Alan Bates

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003
From: 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.

Works

82 films

The Sum of All Fears

20026.4

Gosford Park

20016.8

The Mothman Prophecies

20026.2

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

Women in Love

19696.6

Zorba the Greek

19647.5

Spartacus

20046.7

Hamlet

19906.6

An Unmarried Woman

19786.7

Mr. Frost

19906.2

Evelyn

20026.5

The Dog It Was That Died

19895.0

The Running Man

19636.7

Georgy Girl

19666.2

The Go-Between

19716.8

The Shout

19786.0

The Rose

19796.7

A Prayer for the Dying

19875.9

The Statement

20035.7

Far from the Madding Crowd

19676.9

102 Boulevard Haussmann

19907.5

Dr. M

19904.8

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Quartet

19815.8

The Wicked Lady

19835.0

The Making of Gosford Park

20025.3

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

19677.0

King of Hearts

19667.0

Britannia Hospital

19826.2

The Caretaker

19647.4

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

19747.0

Duet for One

19865.4

Whistle Down the Wind

19617.2

Second Best

19725.0

The Fixer

19686.2

Separate Tables

19836.6

Lionpower from MGM

19676.3

The Return of the Soldier

19836.3

Royal Flash

19755.8

An Englishman Abroad

19836.1

Very Like a Whale

19815.0

The Prince and the Pauper

20006.4

The Entertainer

19606.2

The Cherry Orchard

19995.0

Bertie and Elizabeth

20026.4

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father

20205.8

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

19846.1

We Think the World of You

19886.4

Nijinsky

19804.9

A Kind of Loving

19627.1

Silent Tongue

19944.7

The Collection

19764.4

Uncontrollable Circumstances

19896.2

Impossible Object

19734.8

Hands Up!

19855.6

The Grotesque

19955.4

Pack of Lies

19876.8

Meanwhile

20037.0

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

20005.0

Secret Friends

19913.9

Hard Times

19947.7

Nothing But the Best

19646.1

Anthony Quinn: The Final Words

20017.0

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

19724.4

Hollywood North

20045.1

Once Upon a Tractor

19656.0

Unnatural Pursuits

1992

Look at Life: All in a Day's Work

1969

Plaintiffs and Defendants

19758.5

Three Sisters

19704.3

Nicholas’ Gift

19985.0

A Voyage Round My Father

19847.4

Butley

19746.7

Shuttlecock

19933.5

In Celebration

19755.2

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

202510.0

Losing Track

19927.0

One for the Road

1985

The Trespasser

19818.0

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska

1988

Two Sundays

19754.0