Sir Alan Arthur Bates, CBE (1934-2003)
Michael Rhodes
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Alan Arthur Bates was born 17 February, 1934, and educated at the
Herbert Strutt Grammar School, Belper, Derbyshire; and the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career: (Theatre) English Stage Company (Royal Court Theatre, London):
The Mulbery Bush, Cards of Identity; Look Back in Anger; The Country
Wife; In Celebration; London (West End) Long Days Journey into Night;
The Caretaker; The Four Seasons; Hamlet; Butley, London and New York
(Evening Standard Best Actor Award, 1972; Antionette Perry Best Actor
Award, 1973); Poor Richard, New York; Richard III and The Merry Wives
of Windsor, at Stratford, Ontario; Venice Preserved, Bristol Old Vic;
Taming of the Shrew, at Stratford-on-Avon, 1973; Life Class, 1974;
Otherwised Engaged, Queen's 1975 (Variety Club of Gt Britain Best
Stage Actor Award 1975); The Seagul, Duke of York's Theatre, 1976;
Stage Struck, at the Vaudeville 1979; A Patriot for Me, at the
Chichester, Haymarket, 1983, transferred to Ahmanson, LA (variety Club
of Gt Britain Best Stage Actor Award 1983); Victoria Station and One
for the Road, at the Lyric Studio, 1984; The Dance of Death, at
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, 1985; Yonadab, National Theatre, 1985;
Melon, at the Haymarket 1987; Ivanov and Much Ado about Nothing, at
the Strand 1989; Stages, at the National Theatre, 1992; The Showman,
at the Almeida, 1993; The Master Builder, Haymarket, 1995, & Toronto,
1996; Simply Disconnected and Fortune's Fool, at Chichester, 1996;
Life Support, at the Aldwych, 1997; Antony & Cleopatra, Timon of
Athens, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1999.
Career: (Films) The Entertainer, 1960; Whistle Down the Wind, 1961; A
Kind of Loving, 1962; The Running Man, The Caretaker, 1963; Zorba the
Greek, Nothing but the Best, 1964; Georgie Girl, 1965; King of Hearts,
Far from the Madding Crowd, 1967; The Fixer (for which he was
nominated for an Oscar) 1968; Women In Love, 1969; The Three Sisters
(National Theatre Co) 1970; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The
Go-Between, 1971; Second Best, 1972; Impossible Object, 1973; Butley,
1974; In Celebration, Royal Flash, 1975; An Unmarried Woman, 1977; The
Shout, 1978; The Rose, 1979; Nijinsky, 1981; Quartet, 1982; The Return
of the Soldier, 1983; The Wicked Lady, 1984; Duet for One, 1986;
Prayer for the Dying, 1987; We think the World of You, 1989; Mr Frost,
Dr M, 1990; Hamlet, 1991; Losing Track, Secret Friends, 1992;
Shuttlecock, 1994; Silent Tongue, 1994; The Grotesque, 1996; The
Cherry Orchard, 2000.
Career: (Television) various plays; Plaintiff and Defendant, Two
Sundays, The Collection, 1977; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1978; Very
Like a Whale, The Trespasser, 1980; A Voyage around my Father,
Separate Tables, An Englishman Abroad, 1983 (BAFTA Best TV Actor Award
1984); Dr Fisher of Geneva, 1984; One For the Road, 1985; Pack of
Lies, 1988; The Dog It Was That Died, 1988; 102 Boulevard Haussmann,
1991; Unnatural Pursuits, 1992; Hard Times, 1994; Oliver's Travels,
1995; Arabian Nights, 2000; In the Beginning, 2000; Love in a Cold
Climate, 2001; Prince and thr Pauper, 2001.
Alan Bates was appointed CBE in 1995 and knighted in the New Years
Honours List at the beginning of this year.
He married in 1970, Victoria Ward, by whom he had twin sons (one
deceased).
Mrs Bates died in 1992.
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Michael Rhodes
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My main memory of Alan Bates was in Women in Love (one of the finest British
films), I also remember seeing him in 'An Englishman Abroad'.
He was one of the 'new' actors in the 1960s and will be very sadly missed.
Regards Mike.
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Robert Feigel (aka Bob)
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>"Michael Rhodes" <migx73all...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:4e5e1d66.03122...@posting.google.com...
>> The great actor Sir Alan Bates, CBE, has died at the age of 69.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3352141.stm
>>
>> Alan Arthur Bates was born 17 February, 1934, and educated at the
>> Herbert Strutt Grammar School, Belper, Derbyshire; and the Royal
>> Academy of Dramatic Art.
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>
>My main memory of Alan Bates was in Women in Love (one of the finest British
>films), I also remember seeing him in 'An Englishman Abroad'.
>He was one of the 'new' actors in the 1960s and will be very sadly missed.
>Regards Mike.
Weren't two of the other classically trained 'new' actors of that
generation Albert Finney (b. 1936), Peter O'Toole (b. 1932), Richard
Harris (b. 1930, d. 2002) and Tom Courtenay (b. 1937)? Or were there
others? b
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Robert Feigel (aka Bob)
<rrfe...@earthsea.co.enzed> wrote:
>Weren't two of the other classically trained 'new' actors of that
>generation Albert Finney (b. 1936), Peter O'Toole (b. 1932), Richard
>Harris (b. 1930, d. 2002) and Tom Courtenay (b. 1937)? Or were there
>others? b
IMTS:
Weren't FOUR of the other classically trained 'new' actors of that