Alan BatesFilmography

The Statement

Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, William Hutt

Synopsis: A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers on both sides of the law in this drama, based on the novel by Brian Moore and inspired by a true story. After France fell to German occupation during World War II, the Read More

Salem Witch Trials

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Gloria Reuben, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: In the tradition of Arthur Miller's McCarthy-era play The Crucible, this two-part TV dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials was heavily influenced by the present-day political scene. Rev. Parris (Henry Czerny), spiritual leader of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, needs a unifying issue to end the Read More

Hollywood North

Actors: Matthew Modine, Alan Bates, Deborah Kara Unger, John Neville, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Candian filmmaker Peter O'Brian directs the comedy Hollywood North, set in Toronto during the late '70s. Matthew Modine stars as Bobby Mayers, a stressed-out Canadian producer trying to make an action film called "Flight to Bogota." The production is inevitably troubled by numerous problems with Read More

Evelyn

Actors: John Lynch, Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, Sophie Vavasseur, Alan Bates

Synopsis: One man takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children in this drama, based on a true story. In 1953, Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) was a house painter and decorator who, despite a strong work ethic, had a hard time holding on to steady Read More

The Sum of All Fears

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical Read More

The Mothman Prophecies

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Debra Messing, Lucinda Jenney, Alan Bates

Synopsis: Based on a book by paranormal investigator John Keel, this spooky, X-Files-type supernatural thriller is purportedly based loosely on true events that occurred in the small town of Point Pleasant, WV, in 1966-1967. Richard Gere stars as journalist John Klein, an up-and-coming reporter devastated Read More

Spying Game: Cloak & Dagger

Spying Game: Tools of the Trade

Spying Game: To Catch a Spy

Bertie & Elizabeth

Actors: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards

Synopsis: The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in 1920, when the then-Duke of York Albert (James Wilby), known affectionately as Bertie, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton (Juliet Aubrey Read More

Gosford Park

Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British Read More

Love in a Cold Climate

Actors: Megan Dodds, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Alan Bates, Rosamund Pike, Celia Imrie

Synopsis: The first British TV version of Nancy Mitford's autobiographical novel Love in a Cold Climate was telecast in seven hour-long installments in 1980. This 2001 version attempted to crystallize Mitford's long and labyrinthine narrative into a mere 150 minutes, and for the most part it succeeded. Set Read More

In the Beginning

Actors: Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg), Esau (Andrew Grainger), and Jacob Read More

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Synopsis: This film covers St. Patrick's early life and the 30 years he later spent preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland. Actors Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Susannah York, and Patrick Bergin breathe life into this remarkable man's story. Viewers will learn how St. Patrick left behind his early pagan Read More

Arabian Nights

Actors: Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, Alan Bates, Jason Scott Lee, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale A Thousand and One Nights, a woman discovers the ability to spin a good yarn is literally a matter of life and death. Schahriar (Dougray Scott), a powerful sultan who rules Bagdad, has developed a bitterness and distrust of women ever since he Read More

The Cherry Orchard

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Owen Teale, Frances de la Tour

Synopsis: Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton Chekhov, set in 1900. Lyubov Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) left Russia to escape troubling memories of the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Read More

Nicholas' Gift

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates, Gene Wexler, Hallie Kate Eisenberg

Synopsis: In 1994, an American family made international headlines when, during a trip to Italy, their son was shot in the head by bandits. Left brain dead with no hope of recovery, the grieving parents made a great sacrifice and offered Italian surgeons the opportunity to harvest the boy's usable organs Read More

Oliver's Travels

Actors: Sinéad Cusack, Alan Bates, Mollie Sugden, Bill Paterson, Miles Anderson

Synopsis: The title character in this five-part British miniseries was a university lecturer (Alan Bates) with a fondness for anagrams and crossword puzzles. Laid off from his academic job, Oliver embarks upon a search for Aristotle, his favorite crossword compiler and creator of the intellectual game Read More

The Grotesque

Actors: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting

Synopsis: The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an unusual and perversely entertaining spin on the classic tea-cup-and-intrigue mystery. Sir Hugo Coal (Alan Bates) is a grumpy, eccentric English gentleman (and Read More

