Michael Bates

Personal Info

Birthday

December 4, 1920

Day of Death

1978-01-11

(57 years old)

Place of Birth

Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)

Also Known As

Michael Hammond Bates

Michael 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 Alec Guinness, at the Winter Garden Theatre in London.

Known For

Last of the Summer Wine

The Saint

BBC Play of the Month

Man in a Suitcase

The Wednesday Play

A Clockwork Orange

Budgie

Public Eye

Filmography

1978
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
as Narrator
1977
Gulliver's Travels
as (voice)
1976
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
as Madman
1973
No Sex Please: We're British
as Mr. Arnold Needham
1972
The Stone Tape
as Eddie Holmes
Frenzy
as Sergeant Spearman
1971
A Clockwork Orange
as Chief Guard
The Fox Trot
as Arthur
1970
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Mr. Spimm
Every Home Should Have One
as Magistrate
Patton
as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
1969
Arthur? Arthur!
as Mr. Harrington
Battle of Britain
as Warrant Officer Warwick
Sling Your Hook
as Joe
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Drunk Lance Corporal
1968
Hammerhead
as Andreas / Sir Richard
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
as Dr. Spink
Salt & Pepper
as Inspector Crabbe
The Brahmin Widow
as Mr. Ambekar
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
as Mr. McGregor
1967
Bedazzled
as Inspector Clarke
1966
Macready's Gala
as Mike MacFarland
1965
A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
1959
I'm All Right Jack
as Bootle
1958
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Starveling
Dunkirk
as Froome
1956
The Spanish Gardener
as Consular Official (uncredited)
1955
Quay South
as Captain Alan Gerald
1954
Carrington V.C.
as Major Broke-Smith
The Stratford Adventure
as Self