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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 Unmarr…
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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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Alan Bates's Filmography
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Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes
The Statement
as Armand Bertier
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Meanwhile
as Father Peter
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George V
The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
as Jennings
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
as Self
The Prince and the Pauper
as Re Enrico VIII
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
as Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard
as Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift
as Reg Green
The Grotesque
as Sir Hugo Coal
Silent Tongue
as Eamon McCree
Shuttlecock
as Major James Prentis VC
Losing Track
as Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
Secret Friends
as John
Hamlet
as Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Marcel Proust
Dr. M
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Mr. Frost
as Felix Detweiler
Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Malcolm Forrest
The Dog It Was That Died
as Blair
We Think the World of You
as Frank Meadows
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
as John Fabian
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
Pack of Lies
as Stewart
Duet for One
as David Cornwallis
One for the Road
as Nicholas
Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Alfred Jones
A Voyage Round My Father
as John Mortimer
An Englishman Abroad
as Guy Burgess
The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson
The Return of the Soldier
as Captain Chris Baldry
Separate Tables
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Britannia Hospital
as Macready
Quartet
as H.J. Heidler
The Trespasser
as Siegmund
Very Like a Whale
as Sir Jock Mellor
Nijinsky
as Sergei Diaghilev
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
The Shout
as Charles Crossley
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
The Collection
as James
No Poster
Two Sundays
as Charles
No Poster
Plaintiffs and Defendants
as Peter
Royal Flash
as Rudi Von Sternberg
In Celebration
as Andrew Shaw
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
as Narrator (voice)
Butley
as Ben Butley
Impossible Object
as Harry
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as Bri
Second Best
as Tom
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
Three Sisters
as Col. Vershinin
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
as Self
The Fixer
as Yakov Bok
No Poster
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
as Self
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
Georgy Girl
as Jos Jones
Once Upon a Tractor
as Joe Turrel
Zorba the Greek
as Basil
Nothing But the Best
as Jimmy Brewster
The Caretaker
as Mick
The Running Man
as Stephen
A Kind of Loving
as Victor 'Vic' Brown
Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
The Entertainer
as Frank Rice