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Alan Bates

He was a fantastic actor, and when he was young he was so handsome and sexy. Plus, he was family!

Is anyone else a fan?

by Anonymousreply 40January 6, 2018 10:24 PM

Yes. OP, have you seen "Butley" (1974)? Bates plays a bitter gay literature professor who's losing his boyfriend to another man; brilliant performance.

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by Anonymousreply 1April 13, 2014 8:50 PM

I always mix him up with that other sad dissolute gay alcoholic English actor. And that other one.

by Anonymousreply 2April 13, 2014 8:52 PM

Ugly

by Anonymousreply 3April 13, 2014 8:53 PM

[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]

by Anonymousreply 4April 13, 2014 9:02 PM

I never confuse him with Oliver Reed, I confuse him with that other guy. You know the one. I forget his name. Wasn't there some other British actor whose name began with an 'A' who was from the 60s?

Bates was fucking delicious in his younger days.

The trailer for Butley is good, but I see no sign of either Jessica Tandy or the younger boyfriend. Odd. Does he wear that tiny bandage on his chin throughout the whole movie?

by Anonymousreply 5April 13, 2014 9:50 PM

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by Anonymousreply 6April 13, 2014 9:51 PM

r5, the younger boyfriend is the guy sharing the office with him in the trailer. Tandy has 2 scenes, 3 at most, she's barely in the film.

by Anonymousreply 7April 13, 2014 9:53 PM

[quote] He's a good example of what life was like for most gay actors in his day.

I resemble that!

by Anonymousreply 8April 13, 2014 9:55 PM

He was so sexy

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by Anonymousreply 9April 13, 2014 9:56 PM

Albert Finney, r5.

by Anonymousreply 10April 13, 2014 10:07 PM

Bates was supposedly a very nice man too. Actress Joanna Pettet who'd known him for 40 some years moved herself in with him when he became sick & it was she who took care of him until he died.

by Anonymousreply 11April 13, 2014 11:28 PM

He had plenty of long term relationships with men (e.g. Peter Wyngarde, that Ice skater). However, his biography made it clear that he found intimacy difficult, never mind his sexual identity. I can't actually imagine Bates and "Jason King" together.

His wife was a very sad case (she was quite clearly mentally ill and couldn't look after their sons). One of his sons died at something like 20 or 21 years old.

by Anonymousreply 12April 13, 2014 11:35 PM

[quote]He was so sexy

I know.

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by Anonymousreply 13April 13, 2014 11:43 PM

[quote]He had plenty of long term relationships with men.

He was gay alright but I don't consider two years a long term relationship. He did live with the young artist 5 years, probably his most important relationship.

He was painfully closeted which made his personal life difficult.

So many from that period were. In fact, many are now, but then it was much worse.

by Anonymousreply 14April 13, 2014 11:44 PM

I would have been Mrs. Alan Bates so fast.

by Anonymousreply 15April 13, 2014 11:45 PM

Take me, Daddy...

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by Anonymousreply 16April 13, 2014 11:50 PM

Act One of Butley ends when he rips off the chin band-aid. And why hasn't anyone mentioned "King of Hearts"?

by Anonymousreply 17April 13, 2014 11:53 PM

[quote]And why hasn't anyone mentioned "King of Hearts"?

They have...

by Anonymousreply 18April 13, 2014 11:57 PM

Oh yes, he was quite the lovely young man in his day...especially NEKKID

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by Anonymousreply 19April 13, 2014 11:57 PM

Due to my job, I was fortunate to have contact with him when he was ill. He was polite, funny, nice to everyone, generous and and an all round good guy. Myself and the many people who knew him via my work environment were sincerely sad when he passed. As too with Peter O'Toole. Not so with Michael Winner who was a cunt and a mean nasty son of a bitch.

by Anonymousreply 20April 14, 2014 12:02 AM

r14

Was he only two years with the ice skater? IIRC he was Wyngarde for at least five.

by Anonymousreply 21April 14, 2014 12:03 AM

Only thing I know about Michael Winner is that he was the director for (was it THE NIGHTCOMERS ?) the movie with Brando that takes place before THE INNOCENTS (TURN OF THE SCREW).

