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[h3]Born in Derbyshire, Alan Arthur Bates was encouraged by his parents to become a concert pianist and, from an early age, he knew his talents lay in the performing arts.[/h3]
Having won a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, he went straight into the Royal Air Force to complete two years of military.
He burst onto the theatre scene in 1956 as one of Britain's ‘Angry Young Men’ -artists rebelling against English middle-class values. But he refused to be typecast, and there was never a typical Alan Bates character. On stage, he moved comfortably between modern playwrights like O'Neill and Pinter and the classics of Shakespeare and Chekhov.
His 50-plus films are a testament to his incredible range. From ‘Zorba the Greek’ and ‘Georgy Girl’ to ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ and ‘Gosford Park’ - Bates was always guided by a love of acting rather than the box office.
He picked up his only Oscar nomination for John Frankenheimer's ‘The Fixer’.
In 1970, he married Victoria Ward and the couple had twin sons, Benedick and Tristan, in 1971. Unfortunately tragedy struck in 1990 when Tristan died following an asthma attack. His wife, Victoria Ward, passed away two years later.
In 1995 he received a CBE from the Queen and continued to appear on the both the stage and screen.
When he died in December of 2003, he was remembered for dozens of stage and screen roles spanning five decades. Bates gave his all to every character he played, right down to his last, in ‘Fortune's Fool’ on Broadway, when he was already ill with pancreatic cancer.
His companion at the end of his life was actress Joanna Pettet.
He won the Tony Award for Best Actor that year. Yet he was the definitive non-star star, the quiet chameleon who never made the gossip pages.
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- In 1969 Alan was the first actor to do frontal nudity in a major film, nude wrestling with Oliver Reed – ‘Women in Love’.
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Spartacus (2004)
The Statement (2003)
Meanwhile (2003)
Hollywood North (2003)
Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Evelyn (2002)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Gosford Park (2001)
Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
In the Beginning (2000)
Arabian Nights (2000)
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
The Cherry Orchard (1999)
The Spying Game (1999)
Nicholas' Gift (1998)
The Grotesque (1995)
Oliver's Travels (1995)
Silent Tongue (1994)
Hard Times (1994)
Losing Track (1992)
Secret Friends (1991)
Shuttlecock (1991)
Unnatural Pursuits (1991)
Hamlet (1990)
102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Mister Frost (1990)
Force majeure (1989)
We Think the World of You (1988)
The Dog It Was That Died (1988)
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Pack of Lies (1987)
Duet for One (1986)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1985)
The Wicked Lady (1983)
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Separate Tables (1983)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
The Return of the Soldier (1982)
A Voyage Round My Father (1982)
The Trespasser (1981) (TV)
Quartet (1981)
Rece do góry (1981)
Very Like a Whale (1981)
Nijinsky (1980)
The Rose (1979)
The Shout (1978)
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978)
The Collection (1976)
Two Sundays (1975)
Plaintiffs and Defendants (1975)
Royal Flash (1975)
In Celebration (1975)
The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
Butley (1974)
Story of a Love Story (1973)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
The Go-Between (1970)
Three Sisters (1970)
Women in Love (1969)
The Fixer (1968)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Roi de coeur, Le (1966)
A Hero of Our Time (1966)
Georgy Girl (1966)
Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
Alexis Zorbas (1964)
Nothing But the Best (1964)
The Running Man (1963)
The Caretaker (1963)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
The Entertainer (1960)
The Square Ring (1959)
A Memory of Two Mondays (1959)
It's Never Too Late (1956)
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