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Alan Arthur Bates was a British actor. He was born in 1934 at Allestree and died in 2003. He decided to be an actor at the age of 11. After attending 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 coming in 1956. In the same year Bates appeared in Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger', a play that gave a name to a generation of post-war 'angry young men'. The play made Bates a star, and launched a lifetime performing in works written by great modern playwrights - Pinter, Gray, Storey, Bennett, Shaffer, Stoppard (as well as Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shakespeare). Four years later, Alan Bates appeared in his first film, 'The Entertainer', in which he played one of Laurence Olivier's sons. More than fifty film roles followed, one of which, 'The Fixer' (from a novel by Bernard Malamud) earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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Far From The Madding Crowd is an adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy. It is a drama centred around a country girl and the three men in her life. Far From The Madding Crowd stars Julie Christie and Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates. Far From The Madding Crowd was directed by John Schlesinger in 1967.
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Georgy Girl is a comedy starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen in a story based on the novel by Margaret Forster about a young girl who discovers herself while being pursued by her parents' employer and looking after her roommate's illegitimate child. Georgy Girl was directed by Silvio Narizzano in 1966.
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Hamlet is a tragedy starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close and Alan Bates in a film version of William Shakespeare's play about a Danish prince who, discovering that his uncle has murdered his father in order to gain the throne, plots revenge. Hamlet was directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1990.
Story of a Love Story is a fantasy drama starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sandra in a story about a writer living outside Paris who begins an extra-marital affair with a woman he meets in a museum. Story of a Love Story was directed by John Frankenheimer in 1973.
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The Go-Between is a drama starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard and Margaret Leighton in a story about a boy hired to act as a go-between in the illicit love affair of an aristocratic woman and a farmer. The Go-Between was directed by Jospeh Losey in 1970.
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The Running Man is a drama starring Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Alan Bates in a story about a pilot who following an accident in which his insurers refuse to pay out, stages his own death and makes a false claim. The Running Man was directed by Carol Reed in 1963.
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Whistle down the Wind is a drama starring Hayley Mills, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird and Diane Holgate in a story of three children who discover an escaped convict hidden in a barn and are convinced he's Jesus Christ.
Whistle Down The Wind was directed by Bryan Forbes in 1961.
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Women in Love is an adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novel of sexual passions. It stars Glenda Jackson, Jennie linden, Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in a story set in England during the 1920s. It follows two sisters who find suitors in a wealthy industrialist and his school teacher friend. Women In Love was directed by Ken Russell in 1969.
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