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Acting

Alan Bates

Career: Active from 1960 to 2025, with a break from 2005 to 2019, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 64
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: The Go-Between
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 55 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Alan Bates Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Adrenaline
3.7, average 4.8
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 12
Political Intrigue 7
Social Commentary 7
Literary Adaptation 6
Historical Drama 5
Character-Driven 5
Moral Ambiguity 4
Slow Burn 4
Psychological Tension 4
Class Conflict 4
Psychological Drama 3
Family Drama 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

90

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

as Archive

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father

as Major James Prentis (archival footage)

2010s

1 title

Discovering Hamlet

as Claudius (archive footage)

2000s

16 titles · average score 60

Spartacus

68

TV show · as Antonius Agrippa

Spartacus

66

as Antonius Agrippa

The Statement

36

as Armand Bertier

The Sum of All Fears

55

as Dressler

The Mothman Prophecies

56

as Alexander Leek

Bertie and Elizabeth

65

as King George V

Evelyn

64

as Thomas Connolly

Love in a Cold Climate

75

TV show · as Uncle Matthew

Arabian Nights

70

TV show · as Storyteller

The Prince and the Pauper

65

as Re Enrico VIII

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

54

as Calpornius

In the Beginning

62

TV show · as Jethro

1990s

15 titles · average score 55

The Cherry Orchard

45

as Gayev

Nicholas’ Gift

63

as Reg Green

Oliver's Travels

71

TV show · as Oliver

The Grotesque

46

as Sir Hugo Coal

Hard Times

64

TV show · as Josiah Bounderby

Silent Tongue

43

as Eamon McCree

Shuttlecock

as Major James Prentis VC

Unnatural Pursuits

TV show · as Hamish Partt

Hamlet

69

as Claudius

Dr. M

49

as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru

Mr. Frost

47

as Felix Detweiler

102 Boulevard Haussmann

as Marcel Proust

1980s

23 titles · average score 62

The Dog It Was That Died

as Blair

We Think the World of You

66

as Frank Meadows

A Prayer for the Dying

54

as Jack Meehan

Duet for One

74

as David Cornwallis

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

65

as Dr. Alfred Jones

A Voyage Round My Father

73

as John Mortimer

Separate Tables

70

as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock

The Wicked Lady

45

as Captain Jerry Jackson

An Englishman Abroad

67

as Guy Burgess

Quartet

53

as H.J. Heidler

Very Like a Whale

as Sir Jock Mellor

Nijinsky

49

as Sergei Diaghilev

1970s

17 titles · average score 65

The Rose

71

as Rudge Campbell

An Unmarried Woman

77

as Saul Kaplan

The Shout

74

as Charles Crossley

The Mayor of Casterbridge

72

TV show · as Michael Henchard

The Collection

58

as James

Royal Flash

55

as Rudi Von Sternberg

In Celebration

65

as Andrew Shaw

Butley

66

as Ben Butley

Impossible Object

49

as Harry

Second Best

as Tom

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

61

as Bri

The Go-Between

86

as Ted Burgess

1960s

14 titles · average score 70

Women in Love

77

as Rupert Birkin

The Fixer

59

as Yakov Bok

Far from the Madding Crowd

66

as Gabriel Oak

King of Hearts

73

as Charles Plumpick

Georgy Girl

74

as Jos Jones

Once Upon a Tractor

as Joe Turrel

Zorba the Greek

78

as Basil

Nothing But the Best

62

as Jimmy Brewster

The Caretaker

72

as Mick

The Running Man

65

as Stephen

A Kind of Loving

72

as Victor 'Vic' Brown

Whistle Down the Wind

85

as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey

1950s

2 titles · average score 76

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Lewis Black / Mario

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Stewart