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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 Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Claudius (archive footage)
as Antonius Agrippa
as Michael Baytes
as Armand Bertier
as Father Peter
as Self (archive footage)
as Thomas Connolly
as Self
as King George V
as Dressler
as Alexander Leek
as Jennings
as Re Enrico VIII
as Calpornius
as Gayev
as Reg Green
as Sir Hugo Coal
as Eamon McCree
as Major James Prentis VC
as Henry Sitchell
as Hamish Partt
as John
as Claudius
as Marcel Proust
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
as Felix Detweiler
as Malcolm Forrest
as Blair
as Frank Meadows
as John Fabian
as Jack Meehan
as Stewart
as David Cornwallis
as Nicholas
as Self (1981 footage)
as Dr. Alfred Jones
as John Mortimer
as Guy Burgess
as Captain Jerry Jackson
as Captain Chris Baldry
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
as Macready
as H.J. Heidler
as Siegmund
as Sir Jock Mellor
as Sergei Diaghilev
as Rudge Campbell
as Charles Crossley
as Saul Kaplan
as James
as Charles
as Peter
as Rudi Von Sternberg
as Andrew Shaw
as Narrator (voice)
as Ben Butley
as Harry
as Tom
as Ted Burgess
as Col. Vershinin
as Rupert Birkin
as Yakov Bok
as Gabriel Oak
as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Charles Plumpick
as Jos Jones
as Joe Turrel
as Basil
as Jimmy Brewster
as Mick
as Stephen
as Victor 'Vic' Brown
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
as Frank Rice
