Alan Bates: movies and TV shows
Alan Bates has 104 credits in the archive: 83 films and 21 TV series, from 1951 to 2025. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2025 · busiest year: 2002 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders | Archive | Film | 10.0 | 91 |
| 2020 | Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father | Major James Prentis (archival footage) | Film | 5.8 | 86 |
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 84 |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Claudius (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 77 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 73 |
| 2004 | Spartacus | Antonius Agrippa | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2004 | Spartacus | Antonius Agrippa | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2004 | Hollywood North | Michael Baytes | Film | 5.1 | 70 |
| 2003 | Celebrity Naked Ambition | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 69 |
| 2003 | Salem Witch Trials | Sir William Phips | TV | 5.0 | 69 |
| 2003 | The Statement | Armand Bertier | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2003 | Meanwhile | Father Peter | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Dressler | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Mothman Prophecies | Alexander Leek | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 2002 | Evelyn | Thomas Connolly | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth | King George V | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford Park | Self | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Jennings | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 2001 | Love in a Cold Climate | Uncle Matthew | TV | 7.9 | 67 |
| 2001 | Anthony Quinn: The Final Words | Self | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2000 | Arabian Nights | Storyteller | TV | 6.8 | 66 |
| 2000 | In the Beginning | Jethro | TV | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2000 | The Prince and the Pauper | Re Enrico VIII | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 2000 | St. Patrick: The Irish Legend | Calpornius | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 1999 | The Cherry Orchard | Gayev | Film | 5.0 | 65 |
| 1998 | Nicholas’ Gift | Reg Green | Film | 5.0 | 64 |
| 1995 | The Grotesque | Sir Hugo Coal | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 1995 | Oliver's Travels | Oliver | TV | 6.0 | 61 |
| 1994 | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby | TV | — | 60 |
| 1994 | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby | Film | 7.7 | 60 |
| 1994 | Silent Tongue | Eamon McCree | Film | 4.7 | 60 |
| 1993 | Shuttlecock | Major James Prentis VC | Film | 3.5 | 59 |
| 1992 | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt | TV | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1992 | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt | Film | — | 58 |
| 1992 | Losing Track | Henry Sitchell | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self | TV | 4.1 | 57 |
| 1991 | Secret Friends | John | Film | 3.9 | 57 |
| 1990 | Dr. M | Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru | Film | 4.8 | 56 |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Claudius | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 1990 | 102 Boulevard Haussmann | Marcel Proust | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1990 | Mister Frost | Felix Detweiler | Film | 6.2 | 56 |
| 1989 | Screen One | Henry Sitchell | TV | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1989 | The Dog It Was That Died | Blair | Film | 5.0 | 55 |
| 1989 | Uncontrollable Circumstances | Malcolm Forrest | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1988 | We Think the World of You | Frank Meadows | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1988 | The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska | John Fabian | Film | — | 54 |
| 1987 | A Prayer for the Dying | Jack Meehan | Film | 5.9 | 53 |
| 1987 | Pack of Lies | Stewart | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 1986 | Duet for One | David Cornwallis | Film | 5.4 | 52 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Marcel Proust | TV | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1985 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | John Fabian | TV | 6.9 | 51 |
| 1985 | Hands Up! | Self (1981 footage) | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1985 | One for the Road | Nicholas | Film | — | 51 |
| 1984 | A Voyage Round My Father | John Mortimer | Film | 7.4 | 50 |
| 1984 | Dr. Fischer of Geneva | Dr. Alfred Jones | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 1983 | The Wicked Lady | Captain Jerry Jackson | Film | 5.0 | 49 |
| 1983 | Separate Tables | John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1983 | An Englishman Abroad | Guy Burgess | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Captain Chris Baldry | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1982 | Britannia Hospital | Macready | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 1981 | Quartet | H.J. Heidler | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1981 | Very Like a Whale | Sir Jock Mellor | Film | 5.0 | 47 |
| 1981 | The Trespasser | Siegmund | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1980 | Nijinsky | Sergei Diaghilev | Film | 4.9 | 46 |
| 1979 | The Rose | Rudge Campbell | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Saul Kaplan | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1978 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Michael Henchard | TV | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1978 | The Shout | Charles Crossley | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1976 | Laurence Olivier Presents | TV | 7.0 | 42 | |
| 1976 | The Collection | James | Film | 4.8 | 42 |
| 1975 | Plaintiffs and Defendants | Peter | Film | 8.5 | 41 |
| 1975 | Royal Flash | Rudi Von Sternberg | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1975 | In Celebration | Andrew Shaw | Film | 5.2 | 41 |
| 1975 | Two Sundays | Charles | Film | 4.0 | 41 |
| 1974 | The Story of Jacob and Joseph | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1974 | Butley | Ben Butley | Film | 6.7 | 40 |
| 1973 | Impossible Object | Harry | Film | 4.8 | 39 |
| 1972 | Second Best | Tom | Film | 5.0 | 38 |
| 1972 | Second Best | Film | 5.0 | 38 | |
| 1972 | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Bri | Film | 4.4 | 38 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | James | TV | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1971 | The Go-Between | Ted Burgess | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1970 | Three Sisters | Col. Vershinin | Film | 4.3 | 36 |
| 1969 | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1969 | Look at Life: All in a Day's Work | Self | Film | — | 35 |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Yakov Bok | Film | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1967 | Lionpower from MGM | Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1967 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Gabriel Oak | Film | 6.9 | 33 |
| 1967 | Location: Far from the Madding Crowd | Himself | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1966 | King of Hearts | Charles Plumpick | Film | 6.9 | 32 |
| 1966 | Georgy Girl | Jos Jones | Film | 6.2 | 32 |
| 1965 | Once Upon a Tractor | Joe Turrel | Film | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Grigor Pecharin | TV | 5.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | Zorba the Greek | Basil | Film | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1964 | The Caretaker | Mick | Film | 7.4 | 30 |
| 1964 | Nothing But the Best | Jimmy Brewster | Film | 6.1 | 30 |
| 1963 | The Running Man | Stephen | Film | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1962 | A Kind of Loving | Victor 'Vic' Brown | Film | 7.1 | 28 |
| 1961 | Whistle Down the Wind | The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey | Film | 7.2 | 27 |
| 1960 | The Entertainer | Frank Rice | Film | 6.2 | 26 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Lewis Black | TV | 6.0 | 22 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Mario | TV | 6.0 | 22 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Stewart | TV | 8.8 | 17 |