Silent Tongue

Actors: Alan Bates, Richard Harris, Dermot Mulroney, River Phoenix, Sheila Tousey, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: Playwright Sam Shepard wrote and directed this bizarre combination of western film revisionism and Greek tragedy. Silent Tongue (Tantoo Cardinal) is a mute Kiowa who is raped by Eamon McCree (Alan Bates), the owner of the Kickapoo Traveling Medicine Show. Eamon attempts to make up for his crime by Read More

Hard Times

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The difficult realities of life in Britain during the early Industrial Age are explored in this made-for-television adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. Thomas Gradgrind (Bob Peck) is a schoolteacher working in Coketown, a grim industrial town in the North of England, who believes that Read More

Secret Friends

Actors: Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Frances Barber, Tony Doyle, Joanna David

Synopsis: During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Potter viewed John as "a victim Read More

Unnatural Pursuits

Actors: Alan Bates, Bob Balaban, Sara Mansfield

Synopsis: Alan Bates stars as Hamish Partt an alcoholic writer in the made-for-TV Unnatural Pursuits. Simon Gray's teleplay contrives to have Partt begin singing boisterously whenever confronted by a crisis. This occurs quite often as the playwright follows the progress of his latest work, from rehearsal to Read More

Shuttlecock

Actors: Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson, Kenneth Haigh

Synopsis: From her vantage point as a neighbor, nightclub singer Lina (Liane Hielscher) observes and comments (through her act) on the complex tangle of romantic attractions which center on the offices of a psychiatrist (Christian Phillips) who lives and works in the hothouse climate of Southern California. Read More

102 Boulevard Haussmann

Actors: Alan Bates, Janet McTeer

Synopsis: Marcel Proust, the toast of die-hard conoisseurs of difficult (but brilliant) literature everywhere, is famous for his unbelievably detailed memoirs, A la recherche des temps perdus. He was a sickly, reclusive man who lived very much under the thumb of his beloved but overbearing mother. It is Read More

Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father Read More

Docteur M.

Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly Read More

Force Majeure

Actors: Patrick Bruel, François Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alan Bates, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: Force Majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances) begins with a drug deal involving tourists Phillipe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel (Francois Cluzet), and a Dutch stranger. Two years pass: the Dutchman has been arrested in an unspecified Asian country, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death. Read More

We Think the World of You

Actors: Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Max Wall, Liz Smith, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Set in sexually repressive 1950's London, We Think the World of You features actor Alan Bates as Frank, a gay middle-aged businessman whose lover Johnny (Gary Oldman) is married and in jail for burglary. While Johnny (Oldman) is behind bars, his beloved German shepard Evie becomes the center of a Read More

Dog It Was That Died

A Prayer for the Dying

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis, Christopher Fulford, Liam Neeson

Synopsis: A man struggling to escape the political unrest of Northern Ireland finds that his violent past still follows him in this drama. Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) is a terrorist with the Irish Republican Army who, while attempting to blow up a British military transport, accidentally bombs a bus full Read More

Pack of Lies

Actors: Alan Bates, Daniel Benzali, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: Adapted from the one-act play by Hugh Whitemore, Pack of Lies originally aired as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on April 26, 1987. Emmy-nominated Ellen Burstyn plays a Canadian housewife living in England, who dutifully allows a government agent (Alan Bates) into her house. The agent sets Read More

Duet for One

Actors: Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Margaret Courtenay

Synopsis: Julie Andrews delivers a virtuoso dramatic performance in Duet for One. Based on a play by Tom Kempinski, the story concerns brilliant concert violinist Stephanie Anderson (Andrews) who is slowly succumbing to the ravages of multiple sclerosis. Stephanie's problems are compounded by her cheating Read More

Trespasser

Synopsis: After an artist ruins his marriage by having an affair, he slowly realizes what he has done in this drama based on a novel by D.H. Lawrence. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Voyage' Round My Father

Actors: Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known for his Rumpole of the Bailey stories, has fashioned an unexpurgated but affectionate portrait of his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer, played by Sir Read More

The Wicked Lady

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales

Synopsis: Faye Dunaway stars in Michael Winner's labored re-make of the 1945 swashbuckler, which was co-scripted by Leslie Arliss, the original director of the 1945 film. Dunaway is Lady Barbara Skelton, a lady of the royal class, who becomes a highway robber, taking up with Captain Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates Read More

