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