Alan Bates

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Films

2004	Spartacus As Antonius Agrippa
2004	Hollywood North As Michael Baytes
2003	The Statement As Armand Bertier
2002	The Mothman Prophecies As Alexander Leek
2002	Bertie and Elizabeth As King George V
2001	Gosford Park As Jennings
2000	The Prince and the Pauper As Re Enrico VIII
2000	Arabian Nights As Storyteller
1995	The Grotesque As Sir Hugo Coal
1993	Silent Tongue As Eamon McCree
1991	Secret Friends As John
1990	Mister Frost As Felix Detweiler
1990	Hamlet As Claudius
1990	Dr. M As Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
1989	Force majeure As Malcolm Forrest
1988	We Think the World of You As Frank Meadows
1987	Duet for One As David Cornwallis
1987	A Prayer for the Dying As Jack Meehan
1985	One for the Road As
1984	A Voyage Round My Father As John Mortimer
1983	The Wicked Lady As Jerry Jackson
1983	Separate tables As John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
1983	An Englishman Abroad As Guy Burgess
1981	Quartet As H.J. Heidler
1980	Nijinsky As Sergei Diaghilev
1979	The Rose As Rudge Campbell
1978	The Shout As Crossley
1978	An Unmarried Woman As Saul
1976	The Collection As
1975	Royal Flash As Rudi Von Sternberg
1975	In Celebration As Andrew Shaw
1974	Butley As Ben Butley
1973	Story of a Love Story As Harry
1972	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg As Bri
1970	The Go-Between As Ted Burgess
1969	Women in Love As Rupert Birkin
1968	The Fixer As Yakov Bok
1967	Le roi de coeur As Charles Plumpick
1967	Far from the Madding Crowd As Gabriel Oak
1966	Georgy Girl As Jos Jones
1964	Nothing But the Best As Jimmy Brewster
1964	Alexis Zorbas As Basil
1963	The Running Man As Stephen
1963	The Caretaker As Mick
1962	Whistle Down the Wind As
1962	A Kind of Loving As Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
1960	The Entertainer As Frank Rice