Michael Bates
Birthday
1920/12/04
Day of death
1978/01/11 (57 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Also know as
Michael Hammond Bates
Biography
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 in Richard III and All's Well That End's Well. In 1956 he appeared in Hotel Paradiso which starred Al...Read more
Acting
(1971) A Clockwork Orange
as Chief Guard
(1970) Patton
as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
(1969) Oh! What a Lovely War
as Drunk Lance Corporal
(1969) Battle of Britain
as Warrant Officer Warwick
(1968) Salt & Pepper
as Inspector Crabbe
(1966) Macready's Gala
as Mike MacFarland
(1969) Sling Your Hook
as Joe
(1967) Bedazzled
as Inspector Clarke
(1954) The Stratford Adventure
as Self
(1968) Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
as Mr. McGregor
(1968) Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
as Dr. Spink
(1969) Arthur? Arthur!
as Mr. Harrington
(1978) Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
as Narrator
(1977) Gulliver's Travels
as (voice)
(1968) Hammerhead
as Andreas / Sir Richard
(1969) Male of the Species
as Fred
(1959) I'm All Right Jack
as Bootle
(1965) A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
(1968) The Brahmin Widow
as Mr. Ambekar
(1972) The Stone Tape
as Eddie Holmes
(1958) Dunkirk
as Froome
(1973) No Sex Please: We're British
as Mr. Needham
(1976) The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
as Madman
(1970) Every Home Should Have One
as Magistrate
(1971) The Fox Trot
as Arthur
(1972) Frenzy
as Sergeant Spearman
(1970) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Mr. Spimm
(1954) Carrington V.C.
as Major Broke-Smith
(1956) The Spanish Gardener
as Consular Official (uncredited)
(1955) Quay South
as Captain Alan Gerald
(1974) It Ain't Half Hot Mum
as Rangi Ram
(1971) Jason King
as ---
(1973) Last of the Summer Wine
as Cyril Blamire
(1962) The Saint
as Joe
(1971) Six Dates with Barker
as ---
(1958) Ivanhoe
as Will The Simple
(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sandstream
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1974) Fall of Eagles
as Von Ludendorff
(1967) Man in a Suitcase
as Delacroix
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Professor Godbole
(1963) The Dick Emery Show
as ---
(1964) Cluff
as ---
(1968) Cilla
as Self
(1969) Male of the Species
as Fred
(1968) Ooh La La!
as Vatelin
(1965) Public Eye
as George
(1964) The Wednesday Play
as Joe
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as ---
(1971) Budgie
as Minces Nutty
(1978) Curry Up Harry!
as Din