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Tou Tsung-hua

Cast · Known for Lust, Caution

Tou Tsung-hua was born on 10 October 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is an actor, known for Lust, Caution (2007), Copycat Killer (2023) and Requital (1992). He was previously married to Si Chen. He won the 2005 Golden Bell Award for Best Actor.

Lawrence Ko

Cast · Known for Lust, Caution

Lawrence Ko (Chinese: 柯宇綸; pinyin: Kē Yǔlún; born 28 April 1977) is a Taiwanese actor. Ko made his film debut when he was four years old. He has had roles in the Edward Yang films A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Mahjong (1996) and Yi Yi (2000), as well as the film Lust, Caution by Ang Lee. In 2011, he starred in the biopic Jump Ashin! (2011). He also appeared in the films Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (2013), To My Dear Granny (2013) and Murmur of the Hearts (2015).

Tim Squyres

Editor · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Life of Pi

Timothy S. Squyres is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. Squires has had an extended collaboration with the Taiwanese director Ang Lee. His latest collaboration with Jonathan Demme on the film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th-century play by Henrik Ibsen. Squires was born in Wenonah, New Jersey. He is the brother of Steve Squyres, a retired professor of astronomy at Cornell University and chief scientist at Blue Origin. Both brothers attended Cornell after attending Gateway Regional High School in New Jersey. Squyres has edited all of Ang Lee's films except for Brokeback Mountain, including The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Hire: Chosen (2001), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012). Squyres served as editor of Angelina Jolie's adaptation of Unbroken, released on December 25, 2014. Squyres' work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award, among other awards. His work on Gosford Park (directed by Robert Altman—2001) was also nominated for an Eddie. In 2012, he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Life of Pi. Squires has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Squyres is a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Squyres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Ang Lee

Director · Known for Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk

Ang Lee OBS (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Born in Pingtung County, Lee gained fame in Taiwan for the Father Knows Best trilogy, including Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between Eastern and Western cultures. His breakthrough in Hollywood came with Sense and Sensibility (1995), which was his first English-language film. His other notable films include The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), Gemini Man (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ang Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Andreas Lust

Marc Cushman

Cash Markman, born on November 22, 1954, is a writer and director best known for the x-rated musicals "My Bare Lady" (1989) and "Swinging in the Rain" (1997), and parodies such as "Lust in America" (2001), "Shagnet" (2002), "All That Sex" (1990), and "Sex Trek" (1990). Among his adult movie pseudonyms: Mark Cashman, Frank Marks, Bill Dollars, and Penny Nichols, names all based on forms of currency.

Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself "Iggy" after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas. He was lead singer/songwriter of influential protopunk band The Stooges and became known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics. Pop's popularity has ebbed and flowed throughout the course of his subsequent solo career. His best-known songs include "Lust for Life" which was featured on the soundtrack of the film Trainspotting, "Search and Destroy", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Down on the Street", Kick It (a duet with Peaches) , the Top 40 hits "Real Wild Child" and "Candy" (with vocalist Kate Pierson of The B-52's), "China Girl" (co-written with and famously covered by David Bowie), and "The Passenger". Description above from the Wikipedia article Iggy Pop, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Zoya Akhtar

Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Born to to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani, she completed a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, where she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before turning writer-director in her own right. She achieved her breakthrough with the comedy-drama Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Director. She has since directed the comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), segments in the anthology films Lust Stories (2018) and Ghost Stories (2020), and the musical drama Gully Boy (2019), which won her a second Filmfare Award for Best Director.

Nick Brimble

Cast · Known for Grantchester

Nick Brimble is an English actor known for his performance as Little John in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and his appearances on various television shows. His credits include: Softly, Softly, Z-Cars, Space: 1999, The Sweeney, The Professionals, Danger UXB, The Onedin Line, Blake's 7, Robin of Sherwood, Crossbow, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Dempsey & Makepeace, Bergerac, To Play the King, The Final Cut, The Bill, Casualty, Heartbeat, State of Play, Lock, Stock..., Doc Martin, Lust for a Vampire, and A Knight's Tale. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kiara Advani

Cast · Known for Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups

Kiara Advani (born Alia Advani on July 31, 1991) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi cinema and has also appeared in Telugu-language films. She made her acting debut in the Hindi comedy *Fugly* (2014), which earned her a Screen Award nomination for Best Female Debut. Her first major commercial breakthrough arrived two years later portraying Sakshi Rawat in the highly successful sports biopic *M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story* (2016). In 2018, she made her Telugu-film debut as Vasumathi in the political action film *Bharat Ane Nenu*, opposite Mahesh Babu. That same year, she garnered immense critical appreciation for her performance in the Netflix anthology film *Lust Stories* (2018), which showcased her acting versatility and significantly boosted her prominence. In 2019, she starred as Preeti in the romantic drama *Kabir Singh*, and appeared in the comedy film *Good Newwz*, for which she won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She further solidified her position as a bankable leading lady with critically acclaimed and commercially successful roles, portraying Dimple Cheema in the war biopic *Shershaah* (2021) and Katha in the romantic drama *Satyaprem Ki Katha* (2023). Both performances earned her nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Hayden Rorke

