Michael Bates
Acting

Michael Bates

Born 4 December 1920 · Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India) · Died 11 January 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.

Known for

A Clockwork Orange
Patton
Frenzy
Battle of Britain
Bedazzled
I'm All Right Jack
Dunkirk
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Stone Tape
Last of the Summer Wine
Salt & Pepper
Gulliver's Travels
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
Gulliver's Travels
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
No Sex Please - We're British
The Stone Tape
Frenzy
A Clockwork Orange
The Fox Trot
Patton
Every Home Should Have One
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Oh! What a Lovely War
Battle of Britain
Sling Your Hook
Arthur? Arthur!
Male of the Species
Salt & Pepper
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Hammerhead
Bedazzled
Macready's Gala
A Passage to India
I'm All Right Jack
Dunkirk
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quay South
Carrington V.C.
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