Alan Bates

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A Kind of Loving (1962): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. June Ritchie, Alan Bates; A key film of the British New Wave, describing in unfussy black–and–white images the life of young couple June Ritchie and Alan Bates…
Caretaker, The (1963): Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw; Praised film adaptation of Harold Pinter's breakthrough stageplay, in which two brothers invite a tramp into their London flat – an act of…
Whistle Down the Wind (1964): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Alan Bates, Hayley Mills; Alan Bates plays an escaped convict who Hayley Mills meets and believes to be Jesus himself. Unsentimental yet moving account of childhood faith…
Nothing but the Best (1964): Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews; Ruthless real estate agent Alan Bates grubs and grafts a way upwards, out of his working–class background and into the snobbish…
Zorba the Greek (1964): Dir. Michael Cacoyannis
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas; Keynote role for Anthony Quinn as the title–character of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, a bawdy, womanising,…
Georgy Girl (1966): Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling…; Quaint comedy in which 'ugly duckling' Lynn Redgrave strives for happiness alongside her flamboyant friends. Its casual depiction of abortion made…
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp…; Pastoral, moody epic set in 18th Century England follows the romantic intrigues of an independent woman farmer with three men. Photography by Nic…
King of Hearts (1967): Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur; Excellently quirky mid–60s comedy that became a cult–hit in the US, has soldier Alan Bates infiltrate a French village in WWI, which has…
Women in Love (1969): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson; Ken Russell's esteemed version of D.H. Lawrence's finest novel about a macho entrepreneur, his philosophically and sexually dubious friend and their…
American Film Theatre - Three Sisters (1970): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright…; Three sisters stuck in the Russian provinces pine for distant Moscow in this comprehensively faithful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's famous 19th…
Go-Between, The (1971): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Julie Christie, Alan Bates; A young boy acts as a secret messenger for class–divided lovers Julie Christie and Alan Bates during a hot Norfolk summer in Edwardian England.…
Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972): Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman; Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…; A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
American Film Theatre - Butley (1976): Dir. Harold Pinter
Feat. Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan…; Another in the excellent American Film Theatre series, playwright Harold Pinter directs his first film, based on the Simon Gray play. An…
Shout, The (1978): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York…; An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
Mayor of Casterbridge, The (1978): Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Bates, Anna Massey, Anne Stallybrass…; Dennis Potter–scribed Victorian saga sees Alan Bates, battling alcoholism, sell his wife and daughter under the influence, before resolving to…
An Unmarried Woman (1978): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy…; Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992): Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales…; An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett. Collection includes: – A Day Out…
Return of the Solider, The (1982): Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret…; Alan Bates stars as a returning WWI soldier rendered catatonic by the horrors of the battlefield, with no memory of his wife. Somewhat overwrought…
Voyage Round My Father, A (1983): Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates; Laurence Olivier gives another special performance as Alan Bates' eccentric father who steadfastly refuses to accept compromises on account of his…
Prayer for the Dying (1987): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates…; Adaptation of Jack Higgins' novel in which Mickey Rourke plays a retired IRA hitman who is enticed into one final killing, with disasterous…
We Think the World of You (1988): Dir. Collin Gregg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Alan Bates; Quirky Brit comedy/drama about a love triangle between two men and an alsatian! Jealousy overcomes Gary Oldman when a prison sentence brings together…
Club Extinction (Dr. M) (1989): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas…; Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Hamlet (1990): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates…; Mel Gibson pulls off a creditable lead performance as the melancholy Dane, certainly aided by the director's eye for detail, and top supporting…
Silent Tongue (1993): Dir. Sam Shepard
Feat. Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix; A personal project for playwright/actor/director Shepard, this ghost story chiefly indicts the mistreatment of the native Indian. Haunting film…
Grotesque, The (1995): Dir. John-Paul Davidson
Feat. Alan Bates, Sting; Bizarre, upper–crust English comedy has a suave, veritably oily Sting as butler to crank palaeontologist Alan Bates and his ghastly family.…
Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series) (1995): Feat. Alan Bates, Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson; BBC oddity centered around Oliver (Bates), an ex–university lecturer with a passion for puzzles, who goes on a search to find legendary…
Cherry Orchard, The (1999): Dir. Michael Cacoyannis
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Michael Gough…; Anton Chekhov's final drama is adapted concisely and with emotional weight; Charlotte Rampling plays the matriarch of a deteriorating estate, at odds…
Arabian Nights (Mini-Series) (2000): Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Jason Scott Lee, Rufus Sewell, Mili Avital…; Visually stunning retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, in which a mad Sultan weds his childhood friend, planning to execute her the following…
Prince and the Pauper, The (2000): Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Alan Bates; Admirable, entertaining adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story of lookalikes who get caught up in imperial intrigue when a young Prince and a…

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