Cast · Known for I Dream of Jeannie

Hayden Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987) was an American actor best known for playing Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie. Rorke was born in New York City as the son of screen and stage actress Margaret Rorke. He began his stage career in the 1930s with the Hampden Theatrical Company. During World War II, he enlisted in the army, where he made his uncredited film debut in This is the Army. After the war, he left the army and worked in small parts on Broadway, returning to Hollywood in 1949 for more small and uncredited role in Lust for Gold, Kim, The Magnificent Yankee and An American in Paris.

Sophie Aldred

Sophie Aldred was born in Greenwich, London, and brought up in nearby Blackheath. After leaving school, she attended Manchester University, where she took a degree in drama. From university she sang in working men's clubs to obtain her Equity Card, then worked in a children's theatre, appearing in a fringe show, "Underground Men," at a pub theatre in London to get an agent, followed by more children theatre. She was appearing in "Fiddler on the Roof" with Topol in Manchester when she landed the part of Ace. At the same time as appearing in "Doctor Who," she presented a series for young children called "Corners" and later "Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams," which combined her acting and music skills. She has appeared in a number of theatre productions including a tour of "Daisy Pulls it Off" in which she played the lead, and she played Marjorie Pinchwite in the 1993 West End production of "Lust," a version of "The Country Wife." In 1995 she worked for the Children's Channel on satellite and also Love Call Live for Anglia television with David 'Kid' Jensen. In 1996, she co-authored with effects designer Mike Tucker a book looking at her time in Doctor Who called "Ace!"

Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Lion of the Desert, and La Strada. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. Outside of acting, Quinn was also a writer, painter, and civil rights activist.

Adam J. Yeend

A native of The Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Adam J. Yeend studied acting with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Fringe (2008) actor John Noble, and trained in the Stella Adler/Stanivslaski technique at The Lynette Sheldon Actors' Studio. He holds a degree in Communication Studies from the University of Western Sydney where he sub-majored in cinema studies and professional writing. He first featured in several internationally acclaimed short films before landing guest roles on Australian television. As well as having lead roles on stage in various Sydney plays, Adam has toured the east coast of Australia for renowned theatre company Brainstorm Productions. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has appeared in numerous films and expanded his facets into producing working on Lust for Love (2014), Skypemare (2013) and the Scary Endings (2015) thriller series. In 2014 he received critical acclaim for this role in the Los Angeles stage production of 'Holding the Man' directed by Larry Moss. His US television credits include Liz & Dick (2012) and Scandal (2012). Yeend most recently produced and played the title character opposite Jordan Ladd in Brentwood Strangler (2015). Studied piano for several years. Trained horse rider. Has one older brother, Matthew.

Anairis Quinones

Anairis Quiñones (born September 16, 1997) is an American voice actress. After watching several anime dubs as a child, Quiñones was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting, which she began in 2009. Some of her noteworthy roles include Miyuki Shiba in The Irregular at Magic High School, Echidna in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Rika Kawai in Wonder Egg Priority, Nessa in Pokémon: Twilight Wings, and Kimberly in Street Fighter 6. Growing up, Quiñones was a fan of the Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! series. However, what inspired her to pursue a career in voice acting was the English dub of Fullmetal Alchemist, specifically the performance by Laura Bailey as Lust. Quiñones started voice acting in 2009 and booked her first anime role in 2018 in Kemono Friends.

Yutte Stensgaard

A former au pair and model, Jytte Stensgaard emigrated to the UK in 1963, hoping to have a successful international film career. Changing her name to the slightly easier to pronounce "Yutte" Stensgaard she ironically didn't make her debut in a British film, but in the Italian movie The Girl with a Pistol (1968) (Girl with a Pistol) which did have some British backing. She then went on to appear in various British movies, mainly of the comedy or horror genre, most famously the lead role in Lust for a Vampire (1971), as well as several television guest roles. She also got a six-month stint hosting a game show with British king of comedy, Bob Monkhouse. After struggling with myopic casting directors, who could not see the beauty and budding talent before them and were happier to just keep casting more established but less beautiful women, Yutte finally gave up and emigrated to the USA in the mid-seventies and took up a job selling air time for a Christian radio station in Oregon. Understandably reluctant to make appearances at horror conventions when British film publicists finally started to notice her when it was too late, she did relent and start appearing at a select few in the late 1990s, giving the non-fickle amongst her fans a chance to see her unique radiance once more. An inimitable beauty the likes of which has never been seen since, Yutte Stensgaard was possibly the biggest loss to movies since that of Sharon Tate.

