Michael Bates
Actor/Actriz
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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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Como Actor/Actriz
The Saint
Joe
BBC Play of the Month
Professor Godbole
Theatre 625
Shpichelsky
Last of the Summer Wine
Cyril Blamire
La naranja mecánica
Chief Guard
The Wednesday Play
Joe
No Hiding Place
ITV Playhouse
Mr. Ambekar
Sunday Night Theatre
Starveling
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Sandstream
Ivanhoe
Will The Simple
Public Eye
George
Man in a Suitcase
Delacroix
Budgie
Minces Nutty
La caída de las águilas
Von Ludendorff
Patton
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Jason King
La batalla de Inglaterra
Warrant Officer Warwick
Frenesí
DS Spearman
Cilla
Self
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Rangi Ram
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Fred
The Four Just Men
Corporal Bates
Ooh La La!
Vatelin
Mi amigo el diablo
Inspector Clarke
Male of the Species
Fred
Six Dates with Barker
Gasman
Dunkirk
Froome
The Misfit
Sgt. Wilfreds
The Spanish Gardener
Consular Official (uncredited)