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     I shed pounds every night from the sheer hard slog of it all, but it really gets me up there flying high, so high that it takes another three hours after every performance just to get back to earth. - Alan Bates on performing "Butley"

t i m e l i n e . II After beginning a career in the early 1960's that any young actor would envy - ending that first decade with an Academy Award nomination, the 1970's continued a prolonged "golden age" for Alan Bates. Signature roles on stage and in films; work in Hollywood; television dramas of great quality. And, at the beginning of the decade, marriage to Victoria Ward, and the birth, in 1971, of twin sons. theatre film age television  other   1 9 7 0 1970 Women in Love The Three Sisters  36   1971 Hamlet West End 1971 The Go-Betweenx  37  1972 Butley West End (Evening Standard Award,) & Broadway (Tony, Best Actor) 1972 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 38 1973 Taming of the Shrew RSC, Stratford  1973 Butley (film version) The Impossible Object  39 1973 Butley Caedmon Audio    1974 In Celebration (film version) Royal Flash 40  1974 A Memory of Two Mondays The Wind & the Rain    1975-6 Otherwise Engaged West End 41   1975 Two Sundays Plaintiffs & Defendants   42   1976 The Collection    1977 Stage Struck West End  1977 An Unmarried Woman The Shout   43   1978 The Rose 44  1979 Nijinsky 45 Timelines: | 1960s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |

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