Timelines I: 1954 to 69 II: 1970 to 79 III: 1980 to 89 IV: 1990 to 99 V: 2000 to 03 BATES ARCHIVE News In Memoriam SPOTLIGHTS Knighthood American Film Theatre Fifties TV Al Hirschfeld FEATURES Biography Timeline Photo Gallery Actors Centre Piffle Ephemera ARCHIVE Theatre Film Television Audio Interviews Writing       Whatever is left of my life, and I might die tomorrow, I am still doing for them [his wife and children]. If life is that tenuous you have got to use the time. - Sir Alan Bates, on the day his knighthood was announced

t i m e l i n e . V The new Bates millennium got off to an exciting start: rehearsals for the RSC's London transfer of "Antony and Cleopatra" began as the New Year festivities were still on. The long-awaited Cacoyannis film "The Cherry Orchard" and Alan's newest audiobook released in the spring. His return to the Broadway stage for his first visit since "Butley" won him another Tony Award. 2003 began with a knighthood in the New Year Honours List, but ended tragically after Christmas with Alan's death, following a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. theatre film age television  other   2 0 0 0 x2000 Antony & Cleopatra RSC Barbican, London Theatre Royal, Plymouth The Unexpected Man Off-Broadway x2000 "Cherry Orchard" opens in London 66 x2000 St Patrick, the Irish Legend "Arabian Nights" "In The Beginning" NBC/Hallmark Mini  x2000 Art adapted for radio, with Michael Gambon & Simon Russell Beale Audiobook: "Falling," by Elizabeth Jane Howard Thomas Hardy reading for the National Trust 2 0 0 1 2001 The Unexpected Man off Broadway Lucille Lortel Award Dorian Gray Theatre Royal, Windsor 2001 The Mothman Prophecies Gosford Park Screen Actors' Guild Award for Ensemble 67  2001 "Love in a Cold Climate" BBC Mini BAFTA Best Actor nomination "Prince and the Pauper" NBC/Hallmark Mini "Bertie and Elizabeth" 2 0 0 2   2002 Fortune's Fool Broadway: Best Actor Tony  2002 The Sum of all Fears  68  2002 "When Love Speaks" CD  2 0 0 3  2003 Hollywood North The Statement  69  2004 Spartacus USA Network Mini    2003 Knight Bachelor 2003 New Year Honours  Sir Alan Bates died of cancer on 27 December 2003 Timelines: | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s |

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