Separate Tables

Actors: Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Julie Christie, Irene Worth

Synopsis: British filmmaker John Schlesinger directs Separate Tables, a made-for-cable TV version of the Terence Rattigan plays Table By the Window and Table Number Seven. This 50-minute adaptation features Julie Christie and Alan Bates, each in a dual role. Set in a sleepy British town, a group of Read More

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Actors: Alan Bates, James Mason, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Burden, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors contain one of two things--one million dollars Read More

An Englishman Abroad

Actors: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Harold Innocent, Vernon Dobtcheff

Synopsis: The BBC-produced An Englishman Abroad was first offered to American viewers October 27, 1984, as part of PBS' Great Performances series. Alan Bates stars as Guy Burgess, the infamous British diplomat who spied for the Russians in the 1950s. Alan Bennett's teleplay re-creates the 1958 chance Read More

The Return of the Soldier

Actors: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret, Ian Holm

Synopsis: The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to take advantage of his memory loss. But both Christie Read More

Britannia Hospital

Actors: Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a visit by the Queen Mother, only to face every problem imaginable. Britannia Hospital clearly attempts to recapture the anarchic bite of director Lindsay Anderson's previous Read More

Very Like a Whale

Quartet

Actors: Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Daniel Chatto

Synopsis: No relation to the 1949 Somerset Maugham "omnibus" film of the same name, 1981's Quartet is based on the roman a clef by Jean Rhys. Though the names are changed, it is clearly the story of Rhys' romance with Ford Maddox Ford in 1920s Paris. The titular quartet consists of novelist Isabelle Adjani Read More

Nijinsky

Actors: Alan Bates, George de la Pena, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel, Carla Fracci, Janet Suzman

Synopsis: The deeper, broader issues behind the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest ballet dancers and choreographers, Vaslav Nijinksy (1888-1950), is not at the fulcrum of this two-hour British biographical drama. Director Herbert Ross and screenwriter Hugh Wheeler base the film on Nijinsky's Read More

Executive Syndrome

The Rose

Actors: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of performing by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save Read More

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Synopsis: Originally telecast by the BBC from January 22 to March 5, 1978, The Mayor of Casterbridge was a seven-part adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy. Alan Bates played the title character, Michael Henchard, the wealthy and popular mayor of the Wessex community of Casterbridge. Things had not always Read More

The Shout

Actors: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry

Synopsis: An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was for some reason invited to dinner. Once at the Read More

An Unmarried Woman

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn

Synopsis: A New York wife learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark 1970s "woman's film." Unlike her dysfunctional friends, vibrant Erica (Jill Clayburgh) seems to have it all: a nice Upper East Side home, a well-adjusted teenage daughter (Lisa Lucas), a job at a Soho art gallery, and a Read More

The Collection

Synopsis: Listed variously as a 1975 and 1978 release (it was actually produced in 1976), The Collection is a videotaped staging of the play by Harold Pinter. Described by one observer as the theatrical equivalent to a musical chamber work, this production stars Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren Read More

Royal Flash

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland

Synopsis: Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on one of the books in his "Harry Flashman" series, loose sequels to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" that followed that story's central bully character through his checkered Read More

In Celebration

Actors: Alan Bates, James Bolam, Brian Cox, Constance Chapman, Gabrielle Daye

Synopsis: One of the more cinematic entries in the mid-1970s American Film Theatre series, In Celebration is adapted from the play by David Storey. Lindsay Anderson, who directed the original stage version, reassembles his cast for this filmization. Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox play Andrew Read More

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

Actors: Harry Andrews, Herschel Bernardi, Tony Lo Bianco, Colleen Dewhurst, Julian Glover, Keith Michell

Synopsis: The made-for-television movie The Story of Jacob and Joseph tells the Biblical tale of Jacob (Keith Michell) and Esau (Julian Glover), who spend 20 years fighting over their birthright. They eventually reconcile and sell their younger brother, Joseph (Victor LoBianco) into slavery. Joseph is taken Read More

Butley

Actors: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features an astonishing performance Read More

