Alan Bates — Actor (28)
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Discovering Hamlet (2011) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Discovering Hamlet
director: Philip Saville / Lyndy Saville actor: Gregory Doran / Jonathan Miller …
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
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Hamlet (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hamlet
director: Franco Zeffirelli actor: Mel Gibson / Glenn Close …
other title: Amleto / Hamlet, el honor de la venganza
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
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Nijinsky (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Nijinsky
director: Herbert Ross actor: Alan Bates / George De La Pena …
other title: Nijinski / Nijinsky, a sua História
A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
director: Peter Medak actor: Alan Bates / Janet Suzman …
other title: Joe Egg
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
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Georgy Girl (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Georgy Girl
director: Silvio Narizzano actor: Lynn Redgrave / James Mason …
other title: Georgy svegliati! / La soltera retozona …
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.
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The Running Man (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Running Man
director: Carol Reed actor: Laurence Harvey / Lee Remick …
other title: Un buon prezzo per morire / Der zweite Mann …
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Butley (1974) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Butley
director: Harold Pinter actor: Alan Bates / Jessica Tandy …
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
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An Englishman Abroad (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Englishman Abroad
director: John Schlesinger actor: Alan Bates / Coral Browne …
other title: Un inglese espatriato / Gentleman in Moskau
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
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The Fixer (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fixer
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Alan Bates / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: L'uomo di Kiev / Ein Mann wie Hiob …
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kyiv. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Britannia Hospital (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Britannia Hospital
director: Lindsay Anderson actor: Graham Crowden / Leonard Rossiter …
other title: Hospital Britannia
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
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The Entertainer (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Entertainer
director: Tony Richardson actor: Laurence Olivier / Brenda De Banzie …
other title: Gli sfasati / Der Komödiant …
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Whistle Down the Wind
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Hayley Mills / Bernard Lee …
other title: Também o Vento Tem Segredos / … woher der Wind weht …
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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Dr. M (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dr. M
director: Claude Chabrol actor: Alan Bates / Jennifer Beals …
other title: Doctor M. / Docteur M
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
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The Caretaker (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Caretaker
director: Clive Donner actor: Alan Bates / Donald Pleasence …
other title: The Caretaker - Il guardiano / O Encarregado …
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
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The Go-Between (1971) [Movie] TMDB
The Go-Between
director: Joseph Losey actor: Julie Christie / Alan Bates …
other title: Messaggero d'amore / O Mensageiro …
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Mothman Prophecies
director: Mark Pellington actor: Richard Gere / Laura Linney …
other title: The Mothman Prophecies - Voci dall'ombra / The Mothman - Mørkets Budbringer …
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
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Women in Love (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Women in Love
director: Ken Russell actor: Alan Bates / Oliver Reed …
other title: Donne in amore / Liebende Frauen …
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.