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Movies starring Alan Bates have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Whistle Down the Wind - released in 1961 - is Alan Bates's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 67 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Alan Bates is Dr. M - released in 1990 - with a score of 38% based on 1 reviews.
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his tour-de-force with Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him 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. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
Alan Bates has acted in films with Malcolm McDowell, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and Maggie Smith.
Alan Bates has worked with these film directors: John Schlesinger, Mihalis Kakogiannis, Sam Shepard and Andrei Konchalovsky.
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