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