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.
Acting
Movie
The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
2002
Movie
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
2002
Movie
Gosford Park
as Jennings
2001
Movie
Hamlet
as Claudius
1990
Movie
Zorba the Greek
as Basil
1964
TV
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Movie
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
1971
Movie
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
1979
Movie
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
1969
Movie
The Shout
as Charles Crossley
1978
Movie
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
2002
Movie
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
1987
Movie
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
1967
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Movie
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
1966
Movie
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
1978
Movie
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
2004
Movie
The Statement
as Armand Bertier
2003
Movie
Britannia Hospital
as Macready
1982
TV
Arabian Nights
as Storyteller
2000
Movie
A Kind of Loving
as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
1962
Movie
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Movie
Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
1961
Movie
The Entertainer
as Frank Rice
1960
