10.0
10.0
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
as Archive
Alan Bates
Acting
Born:February 17, 1934
Died:December 27, 2003(aged 69)
Birthplace:Allestree, Derbyshire, England
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CommunityBiography
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 (81 movies)
7.6
7.6
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
as John Mortimer
7.4
7.4
Zorba the Greek
1964
as Basil
7.2
7.2
The Caretaker
1964
as Mick
7.1
7.1
Whistle Down the Wind
1961
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
7.0
7.0
Plaintiffs and Defendants
1975
as Peter
7.0
7.0
A Kind of Loving
1962
as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
7.0
7.0
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Claudius (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Hard Times
1994
as Josiah Bounderby
6.9
6.9
King of Hearts
1966
as Charles Plumpick
6.9
6.9
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
as Gabriel Oak
6.8
6.8
The Go-Between
1971
as Ted Burgess
6.8
6.8
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
Spartacus
2004
as Antonius Agrippa
6.7
6.7
The Rose
1979
as Rudge Campbell
6.7
6.7
An Unmarried Woman
1978
as Saul Kaplan
6.6
6.6
Hamlet
1990
as Claudius
6.6
6.6
Pack of Lies
1987
as Stewart
6.5
6.5
Women in Love
1969
as Rupert Birkin
6.5
6.5
The Running Man
1963
as Stephen
6.4
6.4
The Sum of All Fears
2002
as Dressler
6.4
6.4
Evelyn
2002
as Thomas Connolly
6.3
6.3
We Think the World of You
1988
as Frank Meadows
6.2
6.2
The Entertainer
1960
as Frank Rice
6.2
6.2
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
as Alexander Leek
6.2
6.2
Separate Tables
1983
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
6.2
6.2
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Captain Chris Baldry
6.2
6.2
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
as Re Enrico VIII
6.2
6.2
Britannia Hospital
1982
as Macready
6.2
6.2
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
as Malcolm Forrest
6.2
6.2
Georgy Girl
1966
as Jos Jones
6.1
6.1
Salem Witch Trials
2002
as Sir William Phips
6.1
6.1
An Englishman Abroad
1983
as Guy Burgess
6.1
6.1
Mister Frost
1990
as Felix Detweiler
6.0
6.0
The Fixer
1968
as Yakov Bok
6.0
6.0
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
6.0
6.0
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
as Marcel Proust
6.0
6.0
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974
as Narrator (voice)
6.0
6.0
Butley
1974
as Ben Butley
5.9
5.9
The Shout
1978
as Charles Crossley
5.9
5.9
Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
as King George V
5.8
5.8
Royal Flash
1975
as Rudi Von Sternberg
5.8
5.8
Hands Up!
1985
as Self (1981 footage)
5.8
5.8
Nothing But the Best
1964
as Jimmy Brewster
5.8
5.8
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
as Jack Meehan
5.7
5.7
Quartet
1981
as H.J. Heidler
5.6
5.6
The Statement
2003
as Armand Bertier
5.6
5.6
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
as Dr. Alfred Jones
5.3
5.3
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
2000
as Calpornius
5.2
5.2
Duet for One
1986
as David Cornwallis
5.1
5.1
The Grotesque
1995
as Sir Hugo Coal
5.0
5.0
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
as Joe Turrel
5.0
5.0
Nicholas’ Gift
1998
as Reg Green
5.0
5.0
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
4.9
4.9
Hollywood North
2004
as Michael Baytes
4.8
4.8
Nijinsky
1980
as Sergei Diaghilev
4.8
4.8
In Celebration
1975
as Andrew Shaw
4.8
4.8
The Wicked Lady
1983
as Captain Jerry Jackson
4.6
4.6
Silent Tongue
1993
as Eamon McCree
4.5
4.5
Impossible Object
1973
as Harry
4.5
4.5
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.4
4.4
Dr. M
1990
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
4.3
4.3
The Cherry Orchard
1999
as Gayev
4.2
4.2
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
as Bri
4.0
4.0
The Collection
1976
as James
3.8
3.8
Three Sisters
1970
as Col. Vershinin
3.5
3.5
Secret Friends
1991
as John
3.0
3.0
Very Like a Whale
1981
as Sir Jock Mellor
2.3
2.3
Two Sundays
1975
as Charles
2.0
2.0
Shuttlecock
1993
as Major James Prentis VC
Losing Track
1992
as Henry Sitchell
The Trespasser
1981
as Siegmund
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
as Himself
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
1969
as Self
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
1988
as John Fabian
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
as Hamish Partt
One for the Road
1985
as Nicholas
The Dog It Was That Died
1989
as Blair
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
2001
as Self
Meanwhile
2003
as Father Peter
Second Best
1972
Producer
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