Alan Bates
Actor
Biography
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
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek 2002
Gosford Park
as Jennings 2001
Hamlet
as Claudius 1990
Zorba the Greek
as Basil 1964
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess 1971
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin 1969
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell 1979
The Shout
as Charles Crossley 1978
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly 2002
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan 1987
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak 1967
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick 1966
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa 2004
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan 1978
The Statement
as Armand Bertier 2003
Britannia Hospital
as Macready 1982