Alan Bates

Known for ActingBorn 1934-02-17Died 2003-12-27Allestree, Derbyshire, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

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

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Plaintiffs and Defendants

Love in a Cold Climate

Unnatural Pursuits

The Trespasser

Discovering Hamlet

102 Boulevard Haussmann

A Voyage Round My Father

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Zorba the Greek

Screen One

The Caretaker

Spartacus

Meanwhile

Anthony Quinn: The Final Words

Screen Two

Nothing Like a Dame

Losing Track

Gosford Park

Whistle Down the Wind

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Arabian Nights

Laurence Olivier Presents

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

Spartacus

A Kind of Loving

Bertie and Elizabeth

Pack of Lies

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

King of Hearts

An Unmarried Woman

Far from the Madding Crowd

The Go-Between

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hamlet

Butley

The Rose

Separate Tables

Evelyn

The Sum of All Fears

The Prince and the Pauper

The Running Man

We Think the World of You

Women in Love

The Mothman Prophecies

In the Beginning

Uncontrollable Circumstances