Michael Bates
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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 including Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 1975 as Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others. His role as Rangi Ram caused some controversy as it required Bates to be made-up with fake tan to look like an Indian, which he took to naturally as he was born in India and spoke the Hindi language fluently. On radio he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series The Navy Lark. These were: Able Seaman Ginger, Lt. Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre and Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchison.
Bates' film roles include Battle of Britain (1969) as Warrant Officer Warwick, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as a Lance-corporal, Patton (1970) as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (to whom he bore a striking resemblance), Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock, and the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). On stage, he did Shakespeare at Stratford and the Old Vic and made a big impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. He died of cancer in Cambridge, aged 57.
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Fotos
Películas (31)
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
1978 · Narrator
Gulliver's Travels
1977 · (voice)
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976 · Madman
No Sex Please - We're British
1973 · Mr. Arnold Needham
The Stone Tape
1972 · Eddie Holmes
Frenzy
1972 · DS Spearman
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Chief Guard
The Fox Trot
1971 · Arthur
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970 · Mr. Spimm
Every Home Should Have One
1970 · Magistrate
Patton
1970 · Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Arthur? Arthur!
1969 · Mr. Harrington
Battle of Britain
1969 · Warrant Officer Warwick
Sling Your Hook
1969 · Joe
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Drunk Lance Corporal
Male of the Species
1969 · Fred
Hammerhead
1968 · Andreas / Sir Richard
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968 · Dr. Spink
Salt & Pepper
1968 · Inspector Crabbe
The Brahmin Widow
1968 · Mr. Ambekar
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968 · Mr. McGregor
Bedazzled
1967 · Inspector Clarke
Macready's Gala
1966 · Mike MacFarland
A Passage to India
1965 · Professor Godbole
I'm All Right Jack
1959 · Bootle
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958 · Starveling
Dunkirk
1958 · Froome
The Spanish Gardener
1956 · Consular Official (uncredited)
Quay South
1955 · Captain Alan Gerald
Carrington V.C.
1954 · Major Broke-Smith
The Stratford Adventure
1954 · Self
Series (29)
Comedy Premiere
1975 · Reg Forrester
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Von Ludendorff
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
1974 · Rangi Ram
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Cyril Blamire
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Colonel Sandstream
Jason King
1971
Budgie
1971 · Minces Nutty
Six Dates with Barker
1971 · Gasman
The Misfit
1970 · Sgt. Wilfreds
Male of the Species
1969 · Fred
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Fred, George
Ooh La La!
1968 · Vatelin
Cilla
1968 · Self
Man in a Suitcase
1967 · Delacroix
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Mr. Ambekar, Harold Radcliff
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Professor Godbole
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Captain Gambell, Mr. Lightfoot
Public Eye
1965 · George
Thursday Theatre
1964 · Tommy
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Joe, Mike MacFarland, Tommy
Theatre 625
1964 · Shpichelsky
Cluff
1964 · Inspector Mole
The Dick Emery Show
1963
The Saint
1962 · Joe
The Four Just Men
1959 · Corporal Bates
No Hiding Place
1959 · Alec Peters
Ivanhoe
1958 · Will The Simple
Armchair Theatre
1956
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Starveling