Kang Kyung-hun

Kang Kyung-hun is a South Korean actress. She is known for her roles in dramas such as Vagabond, Doctor Lawyer, Alchemy of Souls, and Oasis. She also appeared in movies Spider Forest, A Lonely Island in the Distant Sea, Empire of Lust, A Cruel Attendance and Hunt.

Billy Boyle

Billy Boyle is an Irish actor and singer on British film, television and stage. His recording career included five 45rpm singles for the Decca and Columbia labels, including the novelty song "My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Elvis" (Decca F 11503) in 1962. He is a veteran of the West End stage, having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows. In his first West End musical, Maggie May, he was nominated as best newcomer. Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in Hello Dolly at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane. He appeared in Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford. Harold Hobson, The Times critic said, "He was a breath of fresh air in the West-End" He went on to play leading roles in No Sex Please, We're British, Billy, What's a Nice Country, The Rivals, Love, Lust, & Marriage, Some Like It Hot, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and in the original cast of Dirty Dancing. Lately he has appeared as Grandpa George and Grandpa Joe in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at Drury Lane. In 2010, he was the Mysterious Man in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Into the Woods. His films include Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, Groupie Girl, Side by Side, Wild Geese II, The Scarlet and the Black, Round Ireland with a Fridge and A United Kingdom.

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director and author. He grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II. During his career, Douglas appeared in more than 90 movies and was known for his explosive acting style. He became an international star for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Detective Story (1951), a film for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received a second Oscar nomination for his role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination. In 1955, Douglas established Bryna Productions, which produced films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). He took the lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. In 1963 Douglas starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema. Kirk Douglas died at age 103.

Jared Leto

Cast · Known for Suicide Squad, Urban Legend, Masters of the Universe

Jared Joseph Leto (/ˈlɛtoʊ/; born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, he achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life (1994). He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine (1997). After supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998), Fight Club (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and American Psycho (2000), and the lead role in Urban Legend (1998), he earned critical acclaim for portraying heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000). He began focusing increasingly on music, then returned to acting with Panic Room (2002), Alexander (2004), Lord of War (2005), Lonely Hearts (2006), Chapter 27 (2007), and Mr. Nobody (2009). His performance as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred in Suicide Squad (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), The Little Things (2021) and House of Gucci (2021), of which the latter two earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed with his older brother Shannon Leto. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), released to positive reviews but limited commercial success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009), and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical success, and their fifth album, America (2018), marked new commercial success. As of September 2014, they have sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Leto is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character for the duration of shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is also known to be selective about his film roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jared Leto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Damian Perkins

Damian Perkins is a singer, actor, dancer, artist and model. He played Mereb in the original Broadway cast of the Broadway musical Aida and also played the role of Benny in the Canadian tour of the musical Rent. Aside from his work on Broadway, he has made guest appearances in shows such as CSI: Miami, Family Matters, Charmed, Providence, The Net, The Sentinel, and Then Came You. Perkins has done several pilots and has had major work in indie and studio films, including an amazing 2007 roster, on some of which Damian is producer as well as actor. He is working with some of the industry's top-tier directors, actors and producers, having done over 20 national commercials as well (Levi's, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Motorola, Pringles, J. C. Penney, and Nike amongst others). Overall, Damian has done over 2,000 live stage performances. He has been interviewed and performed on many TV shows, including The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Today Show, LA Weekly, The New York Times, BBC, E!, The Toronto Star, XM Satellite and many others. He has directed over 30 productions, including recent plays at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood, and has been training many young actors to reap success in TV/Film/Commercials and Theater for over 8 years. Finally, as a fine artist his work is owned by many celebrities and private collectors throughout Japan, Canada, and the United States. mian has co-created a new musical called "Divine Lust" with singer/songwriter Glenda Benevides and is projected to open in 2010.

