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Alan Bates

Feb 17, 1934 - Dec 27, 2003 (69 years old) in Allestree, Derbyshire, England

Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his tour-de-force with Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.

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Great Performances
James
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The Fixer
Yakov Bok
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Nijinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
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Hamlet
Claudius
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The Ray Bradbury Theater
John Fabian
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Quartet
H.J. Heidler
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Royal Flash
Rudi Von Sternberg
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The Rose
Rudge Campbell
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The Grotesque
Sir Hugo Coal
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Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa

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