Alan Bates

Highest Rated:
100% Whistle Down the Wind (1962)
Lowest Rated:
20% Mister Frost (1990)
Birthday:
Feb 17, 1934
Birthplace:
Allestree, Derbyshire, England, UK
Bio:
Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22,…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 20% - 100%
Number of Movies: 70
Box Office Since 2001: $196.9M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2009 Prince and the Pauper
  • Actor
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2007 67% Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson
  • Actor
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2005 86% Zorba the Greek
  • Basil
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2004 Spartacus
  • Agrippa
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2003 24% The Statement
  • Bertier
$0.5M
2003 44% Hollywood North
  • Actor
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2003 Salem Witch Trials
  • Governor Sir William Phip
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2002 Bertie & Elizabeth
  • King George VI
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2002 65% Evelyn
  • Thomas Connolly
$1.3M
2002 59% The Sum of All Fears
  • Richard Dressler
$118.5M
2001 Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
  • Actor
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2001 86% Gosford Park
  • Jennings
$41.3M
2001 Nicholas' Gift
  • Actor
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2001 Love in a Cold Climate
  • Matthew Radlett
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2001 53% The Mothman Prophecies
  • Alexander Leek
$35.2M
2000 St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
  • Actor
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2000 In the Beginning
  • Jethro
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2000 Arabian Nights
  • Actor
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1999 54% The Cherry Orchard
  • Leonid Gaev
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1998 Force majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances)
  • Malcolm Forrest
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1998 Nicholas' Gift
  • Actor
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1997 Grave Indiscretion
  • Actor
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1997 Oliver's Travels
  • Actor
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1995 The Grotesque (Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets) (Grave Indiscretion)
  • Sir Hugo Coal
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1995 Oliver's Travels
  • Actor
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1994 Silent Tongue
  • Eamon McCree
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1994 Hard Times
  • Josiah Bounderby
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1991 Englishman Abroad
  • Actor
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1991 Unnatural Pursuits
  • Actor
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1990 76% Hamlet
  • Director
  • Claudius
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1990 20% Mister Frost
  • Actor
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1989 40% Mr. Frost
  • Inspector Felix Detweiler
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1989 Dr. M
  • Guru/Dr. Marsfeldt
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1988 We Think The World Of You
  • Frank Meadows
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1987 63% A Prayer For The Dying
  • Jack Meehan
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1987 Pack of Lies
  • Stewart
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1986 Duet for One
  • David Cornwallis
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1985 The Return of the Soldier
  • Actor
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1985 Trespasser
  • Actor
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1984 A Voyage Round My Father
  • Son
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1983 Separate Tables
  • Major Pollock
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1983 The Wicked Lady
  • Jerry Jackson
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1982 Return of the Soldier
  • Capt. Chris Baldry
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1982 60% Britannia Hospital
  • Actor
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1981 Hands Up! (Rece do góry)
  • Actor
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1981 Quartet
  • H.J. Heidler
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1980 40% Nijinsky
  • Sergei Diaghilev
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1979 80% The Rose
  • Rudge
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1978 The Shout
  • Charles Crossley
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1978 87% An Unmarried Woman
  • Saul Kaplan
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1975 In Celebration
  • Andrew Shaw
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1975 Royal Flash
  • Rudi Von Sternberg
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1974 Butley
  • Ben Butley
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1974 Story of Jacob and Joseph
  • Actor
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1974 Story of a Love Story
  • Actor
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1971 The Go-Between
  • Ted Burgess
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1971 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  • Bri
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1970 The Three Sisters
  • Vershinin
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1970 American Film Theatre - Bundle
  • Actor
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1969 91% Women In Love
  • Rupert Birkin
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1968 67% The Fixer
  • Yakov Bok
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1967 50% Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Gabriel Oak
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1966 90% Georgy Girl
  • Jos
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1966 91% Le Roi de coeur (King Of Hearts)
  • Pvt. Charles Plumpick
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1964 Nothing But the Best
  • Jimmy Brewster
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1963 The Running Man
  • Stephen Maddox
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1963 The Caretaker (The Guest)
  • Mick
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1962 A Kind of Loving
  • Vic Brown
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1962 100% Whistle Down the Wind
  • Arthur Blakey the Man
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1960 89% The Entertainer
  • Frank Rice
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Quotes from Alan Bates's Characters

    1. Alexander Leek: You're more advanced than a cockroach. Have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them?
    From The Mothman Prophecies. Submitted by Jason B (10 months ago)
    1. Basil: I don't want any trouble.
    2. Alexis Zorba: Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
    From Zorba the Greek. Submitted by Dusan D (19 months ago)
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