as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
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Age: 27
The Entertainer
1960
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as Frank Rice
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Age: 26