The Sum of All Fears2002
As Dressler
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Alan Bates
Born
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 (82)
Gosford Park2001
As Jennings
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Mothman Prophecies2002
As Alexander Leek
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Spartacus2004
As Antonius Agrippa
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Zorba the Greek1964
As Basil
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Hamlet1990
As Claudius
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Celebrity Naked Ambition2003
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Women in Love1969
As Rupert Birkin
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Second Best1972
As Tom
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Dr. M1990
As Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
TMDb 4.7 / 10
An Unmarried Woman1978
As Saul Kaplan
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Statement2003
As Armand Bertier
TMDb 5.7 / 10
A Prayer for the Dying1987
As Jack Meehan
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Wicked Lady1983
As Captain Jerry Jackson
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Georgy Girl1966
As Jos Jones
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Evelyn2002
As Thomas Connolly
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Mr. Frost1990
As Felix Detweiler
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Shout1978
As Charles Crossley
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Go-Between1971
As Ted Burgess
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Rose1979
As Rudge Campbell
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Quartet1981
As H.J. Heidler
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Far from the Madding Crowd1967
As Gabriel Oak
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Silent Tongue1994
As Eamon McCree
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Nothing Like a Dame2018
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Britannia Hospital1982
As Macready
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Nothing But the Best1964
As Jimmy Brewster
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Separate Tables1983
As John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Duet for One1986
As David Cornwallis
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Royal Flash1975
As Rudi Von Sternberg
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Cherry Orchard1999
As Gayev
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Lionpower from MGM1967
As Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Running Man1963
As Stephen
TMDb 6.7 / 10
King of Hearts1966
As Charles Plumpick
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Fixer1968
As Yakov Bok
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Uncontrollable Circumstances1989
As Malcolm Forrest
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Whistle Down the Wind1961
As The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father2020
As Major James Prentis (archival footage)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Meanwhile2003
As Father Peter
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Losing Track1992
As Henry Sitchell
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Prince and the Pauper2000
As Re Enrico VIII
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Bertie and Elizabeth2002
As King George V
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Hollywood North2004
As Michael Baytes
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Nicholas’ Gift1998
As Reg Green
TMDb 5.0 / 10
A Kind of Loving1962
As Victor 'Vic' Brown
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Collection1976
As James
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Hands Up!1985
As Self (1981 footage)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Entertainer1960
As Frank Rice
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Pack of Lies1987
As Stewart
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Story of Jacob and Joseph1974
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Grotesque1995
As Sir Hugo Coal
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Very Like a Whale1981
As Sir Jock Mellor
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Secret Friends1991
As John
TMDb 3.9 / 10
102 Boulevard Haussmann1990
As Marcel Proust
TMDb 7.5 / 10
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg1972
As Bri
TMDb 4.4 / 10
The Dog It Was That Died1989
As Blair
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Return of the Soldier1983
As Captain Chris Baldry
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Three Sisters1970
As Col. Vershinin
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Impossible Object1973
As Harry
TMDb 4.7 / 10
The Caretaker1964
As Mick
TMDb 7.4 / 10
In Celebration1975
As Andrew Shaw
TMDb 5.2 / 10
An Englishman Abroad1983
As Guy Burgess
TMDb 6.1 / 10
We Think the World of You1988
As Frank Meadows
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Hard Times1994
As Josiah Bounderby
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd1967
As Himself
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Butley1974
As Ben Butley
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Nijinsky1980
As Sergei Diaghilev
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Discovering Hamlet2011
As Claudius (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Dr. Fischer of Geneva1984
As Dr. Alfred Jones
TMDb 6.1 / 10
A Voyage Round My Father1984
As John Mortimer
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Trespasser1981
As Siegmund
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Making of Gosford Park2002
As Self
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Once Upon a Tractor1965
As Joe Turrel
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska1988
As John Fabian
Unnatural Pursuits1992
As Hamish Partt
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend2000
As Calpornius
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Plaintiffs and Defendants1975
As Peter
TMDb 8.5 / 10
One for the Road1985
As Nicholas
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders2025
As Archive
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Shuttlecock1993
As Major James Prentis VC
TMDb 3.5 / 10
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work1969
As Self
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words2001
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Two Sundays
Two Sundays1975
As Charles
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb