Ralph Bates

Ingliz kino va televideniye aktyori. U Buyuk Britaniyaning "Dear John" sitkomidagi roli hamda Hammer Horror kompaniyasining so'nggi davridagi eng taniqli aktyorlaridan biri sifatida tanilgan. Bristolda fransuz millatiga mansub oilada tug'ilgan (mashhur olim Lui Paster uning uzoq qarindoshi bo'lgan). Dublin Trinity kollejida fransuz tili bo'yicha tahsil olib, Yale drama maktabida stipendiya yutib olgan. 1963-yilda Dublindagi Gate teatrida Shouning "You Never Can Tell" pyesasida debyut qilgan. Repertuar teatrida "Hedda Gabler"dan tortib turli xil komediyalargacha bo'lgan ko'plab rollarni ijro etgan. Keyinchalik "Taste the Blood of Dracula", "The Horror of Frankenstein", "Lust for a Vampire" va "Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde" kabi Hammer Horror loyihalarida bosh rollarni o'ynab, dahshatli janrdagi filmlarda o'z o'rnini topgan. Shuningdek, "The Caesars" serialida Kaligula obrazini gavdalantirgan va "Crime of Passion" serialida suratga tushgan.