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Michael Hammond Bates
Michael Bates
Acting
Biography
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Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared in Richard III and All's Well That End's Well. In 1956 he appeared in Hotel Paradiso which starred Alec Guinness, at the Winter Garden Theatre in London.
He appeared in many UK television series inclu…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
as Narrator
Gulliver's Travels
as (voice)
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
as Madman
No Sex Please - We're British
as Mr. Arnold Needham
Frenzy
as DS Spearman
The Stone Tape
as Eddie Holmes
A Clockwork Orange
as Chief Guard
The Fox Trot
as Arthur
Patton
as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Every Home Should Have One
as Magistrate
TV Shows
Fall of Eagles
as Von Ludendorff · 2 ep.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
as Rangi Ram · 56 ep.
Last of the Summer Wine
as Cyril Blamire · 14 ep.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sandstream · 1 ep.
Budgie
as Minces Nutty · 1 ep.
Jason King
1 ep.
Six Dates with Barker
as Gasman · 1 ep.
The Misfit
as Sgt. Wilfreds · 1 ep.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Fred · 1 ep.
Male of the Species
as Fred · 1 ep.
