1920-12-04 ( 104 years old ) in Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
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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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Movies
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
1978-01-01
Gulliver's Travels
1977-05-06
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976-08-01
No Sex Please: We're British
1973-07-25
The Stone Tape
1972-12-25
Frenzy
1972-05-25
A Clockwork Orange
1971-12-19
The Fox Trot
1971-04-29
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12
Every Home Should Have One
1970-03-05
Patton
1970-01-25
Arthur? Arthur!
1969-10-01
Battle of Britain
1969-09-15
Sling Your Hook
1969-04-02
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969-03-10
Male of the Species
1969-01-03
Hammerhead
1968-09-11
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968-07-12
Salt & Pepper
1968-07-03
The Brahmin Widow
1968-04-08
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968-01-22
Bedazzled
1967-10-30
Macready's Gala
1966-03-02
A Passage to India
1965-11-16
I'm All Right Jack
1959-08-18
Dunkirk
1958-03-20
The Spanish Gardener
1956-12-25
Quay South
1955-12-10
Carrington V.C.
1954-12-09
The Stratford Adventure
1954-08-02
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