Alan Bates—London
Birth
Alan Arthur Bates was born, the eldest of three brothers, on 17 February 1934 in Allestree, Derbyshire.
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Fame
Alan Bates's secret gay affair with ice skater John Curry, Donald Spoto, Daily Mail, London, 19 May 2007
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Versatile, good-looking British actor Alan Bates came to prominence as one of the chief proponents of the angry young man school, along with fellow RADA alums Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay.
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Work
Alan Bates, who originated the title role in the Harold Pinter-directed London production, reprised his portrayal to Tony-Award winning success.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/85791.html
Co-starring Albert Finney and Alan bates (in their screen debuts), this powerful, thought provoking and vividly theatrical film, true to its name, is supremely entertaining.
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Alan Bates (1934-2003) was an exceptionally versatile and talented actor. After his national service in the Royal Air Force, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where his contemporaries included Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole. When he graduated, three years later, he began his professional stage career with the Midlands Theatre Company. In 1956 he became one of the founder members of George Devine's English Stage Company at the Royal Court in London.
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Two sides of Alan Bates in Simon Gray's interlocking duo, Plaintiffs and Defendants and Two Sundays.
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Veteran British thesp Alan Bates, who had a long career on stage and in film including Women in Love (1969), An Unmarried Woman (1978) and most recently Gosford Park (2001), died Saturday in London after a long battle with cancer, Reuters reports.
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Alan Bates, Zorba the Greek, The Rose), it seems, has a history of inviting naïve young girls to stay in the couple's spare room, then turning all of his charm and wile toward their seduction.
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Rarely performed since Alan Bates's tour de force West End and Broadway renditions of 1971-72, Simon Gray's Butley holds up astoundingly well, even though the term "gay" had yet to come into common parlance when the show was written.
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