Michael Bates
Also known as Michael Hammond Bates
British actor (1920–1978)
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- Ghosts of Time
- 3 by Three
- Keeping Up
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Acting · Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared…
Known for
- Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook — Narrator1978
- Gulliver's Travels — (voice)1977
- The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones — Madman1976
- It Ain't Half Hot Mum — Rangi Ram1974
- Fall of Eagles — Von Ludendorff1974
- No Sex Please - We're British — Mr. Arnold Needham1973
- Last of the Summer Wine — Cyril Blamire1973
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1920 births1978 deaths20th-century English male actorsAlumni of St Catharine's College, CambridgeBritish Indian Army officersConservative Party (UK) peopleDeaths from cancer in EnglandEnglish male film actorsEnglish male television actorsIndian Army personnel of World War IIMale actors from British IndiaPeople educated at Uppingham School