Impossible Object

Actors: Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Evans Evans, Lea Massari, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: Story of a Love Story may well be the least-known of John Frankenheimer's films. Filmed in France, the story concerns highly imaginative author Alan Bates. Though happily married, Bates enters into an affair with Dominique Sanda. Somehow, the whole experience seems unreal. Could Sanda be merely a Read More

The Go-Between

Actors: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough

Synopsis: The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael Read More

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Actors: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson

Synopsis: The plight of an English couple struggling to raise a disabled child is given a darkly humorous treatment in this English comedy. Based on the successful stage play by Peter Nichols, the film centers on the parents of Jo, nicknamed "Joe Egg," a mentally challenged invalid subject to violent Read More

Three Sisters

Actors: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Pumell, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their dream of returning to Moscow in director Laurence Olivier's 1970 film version of Three Sisters than they did in Chekhov's original 1900 play. This melancholy classic about Read More

Women in Love

Actors: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron

Synopsis: Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) make the acquaintance of lifelong friends Gerald (Oliver Reed) and Rupert (Alan Bates). The foursome attends a picnic in honor of a pair of newlyweds, who Read More

The Fixer

Actors: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a poor but educated Jew, Yakov Bok (Alan Bates) is abandoned by his wife Raisl (Carol White). Yakov decides to leave his small village and travel to Kiev. Since it is the time Read More

Rece do Góry

Actors: Bogumil Kobiela, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Joanna Szczerbic, Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directed Hands Up in 1967; he also wrote it, handled the art direction, and played a leading role. Skolimowski portrays Andrzej Leszcyzc, one of several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted Read More

Far From the Madding Crowd

Actors: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Prunella Ransome

Synopsis: This 1967 version of Thomas Hardy's novel should have done better at the box office than it did, given the star power of Julie Christie and the visual and aural fidelity to its source material. Julie Christie plays Bathsheba Everdene, a country heiress who is loved by three different men: Terence Stamp Read More

King of Hearts

Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More

Georgy Girl

Actors: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Kempson

Synopsis: Georgy Girl is a bittersweet comedy drama about Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), a slightly overweight, working-class virgin in her early twenties who shares an apartment with the gorgeous, promiscuous Meredith (Charlotte Rampling). Georgy has never been the subject of the desire for any man until the Read More

Zorba the Greek

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova, Georges Foundas

Synopsis: If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the Greek. The scene is the isle of Crete, where English writer Alan Bates arrives in the hopes of realigning his own values and outlook on life. He is "adopted" by the Read More

Nothing But the Best

Actors: Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin, Godfrey Quigley

Synopsis: In the tradition of Kind Hearts and Coronets (49), Nothing But the Best is a sparkling British "comedy of murders." Alan Bates stars as a lowly real estate clerk who wants to crash the British upper class. To that end, Bates hires down-and-out gentleman Denholm Elliott to "train" him for the Read More

The Running Man

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner of a small air transport company who is believed to have drowned in a recent glider accident. It soon turns out, however, that Black is very much alive; he faked his death Read More

The Caretaker

Actors: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw

Synopsis: The Guest is a filmed adaptation of the Harold Pinter play of the same name. Donald Pleasence plays a laconic tramp, who is invited to stay in the home of Robert Shaw, on the implied promise that he, Pleasence, will be hired as caretaker. Shaw's off-in-the-coop brother Alan Bates is delighted to Read More

A Kind of Loving

Actors: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer, James Bolam, Leonard Rossiter, Gwen Nelson

Synopsis: This well-wrought romance takes place in Lancashire, England in an industrial area where Vic (Alan Bates) and Ingrid (June Ritchie) work in the same factory. He is a draftsman who wants only a physical relationship with the woman of his choice (Ingrid), and she is a typist who wants true love with Read More

Whistle Down the Wind

Actors: Hayley Mills, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird, Diane Clare, Patricia Heneghan, Elsie Wagstaffe

Synopsis: Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by Hayley Mills, Diane Holgate, and Alan Barnes, come across a bearded vagrant named Arthur Blakey (Alan Bates) sleeping in their barn. Upon awakening, the ill-tempered bum Read More

The Entertainer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit Read More