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[[File:Alan Bates BP IMG 0282.jpg|thumb|Alan Bates BP IMG 0282|left|The [[Blue Plaque]] on Alan Bates's childhood home. In association with [[The British Film Institute]]]]
Both of his parents were amateur musicians, and encouraged him to pursue music, but by the age of 11, young Bates already had determined his life's course as an actor, and so they sent him for dramatic coaching instead.<ref name=ABAbio>{{cite web|author=Karen Rappaport|url=http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/bio.html|title=Alan Bates Biography|work=The Alan Bates Archive|
He was educated at the Herbert Strutt Grammar School, Derby Road, [[Belper]], Derbyshire (now 'Strutts', a volunteer led Business & Community Centre) and later gained a scholarship to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in London, where he studied with [[Albert Finney]] and [[Peter O'Toole]], before leaving to join the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] for [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] at [[RAF Newton]].
== Career ==
Bates's stage debut was in 1955, in ''You and Your Wife'', in [[Coventry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/timeline.html|title=Alan Bates Archive Feature: Timeline I, 1954-69|publisher=}}</ref>
In 1956 he made his West End debut as Cliff in ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'', a role he had originated at the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]] and which made him a star. He also played the role on television (for the ''ITV Playhouse'') and on Broadway. In the late 1950s Bates appeared in several plays for television in Britain. In 1960 he appeared in ''[[The Entertainer (film)|The Entertainer]]'' opposite [[Laurence Olivier]], his first film role. Bates worked for the ''Padded Wagon Moving Company'' in the early 1960s while acting at the ''[[Circle in the Square Theatre]]'' in New York City. Throughout the 1960s he starred in several major films including ''[[Whistle Down the Wind (film)|Whistle Down the Wind]]'' (1961), ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962), ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]'' (1964), [[Philippe de Broca]]'s ''[[King of Hearts (1966 film)|King of Hearts]]'' (1966), ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' (1966), ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)|Far From the Madding Crowd]]'' (1967) and the [[Bernard Malamud]] film ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]'' (1968), which gave him an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]. In 1969 he starred in ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]''.
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