Alan Bates
- Birthday
- Feb 17, 1934
- Birthplace
- Allestree, Derbyshire, England, UK
Bio: Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22, was also the company's first production. In the same year Bates… More Bio: Alan Bates decided to be an actor at age 11. After grammar school in Derbyshire, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Following two years in the Royal Air Force, he joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His West End debut in 1956, at 22, was also the company's first production. In the same year Bates appeared in John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger," a play that gave a name to a generation of postwar "angry young men." It made Bates a star and launched a lifetime of his performing in works written by great modern playwrights -- Harold Pinter, Simon Gray, Storey, Bennett, Peter Shaffer and Tom Stoppard (as well as such classic playwrights as Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and William Shakespeare). Four years later Bates appeared in his first film, a classic: The Entertainer (1960), in which he plays one of Laurence Olivier's sons. More than 50 film roles have followed, one of which, The Fixer (1968) (from a novel by Bernard Malamud) earned an Academy Award nomination for Bates. He married Victoria Ward in 1970. Their twin sons, Benedick and Tristan, were born in 1971. Tristan died during an asthma attack in 1990; Ward died in 1992. Date of Death: 27 December 2003, London, England, UK (pancreatic cancer)
Filmography
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Prince and the Pauper (2009)
- Actor
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Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2007)
- Actor
- 67%
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Zorba the Greek (2005)
- Basil
- 86%
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Spartacus (2004)
- Agrippa
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The Statement (2003)
- Bertier
- 24%
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Alan Bates Videos
The Mothman Prophecies
2 minutes 29 seconds
The Statement
2 minutes 8 seconds
Evelyn
2 minutes 16 seconds
The Sum Of All Fears
2 minutes 24 seconds
Gosford Park
2 minutes 48 seconds
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