Judy Matheson

Elegant, charismatic, and beautiful, Judy Matheson is one of the most iconic ladies to have featured in Hammer films. Judith C. Matheson was born in Thurrock, Essex, England. She began her career near the end of the swinging sixties after drama school. She first worked for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company, with which she toured the United States; this included a season on Broadway. She also made appearances in three prestigious Shakespeare productions, with the most prominent being Sir Tyrone Guthrie's production of Measure for Measure. She got her big break starring alongside a culturally diverse cast in the horror art house film The Exquisite Cadaver (1969). Her bold and groundbreaking performance skyrocketed her career, and soon she became a big hit among the horror film scene in Great Britain (particularly for Hammer). She made memorable appearances in a string of horror films such as Twins of Evil (1971), Lust for a Vampire (1971), Crucible of Terror (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), and more. She also made several appearances on televisions shows throughout the 1970s, including Blake's 7 (1978), Episode #1.2818 (1977), Harriet's Back in Town (1972), and more. She left the acting business at the end of the 1970s and has since married and had children. With her iconic status as a Hammer Girl, she still makes occasional appearances at film conventions meeting fans and signing autographs. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Foster Hitchman

Tamannaah Bhatia

Cast · Known for The Vvaan

Tamanna Santosh Bhatia (born 21 December 1989), better known as Tamannaah Bhatia, is an Indian actress, model, and dancer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema. She made her acting debut in the Hindi film *Chand Sa Roshan Chehra* (2005). She subsequently appeared in the Telugu film *Sri* (2005) and the Tamil film *Kedi* (2006). Her breakthrough came with Sekhar Kammula's coming-of-age film *Happy Days* (2007) and Balaji Sakthivel's Tamil drama *Kalloori* (2007). Over a career spanning more than 75 feature films, Tamannaah established herself as a bankable leading actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema. Her credits include *Padikathavan* (2009), *Ayan* (2009), *Paiyaa* (2010), *Siruthai* (2011), *100% Love* (2011), *Racha* (2012), *Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu* (2012), *Thadaka* (2013), *Veeram* (2014), *Oopiri* / *Thozha* (2016), *Dharma Durai* (2016), *Devi* / *Abhinetri* (2016), *F2: Fun and Frustration* (2019), and *Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy* (2019). She portrayed Avanthika in S. S. Rajamouli's films *Baahubali: The Beginning* (2015) and *Baahubali 2: The Conclusion* (2017). She also appeared in song sequences including "Kaavaalaa" in Nelson Dilipkumar's *Jailer* (2023) and "Aaj Ki Raat" in *Stree 2* (2024). Tamannaah has also worked in Hindi cinema and digital streaming, appearing in *Babli Bouncer* (2022), *Plan A Plan B* (2022), *Lust Stories 2* (2023), the investigative crime thriller series *Aakhri Sach* (2023), *Vedaa* (2024), *Sikandar Ka Muqaddar* (2024), the horror-comedy film *Aranmanai 4* (2024), and the Malayalam film *Bandra* (2023). Her later credits include the Telugu supernatural thriller *Odela 2* (2025), the series *Daring Partners* (2025), *O' Romeo* (2026), alongside Sidharth Malhotra. She received the Kalaimamani Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2010, as well as CineMAA and SIIMA Awards and an honorary doctorate.

Ralph Bates

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ralph Bates (12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company. Bates was born in Bristol, England, of French ancestry (He was the great, great nephew of French scientist Louis Pasteur) and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He read French there, before winning a scholarship to Yale Drama School. The course completed, Bates returned to Ireland to make his stage debut in Shaw's You Never Can Tell at The Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 1963. A career in repertory theatre soon followed and the young actor gained experience in productions ranging from Hedda Gabler, to raucous comedies. Later, Bates carved a niche in the world of horror films and played important roles or the lead in several Hammer Horror productions, such as Taste the Blood of Dracula, The Horror of Frankenstein, Lust for a Vampire, and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, in which he played a deranged doctor who mistakenly transforms himself into a beautiful siren. He portrayed Caligula in the series The Caesars and alongside Cyd Hayman in a passionate French tale of murder and mystery - Crime of Passion series. After playing Thomas Culpeper in an episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), he went on to star in the BBC drama series, Moonbase 3 (1973) and the long-running Poldark, in which he played villainous George Warleggan. The series ran for 29 episodes, starting in 1975. He also played Communist Paul Vercors in the final season of the drama series Secret Army. Because of his French ancestry and dark looks, he was often chosen to play a Frenchman on television. Bates also appeared in the television movie Minder on the Orient Express, again as a Frenchman. It looked, for some time, as if he might remain typecast in sinister roles, but he was offered a part in a farcical comedy by the writer John Sullivan, which saw Bates as the loveable but loveless central character among a singles group, with each of its members looking for that perfect but ever elusive partner. Dear John (1986–87), in which he realistically played the part of a divorcee returning to single life, lasted for two series, and around the same time he appeared in the ITV Yorkshire Television sitcom Farrington of the F.O. (1986) with Angela Thorne and Joan Sims. Bates became ill and was diagnosed with cancer. He died in London at age 51 from pancreatic cancer. He was divorced from the actress Joanna Van Gyseghem, and survived by his second wife, the actress Virginia Wetherell (married 1973-1991). The couple had one daughter actress Daisy Bates (b. 1974), and a son William Bates (b. 1977), an actor & musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Ralph Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.