Michael Bates
Born in Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India) — Dec 04 1920• Died Jan 11 1978
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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 app…
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The Saint
Joe
BBC Play of the Month
Professor Godbole
Theatre 625
Shpichelsky
Last of the Summer Wine
Cyril Blamire
Sunday Night Theatre
Starveling
No Hiding Place
The Wednesday Play
Joe
Public Eye
George
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Sandstream
A Clockwork Orange
Chief Guard
Budgie
Minces Nutty
Jason King
Fall of Eagles
Von Ludendorff
Frenzy
DS Spearman
Man in a Suitcase
Delacroix
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Rangi Ram
The Four Just Men
Corporal Bates
Cilla
Self
Ivanhoe
Will The Simple
Ooh La La!
Vatelin
The Misfit
Sgt. Wilfreds
ITV Playhouse
Mr. Ambekar
Patton
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Oh! What a Lovely War
Drunk Lance Corporal
Six Dates with Barker
Gasman
Battle of Britain
Warrant Officer Warwick
Armchair Theatre
Dunkirk
Froome
I'm All Right Jack
Bootle
Thursday Theatre
Tommy
Male of the Species
Fred
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Mr. Spimm
Salt & Pepper
Inspector Crabbe
Bedazzled
Inspector Clarke
Carrington V.C.
Major Broke-Smith
Every Home Should Have One
Magistrate
The Stone Tape
Eddie Holmes
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Dr. Spink
The Fox Trot
Arthur
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Mr. McGregor
No Sex Please - We're British
Mr. Arnold Needham
Gulliver's Travels
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Male of the Species
Fred
Hammerhead
Andreas / Sir Richard
Cluff
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Madman
Arthur? Arthur!
Mr. Harrington
The Spanish Gardener
Consular Official (uncredited)
The Stratford Adventure
Self
Macready's Gala
Mike MacFarland
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
Narrator
Quay South
Captain Alan Gerald
A Passage to India
Professor Godbole
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Starveling
Sling Your Hook
Joe
The Brahmin Widow
Mr. Ambekar
The Dick Emery Show