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Michael Hammond Bates [1] (4 December 1920 – 11 January 1978) [2] was a British actor born in India. He was best known for playing Chief Guard Barnes who processes Alex in A Clockwork Orange, Cyril Blamire in Last of the Summer Wine (1973–1975), and Rangi Ram in It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1977).
Ben Bard (1893–1974), actor, husband of actress Ruth Roland (unmarked grave) [2] Binnie Barnes (1903–1998), actress, wife of M.J. Frankovich [7] George Barris (1925–2015), designer and builder of various Hollywood custom cars; Jack Barry (1918–1984), television host and producer; Billy Barty (1924–2000), actor [2] [15] Florence Bates ...
Michael Bates was born in India and actually served as a Major with the Gurkhas in India. He was a Tory and a self-important know-it-all with upper-class aspirations, who often dissociated himself from the other two, especially Compo, as he considered himself superior to them. [ 3 ]
Michael Bates was a very funny actor ... and had great comic timing. Rather than race it was really about the class differences between the officer toffs and the sergeant major. [Bates's character] Randhi was like Bilko, he had the quick lines and I never felt that he was taking the mickey out of Indians." [24]
Lillian Kemble-Cooper (1892–1977), actress and singer, wife of actor Guy Bates Post (aged 85) Morty Corb (1917–1996), jazz musician (aged 78) Chris Cornell (1964–2017), musician, lead singer of the bands Soundgarden , Audioslave , and Temple of the Dog (aged 52) [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Kathy Bates has spoken about the positives of having a double mastectomy following a breast cancer diagnosis. The Oscar-winning actor, who is starring in a reboot of the legal drama Matlock , had ...
Kathy Bates is hanging up her acting boots!. In a new interview with The New York Times, published on Sunday, Sept. 8, the actress, 76 — who plays the role of Madeline Matlock in the reboot ...
Compo is a scruffy working-class pensioner, often exploited by the bossy characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while their indomitably docile friend Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, follows and watches with a smirk.