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.
102 acting credits
Acting · 102
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Great Performances
1971
Screen Two
1985
Pebble Mill
1991
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Screen One
1989
Arabian Nights
2000
Gosford Park
2001
Spartacus
2004
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
In the Beginning
2000
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
Zorba the Greek
1964
Spartacus
2004
Armchair Theatre
1956
Hamlet
1990
Oliver's Travels
1995
Women in Love
1969
The Shout
1978
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
Hard Times
1994
Salem Witch Trials
2003
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1978
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Salem Witch Trials
2002
An Unmarried Woman
1978
The Rose
1979
The Go-Between
1971
Evelyn
2002
The Wicked Lady
1983
Britannia Hospital
1982
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
Royal Flash
1975
The Return of the Soldier
1983
The Statement
2003
Hard Times
1994
Georgy Girl
1966
Mister Frost
1990
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
Discovering Hamlet
2011
The Fixer
1968
The Cherry Orchard
1999
Nijinsky
1980
Silent Tongue
1994
The Running Man
1963
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020
The Caretaker
1964
Quartet
1981
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
Whistle Down the Wind
1961
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Secret Friends
1991
Duet for One
1986
We Think the World of You
1988
The Entertainer
1960
Pack of Lies
1987
The Grotesque
1995
The Dog It Was That Died
1989
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000
Shuttlecock
1993
Nicholas’ Gift
1998
An Englishman Abroad
1983
King of Hearts
1966
Three Sisters
1970
Dr. M
1990
Hollywood North
2004
Impossible Object
1973
Butley
1974
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
In Celebration
1975
A Kind of Loving
1962
Hands Up!
1985
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
Nothing But the Best
1964
Separate Tables
1983
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
The Collection
1976
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
Plaintiffs and Defendants
1975
Second Best
1972
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
1969
The Trespasser
1981
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
2001
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
Two Sundays
1975
Meanwhile
2003
Losing Track
1992
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988
Very Like a Whale
1981
One for the Road
1985
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025