Background
Bates, Alan was born on February 17, 1934 in Derbyshire, England. Son of Harold Arthur and Florence Mary (Wheatcroft) Bates.
Bates, Alan was born on February 17, 1934 in Derbyshire, England. Son of Harold Arthur and Florence Mary (Wheatcroft) Bates.
Belper Grammar School and Royal Academy, of Dramatic Art (RADA).
London include roles in The Mulberry Bush, Look Back in Anger (also in Moscow and Newr York), The Country Wife, In Celebration, Long Day’s Journey into Night (also at Edinburgh Festival), The Caretaker (also in New York), The Four Seasons, Hamlet (also in Nottingham), Butley (also in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco), Life Class, Otherwise Engaged 1975-1976, The Seagull 1976, Stage Struck; has also appeared at Canadian Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario in title role of Richard III and as Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; also in Poor Richard (New York), Venice; The Entertainer 1960, Whistle Dowm the Wind 1961, A Kind of Loving 1962, The Running Manitoba 1962, The Caretaker 1963, Nothing but the Best 1964, Zorba the Greek 1965, Georgy Girl 1965, King of Hearts 1966, Far from the Madding Crowd 1966, The Fixer 1967, Women in Love 1968, The Three Sisters 1969, The Go-Between 1971, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 1972, Butley 1973, The Impossible Object 1973, In Celebration 1974, Royal Flash 1974, An Unmarried Woman 1977, The Shout 1977, The Rose 1978, Nijinsky 1979, The Trespasser 1980, Quartet 1981, The Return of the Soldier 1982, The Wicked Lady 1982, Duet for One 1987, Prayer for the Dying 1987, The Lair of the White Worm 1989, Doctor M. 1989, Force Majeure, Hamlet 1990, 102 Boulevard Haussmann 1990, Mister Frost 1990. Television: Two Sundays, Plaintiff and Dependant, The Collection, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Very Like a Whale, A Voyage Round my Father 1982, An Englishman Abroad 1983, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party 1984, Pack of Lies 1988; received TonyServed (Bristol), The Taming of the Shrew (Stratford-upon-Avon), A Patriot for Maine (London and Chichester) 1983, Dance of Death 1985, Yonadab 1985, Melon 1987, Ivanov 1989, Much Ado About Nothing 1989, Muse of Fire 1989.
Served with Royal Air Force. Member of Royal Academy Dramatic Art (associate).
Married Victoria Ward, May 1970 (deceased June 1992). 2 sons (twins, 1 deceased).