He was that bad huh ? Someone in my family did interviews for years and told me that often she was very disappointed to find out what a shit so & so was once the cameras stopped rolling.

by Anonymousreply 22April 14, 2014 12:10 AM

r19 thank you, but that is not he.

by Anonymousreply 23April 14, 2014 12:10 AM

The actor that R2 and R5 are talking about is probably Albert Finney. He was adorable as a young man, but got bloated and fat when he aged. Great actor, though

by Anonymousreply 24April 14, 2014 12:10 AM

When was he with the guy from Brideshead?

by Anonymousreply 25April 14, 2014 12:11 AM

Wikipedia says he was with Peter Wyngarde for 10 years, from 1956 to 1966.

by Anonymousreply 26April 14, 2014 12:47 AM

They were off and on through the 60's.

by Anonymousreply 27April 14, 2014 12:49 AM

Oliver Reed came to 'stardom' (claimed to be a relative of Third Man director Carol Reed) in Losey's 'These are the Damned', the finest Hammer Picture ever. One of the great films ever. Photographer David Bailey's wife starred with Reed, as did the great, iconic Viveca Lindfors as a sculptress.

Losey directed Alan Bates in the starring role in what is thought to be-- by the esteemed critic/theorist Raymond Durgnat--the greatest film ever: The Go-Between (with Julie Christie and Edward Fox). Christopher Mulrooney ageees, calling it the 'most lexically perfect film ever made'. Bates is also in Polanski scenarist Jerzy Skolimowski's--author of Academy Award winning Polanski first feature, Knife in the Water--excellent adaptation of Robert Graves' The Shout. You might know Skolimowski as one of the principal actors in David Cronenberg's fantastic film Eastern Promises (starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts).

Dirk Bogarde won wide acclaim, growing larger every year, for his work in the brilliant Losey (scenarist Harold Pinter) films Accident and The Servant.

Good times.

by Anonymousreply 28April 14, 2014 1:01 AM

Your own opinion would suffice

by Anonymousreply 29April 14, 2014 1:07 AM

Have you ever seen Reed in an interview ? Confrontational, unpleasant.

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by Anonymousreply 30April 14, 2014 1:17 AM

Michael Winner, as a very young man, came to America and directed Charles Bronson in the iconic and much imitated revenge drama Death Wish (think Red, Grand Torino, Harry Brown, In the Bedroom and others), much admired and cited by Tarantino. In his older years Winner became a central gastronomic figure in Great Britain, much beloved and charming as a pig, whilst dying in ironic fashion by eating bad shellfish. Alas. Much missed.

Good times.

by Anonymousreply 31April 14, 2014 1:20 AM

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by Anonymousreply 32April 14, 2014 1:22 AM

I met Alan Bates once in Heals (department store in London). We chatted about a suitable birthday gift for his nephew. Apart from being drop-dead gorgeous, he seemed to be a very pleasant guy.

by Anonymousreply 33April 14, 2014 2:08 AM

[R11] she didn't. Much rather He did. She was in no state to help anyone, made his life miserable and just wanted to have him marry her. She demanded a payoff when he died. Sad case

by Anonymousreply 34January 6, 2018 9:02 PM

You bumped a three-year old thread for THAT? There's a much more recent, and lengthy, thread about Bates.

by Anonymousreply 35January 6, 2018 9:17 PM

That joanna pettet thing just bugs me

by Anonymousreply 36January 6, 2018 9:19 PM

Found him hot in two films: Zorba the Greek and Unmarried Woman,. Especially Unmarried Woman. Sigh.

by Anonymousreply 37January 6, 2018 10:10 PM

Was even hotter IRL.

by Anonymousreply 38January 6, 2018 10:20 PM

There is a much more recent thread on Alan Bates somewhere on DL.

by Anonymousreply 39January 6, 2018 10:23 PM

200+ posts here.

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by Anonymousreply 40January 6, 2018 10:24 PM
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