Acting

Richard Bates

Acting credits

The Diamond Trap poster
6.0

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.

The Diamond Trap

1988

King of the Wind poster
7.0

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.

King of the Wind

1990

The Haunted Hotel poster
5.5

A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.

The Haunted Hotel

2021

Talk to Me poster
10.0

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

Talk to Me

1984

The Stalker's Apprentice poster
4.6

When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's author (Peter Davison) and suddenly has trouble leaving his work at the office. Intrigued by the volume's step-by-step instructions on how to stalk and murder an unsuspecting victim, Marcus grows obsessed with becoming an expert. This made-for-television drama is based on the book by M.S. Power.

The Stalker's Apprentice

1998