Alan Bates
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
as Dressler
Spartacus (2004)
as Antonius Agrippa
Gosford Park (2001)
as Jennings
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
as Alexander Leek
Women in Love (1969)
as Rupert Birkin
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
as Saul Kaplan
Dr. M (1990)
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Zorba the Greek (1964)
as Basil
Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Hamlet (1990)
as Claudius
Very Like a Whale (1981)
as Sir Jock Mellor
The Dog It Was That Died (1989)
as Blair
Separate Tables (1983)
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
as Jack Meehan
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
as Gabriel Oak
The Statement (2003)
as Armand Bertier
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Go-Between (1971)
as Ted Burgess
The Shout (1978)
as Charles Crossley
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
Evelyn (2002)
as Thomas Connolly
The Fixer (1968)
as Yakov Bok
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Macready
King of Hearts (1966)
as Charles Plumpick
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
as Self
The Rose (1979)
as Rudge Campbell
Mr. Frost (1990)
as Felix Detweiler
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
as King George V
Second Best (1972)
as Tom
The Running Man (1963)
as Stephen
A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Victor 'Vic' Brown
Royal Flash (1975)
as Rudi Von Sternberg
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father (2020)
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nijinsky (1980)
as Sergei Diaghilev
Georgy Girl (1966)
as Jos Jones
Quartet (1981)
as H.J. Heidler
The Wicked Lady (1983)
as Captain Jerry Jackson
102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990)
as Marcel Proust
Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
as Joe Turrel
Pack of Lies (1987)
as Stewart
The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
as Narrator (voice)
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as Captain Chris Baldry
Impossible Object (1973)
as Harry
Nothing But the Best (1964)
as Jimmy Brewster
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
as Bri
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984)
as Dr. Alfred Jones
Meanwhile (2003)
as Father Peter
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
as Re Enrico VIII
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
as John Mortimer
The Grotesque (1995)
as Sir Hugo Coal
Plaintiffs and Defendants (1975)
as Peter
The Making of Gosford Park (2002)
as Self
Secret Friends (1991)
as John
Duet for One (1986)
as David Cornwallis
The Collection (1976)
as James
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
as Calpornius
Nicholas’ Gift (1998)
as Reg Green
The Entertainer (1960)
as Frank Rice
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
as Claudius (archive footage)
The Cherry Orchard (1999)
as Gayev
Silent Tongue (1994)
as Eamon McCree
We Think the World of You (1988)
as Frank Meadows
Hollywood North (2004)
as Michael Baytes
Unnatural Pursuits (1992)
as Hamish Partt
Hands Up! (1985)
as Self (1981 footage)
Uncontrollable Circumstances (1989)
as Malcolm Forrest
The Caretaker (1964)
as Mick
Butley (1974)
as Ben Butley
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words (2001)
as Self
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025)
as Archive
One for the Road (1985)
as Nicholas
The Trespasser (1981)
as Siegmund
Three Sisters (1970)
as Col. Vershinin
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
as Guy Burgess
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work (1969)
as Self
In Celebration (1975)
as Andrew Shaw
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska (1988)
as John Fabian
Shuttlecock (1993)
as Major James Prentis VC
Losing Track (1992)
as Henry Sitchell
Two Sundays (1975)
as Charles