[1] Donald Spoto, "Alan Bates's secret gay affair with ice skater John Curry", The Daily Mail, 19 May 2007. The article is an extract from Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates, to be published one month later.
Father: Harold A. Bates
Mother: Florence M. Wheatcroft
Brother: Martin Bates
Wife: Victoria Ward (m. 1970, d. 1992 heart attack, twin sons)
Son: Benedick (twin, b. 1971)
Son: Tristan (twin, b. 1971, d. 1990 asthma attack)
Girlfriend: Angharad Rees (actress)
Boyfriend: John Curry (Olympic ice skater, dated while married to Ward)
Boyfriend: Peter Wyngarde (actor, together 1956-65)
Boyfriend: Nickolas Grace (actor, "an intense affair")
Girlfriend: Yardena Harari (Israeli, cohabited briefly, refused marriage in 1965)
Boyfriend: Paul Taylor (cohabited 1967)
High School: Belper Grammar School
University: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, England
Commander of the British Empire 1995
Knight of the British Empire 2003
Tony
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Spartacus (18-Apr-2004)
The Statement (12-Dec-2003)
Hollywood North (18-May-2003)
Evelyn (9-Sep-2002)
The Sum of All Fears (29-May-2002)
The Mothman Prophecies (25-Jan-2002)
Gosford Park (7-Nov-2001)
In the Beginning (12-Nov-2000)
Arabian Nights (30-Apr-2000)
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
The Cherry Orchard (1999)
The Grotesque (9-Sep-1995)
Silent Tongue (1-Feb-1994)
Shuttlecock (1991)
Hamlet (19-Dec-1990)
Mister Frost (11-Apr-1990)
Force Majeure (5-Apr-1989)
We Think the World of You (16-Sep-1988)
A Prayer for the Dying (21-Aug-1987)
Duet for One (Nov-1986)
The Wicked Lady (12-Aug-1983)
Separate Tables (1983)
Britannia Hospital (27-May-1982)
Quartet (May-1981)
Nijinsky (20-Mar-1980)
The Rose (7-Nov-1979)
The Shout (4-May-1979)
An Unmarried Woman (26-May-1978)
Royal Flash (2-Oct-1975)
Butley (16-Jan-1974)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (4-Jun-1972)
The Go-Between (Dec-1970)
Three Sisters (2-Nov-1970)
Women in Love (Sep-1969)
The Fixer (8-Dec-1968)
Far from the Madding Crowd (16-Oct-1967)
King of Hearts (21-Dec-1966)
Georgy Girl (Jun-1966)
Zorba the Greek (17-Dec-1964)
The Running Man (2-Oct-1963)
A Kind of Loving (Jun-1962)
Whistle Down the Wind (Jul-1961)
The Entertainer (3-Oct-1960)
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