Alan Bates

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.

Filmography (101 Appearances)

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

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father

Nothing Like a Dame

Discovering Hamlet

Spartacus

Spartacus

Hollywood North

The Statement

Celebrity Naked Ambition

Meanwhile

Salem Witch Trials

Evelyn

The Making of Gosford Park

Bertie and Elizabeth

The Sum of All Fears

The Mothman Prophecies

Gosford Park

Love in a Cold Climate

Anthony Quinn: The Final Words

The Prince and the Pauper

In the Beginning

Arabian Nights

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

The Cherry Orchard

Nicholas’ Gift

The Grotesque

Oliver's Travels

Hard Times

Hard Times

Silent Tongue

Shuttlecock

Unnatural Pursuits

Losing Track

Unnatural Pursuits

Pebble Mill

Secret Friends

Hamlet

102 Boulevard Haussmann

Dr. M

Mr. Frost

Screen One

Uncontrollable Circumstances

The Dog It Was That Died

We Think the World of You

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska

A Prayer for the Dying

Pack of Lies

Duet for One

One for the Road

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Hands Up!

Screen Two

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

A Voyage Round My Father

An Englishman Abroad

The Wicked Lady

The Return of the Soldier

Separate Tables

Britannia Hospital

Quartet

The Trespasser

Very Like a Whale

Nijinsky

The Rose

The Shout

An Unmarried Woman

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Laurence Olivier Presents

The Collection

Two Sundays

Plaintiffs and Defendants

Royal Flash

In Celebration

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

Butley

Impossible Object

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Second Best

The Go-Between

Great Performances

Three Sisters

Women in Love

Look at Life: All in a Day's Work

The Fixer

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Lionpower from MGM

King of Hearts

Georgy Girl

Once Upon a Tractor

Zorba the Greek

The Wednesday Play

Nothing But the Best

The Caretaker

The Running Man

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

A Kind of Loving

Whistle Down the Wind

The Entertainer

Armchair Theatre

Hallmark Hall of Fame

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