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Michael Bates
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Michael Bates

1920 – 1978 · Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India) · Active 1950–1978

​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. He appeared in many UK television series inclu...

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

1971 ★ 7.9
as Chief Guard

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

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Filmography

62 credits
1970s 19 credits
1978
Movie ★ 7.0
1977
Movie ★ 5.6
1976
Movie ★ 3.5
1974
TV ★ 7.4
1974
Fall of Eagles as Von Ludendorff
TV ★ 7.0
1973
No Sex Please - We're British as Mr. Arnold Needham
Movie ★ 5.2
1973
Last of the Summer Wine as Cyril Blamire
TV ★ 7.1
1972
The Stone Tape as Eddie Holmes
Movie ★ 6.0
1972
Frenzy as DS Spearman
Movie ★ 7.1
1971
Movie ★ 8.2
1971
The Fox Trot as Arthur
Movie ★ 9.0
1971
TV ★ 7.8
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Colonel Sandstream
TV ★ 7.5
1971
Budgie as Minces Nutty
TV ★ 7.2
1971
TV ★ 7.4
1970
Patton as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Movie ★ 7.5
1970
Movie ★ 4.9
1970
Movie ★ 6.0
1970
The Misfit as Sgt. Wilfreds
TV ★ 9.0
1960s 31 credits
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War as Drunk Lance Corporal
Movie ★ 6.7
1969
Battle of Britain as Warrant Officer Warwick
Movie ★ 6.9
1969
Movie ★ 8.0
1969
Arthur? Arthur! as Mr. Harrington
Movie ★ 3.8
1969
Movie ★ 5.5
1969
TV ★ 4.0
1969
TV ★ 7.0
1969
TV ★ 7.0
1968
Salt & Pepper as Inspector Crabbe
Movie ★ 5.3
1968
Movie ★ 5.8
1968
Movie ★ 6.7
1968
Hammerhead as Andreas / Sir Richard
Movie ★ 5.7
1968
The Brahmin Widow as Mr. Ambekar
Movie
1968
Cilla as Self
TV ★ 8.0
1968
Ooh La La! as Vatelin
TV ★ 10.0
1967
Bedazzled as Inspector Clarke
Movie ★ 6.2
1967
Man in a Suitcase as Delacroix
TV ★ 7.2
1967
ITV Playhouse as Mr. Ambekar
TV ★ 7.0
1967
ITV Playhouse as Harold Radcliff
TV ★ 7.0
1966
Macready's Gala as Mike MacFarland
Movie ★ 7.0
1965
A Passage to India as Professor Godbole
Movie ★ 8.0
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Professor Godbole
TV ★ 5.3
1965
Public Eye as George
TV ★ 8.2
1964
Cluff as Inspector Mole
TV
1964
TV ★ 5.2
1964
Theatre 625 as Shpichelsky
TV ★ 7.2
1964
TV
1964
The Wednesday Play as Mike MacFarland
TV ★ 5.2
1964
TV ★ 5.2
1963
TV ★ 8.0
1962
TV ★ 7.4
1950s 12 credits
1959
Movie ★ 6.6
1959
TV ★ 4.8
1959
The Four Just Men as Corporal Bates
TV ★ 7.7
1958
Dunkirk as Froome
Movie ★ 6.9
1958
Movie ★ 7.0
1958
Ivanhoe as Will The Simple
TV ★ 6.4
1956
The Spanish Gardener as Consular Official (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.3
1956
TV ★ 6.0
1955
Quay South as Captain Alan Gerald
Movie
1954
Movie ★ 6.2
1954
Carrington V.C. as Major Broke-Smith
Movie ★ 6.1
1950
TV ★ 3.5