Alan Bates

Actor

Born: February 17, 1934
Died: December 27, 2003 (age 69)
From: Allestree, Derbyshire, England

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,…

Filmography (82)

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025)
Archive
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father (2020)
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
Claudius (archive footage)
Spartacus (2004)
Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North (2004)
Michael Baytes
The Statement (2003)
Armand Bertier
Meanwhile (2003)
Father Peter
Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
Self (archive footage)
Evelyn (2002)
Thomas Connolly
The Making of Gosford Park (2002)
Self
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
King George V
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park (2001)
Jennings
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words (2001)
Self
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
Re Enrico VIII
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift (1998)
Reg Green
The Grotesque (1995)
Sir Hugo Coal
Hard Times (1994)
Josiah Bounderby
Silent Tongue (1994)
Eamon McCree
Shuttlecock (1993)
Major James Prentis VC
Losing Track (1992)
Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits (1992)
Hamish Partt
Secret Friends (1991)
John
Hamlet (1990)
Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990)
Marcel Proust
Dr. M (1990)
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru