Skip to content
EntityQ309160· pop 40· linked from 736 articles

Alan Bates

Sign in to save

Also known as Sir Alan Arthur Bates

English actor (1934–2003)

Person · Open Library

Works
12

Top works

  • Wide Awake
  • Career Change and Other Applications
  • Confessions of a Hypnotist
  • Naval Architect
  • UFOS - It's Time to Wake Up

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1965-06-05
americancomposerfilm composergameorchestralscore

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
585
Total plays
2,208

Tags

spoken word

Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was a British actor of stage, screen and television. Early life Bates was born in Allestree, Derby, Derbyshire, England on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three sons of Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a homemaker and a pianist, and Harold Arthur Bates, an insurance broker and a cellist. The family briefly moved to Mickleover, then returned to Allestree. Both of his parents were amateur musicians <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

via Last.fm · Alan Bates

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 75,933x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,600x

  3. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

    · 2013 · cited 34,830x

  4. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,208x

  5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,894x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Alan Arthur Bates , ( 1934-02-17 ) 17 February 1934, Allestree , Derby , England
Died
27 December 2003 (2003-12-27) (aged 69), London, England
Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1956–2003
Children
2, including Benedick

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Arthur
Family name
Bates
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Allestree
Place of death
City of Westminster
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
English language
Military branch
Royal Air Force
Image
Alan Bates.jpg
Work location
United Kingdom
Show 9 more facts
Commons category
Alan Bates
cause of death
pancreatic cancer
date of birth
1934-02-17
date of death
2003-12-27
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1956-00-00
birth name
Alan Arthur Bates
Commons gallery
Alan Bates
Sources (8)

via Wikidata · CC0

~14 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the kitchen sink drama A Kind of Loving.

Bates is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Fixer, for which he received 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Bates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.