Alan Bates

Full filmography

• Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025) as Archive
• Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father (2020) as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
• Nothing Like a Dame (2018) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Discovering Hamlet (2011) as Claudius (archive footage)
• The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
• Spartacus (2004) as Antonius Agrippa
• Spartacus (2004) as Antonius Agrippa
• Hollywood North (2004) as Michael Baytes
• Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003) as Self (archive footage)
• Salem Witch Trials (2003) as Sir William Phips
• The Statement (2003) as Armand Bertier
• Meanwhile (2003) as Father Peter
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) as Dressler
• The Mothman Prophecies (2002) as Alexander Leek
• Evelyn (2002) as Thomas Connolly
• Bertie and Elizabeth (2002) as King George V
• The Making of Gosford Park (2002) as Self
• Gosford Park (2001) as Jennings
• Love in a Cold Climate (2001) as Uncle Matthew
• Anthony Quinn: The Final Words (2001) as Self
• Arabian Nights (2000) as Storyteller
• In the Beginning (2000) as Jethro
• The Prince and the Pauper (2000) as Re Enrico VIII
• St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000) as Calpornius
• The Cherry Orchard (1999) as Gayev
• Nicholas’ Gift (1998) as Reg Green
• The Grotesque (1995) as Sir Hugo Coal
• Oliver's Travels (1995) as Oliver
• Hard Times (1994) as Josiah Bounderby
• Hard Times (1994) as Josiah Bounderby
• Silent Tongue (1994) as Eamon McCree
• Shuttlecock (1993) as Major James Prentis VC
• Unnatural Pursuits (1992) as Hamish Partt
• Unnatural Pursuits (1992) as Hamish Partt
• Losing Track (1992) as Henry Sitchell
• Pebble Mill (1991) as Self
• Secret Friends (1991) as John
• Dr. M (1990) as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
• Hamlet (1990) as Claudius
• 102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990) as Marcel Proust
• Mister Frost (1990) as Felix Detweiler
• Screen One (1989) as Henry Sitchell
• The Dog It Was That Died (1989) as Blair
• Uncontrollable Circumstances (1989) as Malcolm Forrest
• We Think the World of You (1988) as Frank Meadows
• The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska (1988) as John Fabian
• A Prayer for the Dying (1987) as Jack Meehan
• Pack of Lies (1987) as Stewart
• Duet for One (1986) as David Cornwallis
• Screen Two (1985) as Marcel Proust
• The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) as John Fabian
• Hands Up! (1985) as Self (1981 footage)
• One for the Road (1985) as Nicholas
• A Voyage Round My Father (1984) as John Mortimer
• Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984) as Dr. Alfred Jones
• The Wicked Lady (1983) as Captain Jerry Jackson
• Separate Tables (1983) as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
• An Englishman Abroad (1983) as Guy Burgess
• The Return of the Soldier (1983) as Captain Chris Baldry
• Britannia Hospital (1982) as Macready
• Quartet (1981) as H.J. Heidler
• Very Like a Whale (1981) as Sir Jock Mellor
• The Trespasser (1981) as Siegmund
• Nijinsky (1980) as Sergei Diaghilev
• The Rose (1979) as Rudge Campbell
• An Unmarried Woman (1978) as Saul Kaplan
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) as Michael Henchard
• The Shout (1978) as Charles Crossley
• Laurence Olivier Presents (1976)
• The Collection (1976) as James
• Plaintiffs and Defendants (1975) as Peter
• Royal Flash (1975) as Rudi Von Sternberg
• In Celebration (1975) as Andrew Shaw
• Two Sundays (1975) as Charles
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) as Narrator (voice)
• Butley (1974) as Ben Butley
• Impossible Object (1973) as Harry
• Second Best (1972) as Tom
• Second Best (1972) Producer
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) as Bri
• Great Performances (1971) as James
• The Go-Between (1971) as Ted Burgess
• Three Sisters (1970) as Col. Vershinin
• Women in Love (1969) as Rupert Birkin
• Look at Life: All in a Day's Work (1969) as Self
• The Fixer (1968) as Yakov Bok
• Lionpower from MGM (1967) as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) as Gabriel Oak
• Location: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) as Himself
• King of Hearts (1966) as Charles Plumpick
• Georgy Girl (1966) as Jos Jones
• Once Upon a Tractor (1965) as Joe Turrel
• The Wednesday Play (1964) as Grigor Pecharin
• Zorba the Greek (1964) as Basil
• The Caretaker (1964) as Mick
• Nothing But the Best (1964) as Jimmy Brewster
• The Running Man (1963) as Stephen
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
• A Kind of Loving (1962) as Victor 'Vic' Brown
• Whistle Down the Wind (1961) as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
• The Entertainer (1960) as Frank Rice
• Armchair Theatre (1956) as Lewis Black
• Armchair Theatre (1956) as Mario
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Stewart