
Acting
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 W…

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)

Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa

Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes

The Statement
as Armand Bertier

Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)

Meanwhile
as Father Peter

The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler

The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 1 ep.

Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa · 2 ep.

Salem Witch Trials
as Sir William Phips · 2 ep.

Love in a Cold Climate
as Uncle Matthew · 2 ep.

Arabian Nights
as Storyteller · 2 ep.

In the Beginning
as Jethro · 2 ep.

Oliver's Travels
as Oliver · 5 ep.

Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby · 4 ep.

Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt · 2 ep.
Pebble Mill
as Self · 1 ep.
Hamlet
1990