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Alan Bates

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About Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was a British actor of stage, screen and television. Early life Bates was born in Allestree, Derby, Derbyshire, England on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three sons of Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a homemaker and a pianist, and Harold Arthur Bates, an insurance broker and a cellist. The family briefly moved to Mickleover, then returned to Allestree. Both of his parents were amateur musicians

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Tired With All These, for Restful Death I Cry

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Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (LXVI)

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Sonnet 66 | Tired with all these, for restful death I cry

146 plays
4

Billie Jean

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Un Leon Escapo de Su Jaula

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Tired with all these, for restful death

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): Here we are. Sit down (Aston, Davies)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): Did you see what happened with that one? (Davies, Aston)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): This your room? (Davies, Aston)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): I'll tell you what, mate, you haven't got a spare pair of shoes? (Davies, Aston)

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Tired of all these, for restful death I cry

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12

The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): Would - would you like to sleep here? (Aston, Davies)

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Invictus

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A Shropshire Lad: The Recruit

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A Shropshire Lad: 1887

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She Was a Phantom of Delight

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A Shropshire Lad: Reveille

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A Shropshire Lad: On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): [lights up] - What? What's this? What's this? (Davies, Aston)

5 plays
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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): Any time you want to, get into bed, just get in (Aston, Davies)

5 plays
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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act III (The same. A fortnight later): I got a feeling he's done something to them cracks (Davies, Mick)

5 plays
22

The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): How are you off for money? (Aston, Davies)

5 plays
23

The Road Not Taken

108 plays
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Tired With All These, for Restful Death I Cry (66)

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25

Sonnet 66

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A Shropshire Lad: Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree

5 plays
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A Shropshire Lad: On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank

5 plays
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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act III (The same. A fortnight later): [Aston enters] - Look, uh... (Mick)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act III (The same. A fortnight later): Where are you going? This is him (Davies, Aston)

4 plays
30

Say, lad, have you things to do?

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act II (The same. A few seconds later): I had a bit of bad luck with that jigsaw (Aston, Davies)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act II (The same. A few seconds later): Intending to settle down here? (Mick, Davies)

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33

A Shropshire Lad: When Smoke Stood Up from Ludlow

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A Shropshire Lad: To an Athlete Dying Young

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35

A Shropshire Lad: Westward on the High-Hilled Plains

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36

A Shropshire Lad: The Day of Battle

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37

The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act II (The same. A few seconds later): Well? (Mick, Davies)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): [black-out]

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act I (A room in a house in west London. A night in winter): Locked (Davies, Mick)

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The Caretaker - A play in three acts, Act III (The same. A fortnight later): Look what I could do to this place (Mick, Davies)

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I uh - I think it's about time you found somewhere else (Aston, Davies)

3 plays
42

Love in Life / Life in a Love / Two in the Campagna

3 plays
43

Robert Frost - The Road not Taken

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44

Sonnets from the River Duddon, Afterthought

3 plays
45

Un león escapó de su jaula

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46

A Shropshire Lad: There Pass the Careless People

3 plays
47

A Shropshire Lad: As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre

3 plays
48

A Shropshire Lad: The Winds Out of the West Land Blow

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49

A Shropshire Lad: Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff

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Invictus - William Ernest Henley

28 plays

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