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