Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind Of Loving. He was also a highly respected stage actor who often appeared in the plays of John Osborne and Harold Pinter, as well as older classics such as the works of Anton Chekhov.
He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Fixer, for which he received 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.
Alan Bates on TV Tropes:
- The Entertainer (1960) as Frank Rice
- Whistle Down the Wind (1961) as The Man
- Zorba the Greek (1964) as Basil
- Georgy Girl (1966) as Jos Jones
- King of Hearts (1966) as Le Soldat Charles Plumpick
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) as Gabriel Oak
- The Fixer (1968) as Yakov Bok
- Women in Love (1969) as Rupert Birkin
- Three Sisters (1970) as Colonel Vershinin
- The Go-Between (1971) as Ted Burgess
- An Unmarried Woman (1978) as Saul Kaplan
- The Shout (1978) as Charles Crossley
- The Rose (1979) as Rudge Campbell
- The Wicked Lady (1983) as Captain Jerry Jackson
- Mister Frost (1990) as Felix Detweiler
- Hamlet (1990) as Claudius
- Silent Tongue (1993) as Eamon McCree
- The Cherry Orchard (1999) as Leonid Andreievitch Gayev
- Gosford Park (2001) as Mr. Jennings
- The Mothman Prophecies (2002) as Alexander Leek
- Bertie and Elizabeth (2002) as King George V
- The Sum of All Fears (2002) as Richard Dressler
