Michael Bates

Actor

Born: December 4, 1920
Died: January 11, 1978 (age 57)
From: Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared…

Filmography (31)

Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook (1978)
Narrator
Gulliver's Travels (1977)
(voice)
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)
Madman
No Sex Please - We're British (1973)
Mr. Arnold Needham
The Stone Tape (1972)
Eddie Holmes
Frenzy (1972)
DS Spearman
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Chief Guard
The Fox Trot (1971)
Arthur
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Mr. Spimm
Every Home Should Have One (1970)
Magistrate
Patton (1970)
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
Mr. Harrington
Battle of Britain (1969)
Warrant Officer Warwick
Sling Your Hook (1969)
Joe
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Drunk Lance Corporal
Male of the Species (1969)
Fred
Hammerhead (1968)
Andreas / Sir Richard
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Dr. Spink
Salt & Pepper (1968)
Inspector Crabbe
The Brahmin Widow
The Brahmin Widow (1968)
Mr. Ambekar
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Mr. McGregor
Bedazzled (1967)
Inspector Clarke
Macready's Gala (1966)
Mike MacFarland
A Passage to India (1965)
Professor Godbole
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Bootle
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1958)
Starveling
Dunkirk (1958)
Froome
The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Consular Official (uncredited)
Quay South (1955)
Captain Alan Gerald
Carrington V.C. (1954)
Major Broke-Smith