Michael Bates
Acting
Born December 4, 1920 · Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
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. He appeared in many UK television series inclu…
Known For · 40 titles
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625
The Saint
The Wednesday Play
ITV Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Last of the Summer Wine
No Hiding Place
Sunday Night Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
A Clockwork Orange
Public Eye
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Thursday Theatre
Man in a Suitcase
Cilla
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Jason King
Budgie
Ivanhoe
Fall of Eagles
Ooh La La!
Patton
The Four Just Men
The Misfit
Battle of Britain
Cluff
Frenzy
Six Dates with Barker
Armchair Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
Bedazzled
Male of the Species
Dunkirk
No Sex Please - We're British
I'm All Right Jack
Every Home Should Have One
Salt & Pepper
The Brahmin Widow
Male of the Species