How tall was Alan Bates?
Around the age of 11 Alan Bates wanted to become an artist. He won a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, after grammar school in Derbyshire. He joined the new English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, following two years in the Royal Air Force. His West End debut at 22 in 1956 was also the first production at the company. That the same year Bates starred that John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger," a play that brought a face to a group of "angry young men" in the post-war century. In plays written by great modern playwrights — Harold Pinter, Simon Gray, Storey, Bennett, Peter Shaffer and Tom Stoppard (as well as classic playwrights like Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and William Shakespeare) it made Bates a star and launched a lifetime of his success.
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