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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.

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)

Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)

The Graham Norton Show
as Self

Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa

Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa

Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes

The Statement
as Armand Bertier

Meanwhile
as Father Peter

Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)

Salem Witch Trials
as Sir William Phips

Salem Witch Trials
as Sir William Phips

Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly

The Making of Gosford Park
as Self

Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George V

The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler

The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek

Gosford Park
as Jennings

Love in a Cold Climate
as Uncle Matthew

Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
as Self

The Prince and the Pauper
as Re Enrico VIII

In the Beginning
as Jethro

Arabian Nights
as Storyteller

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
as Calpornius

The Cherry Orchard
as Gayev

Nicholas’ Gift
as Reg Green

The Grotesque
as Sir Hugo Coal

Oliver's Travels
as Oliver

Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby

Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby

Silent Tongue
as Eamon McCree

Shuttlecock
as Major James Prentis VC

Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt

Losing Track
as Henry Sitchell

Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
Pebble Mill
as Self

Secret Friends
as John

Hamlet
as Claudius

102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Marcel Proust

Dr. M
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru

Mister Frost
as Felix Detweiler

Screen One
as Henry Sitchell

Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Malcolm Forrest

The Dog It Was That Died
as Blair

We Think the World of You
as Frank Meadows

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
as John Fabian

A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan

Pack of Lies
as Stewart

Duet for One
as David Cornwallis

One for the Road
as Nicholas

The Ray Bradbury Theater
as John Fabian

Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)

Screen Two
as Marcel Proust

Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Alfred Jones

A Voyage Round My Father
as John Mortimer

An Englishman Abroad
as Guy Burgess

The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson

The Return of the Soldier
as Captain Chris Baldry

Separate Tables
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock