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Alan Bates was one of the first actors to appear with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in their first production, The Mulberry Bush, less than a year after his graduation from RADA. Bates created the role of Cliff in John Osborne's Look Back In Anger, which he ... played in New York and Moscow. He starred in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in both London and New York as well as in the film version. Early in his stage career he received the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. He went on to a distinguished career marked by association with the leading British playwrights of the day, and a gift for getting to the heart of the characters he portrays: Bates has never been typecast, and has never been a member of a repertory company. He has always moved from stage to film to television, with major successes in each medium; but the stage is his home.
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Alan Bates is the patron of the Actors Centre in London, a venue set up in the 1970s by actors John Alderton, Sheila Hancock and Clive Swift for the training of performers. He has ... endowed a theatre at the Covent Garden Centre in the memory of his son, Tristan.
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The generation of British actors that emerged in the 1950's and 60's -- led by Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole, Tom Courtenay and Alan Bates -- was exactly in tune with the playwrights of the time. In unison they opened up the British theater to new ideas and possibilities, and they were soon grouped together as Angry Young Men. The label never quite fitted. Each proved to have an individuality, and Bates had a virtuosity that made him the most difficult to define. When he died on Saturday, the question remained: what was an Alan Bates role?
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Synopsis: An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was for some reason invited to dinner. Once at theRead More
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Alan Bates was first elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2000 and again in 2002. He served on the full Ways and Means Committee and the Ways and Means Sub Committees on Education and Health Care. Dr. Bates was instrumental in drafting legislation to revamp the Oregon Health Plan and authored the provider tax legislation to maintain critical funding for OHP patients and bring additional federal dollars to Oregon for Medicaid patients. He ... passed legislation to augment funding to Oregon Trauma Centers and ensure the viability of Oregon’s lifesaving trauma care system. During the interim, he served on the Legislative Emergency Board (E-Board).
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Alan Bates was appointed C.B.E. in 1995, and in 1997 the University of Derby honoured one of the cities favourite sons with an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree - `In recognition of his contribution to contemporary drama'.
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