FrameThrower · Actors · Alan Bates
Alan Bates
4 films · 227 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–2002
Born 17 February 1934 · Allestree, Derbyshire, England · died 27 December 2003
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his tour-de-force with Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 227 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–2002
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play2002
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1973
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor2001
- Knight Bachelor
How their films are shot
Measured across 227 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 64% of their frames are day, 59% natural — the look of the work Alan takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 227 frames from Alan Bates's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.