Anthony Bate

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Anthony Bate (born August 31, 1927 in Stourbridge , Worcestershire , † June 19, 2012 in Newport , Isle of Wight ) was a British actor .

Life

Origin and years of youth

Bate was born to Hubert George Cookson Bate († 1986) and Cecile Marjorie Canadine († 1973) in the West Midlands . He attended the King Edward VI School in Stourbridge. On VE Day (May 8, 1945) he moved with his family to the Isle of Wight; there he worked in the bar of the North Bank Hotel that his parents ran in Seaview . His future wife, Diana Fay, encouraged him to join a local amateur theater group. He completed his acting training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London (gold medal). He did his military service from 1945 to 1947 in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve .

theatre

Bate made his stage debut in 1953 in Worthing . He made his theatrical debut in London's West End in 1960 at St Martin's Theater in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's play Who Sows the Wind . In December 1960 he played the role of the pirate Tom Morgan in a stage version of Stevenson's novel Treasure Island at the Mermaid Theater . In 1966 he appeared at the Hampstead Theater in the tragic comedy Happy Family by Giles Cooper . Bate played a strange stockbroker and the brother of two even stranger sisters; he played the role with "stiff, inward formality and a childlike fear of the dark". In 1969 he took on the role of Don Pedro at the Aldwych Theater in London with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a revival of the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing ; his partners were Alan Howard (Benedict) and Janet Suzman (Beatrice).

In 1970 he appeared at the Open Space Theater in London in the play Find Your Way Home by John Hopkins ; Bate embodied a conventional middle-aged husband who leaves his wife and children in order to start a life together with his young lover Julian (called Julie by his friends), a casual prostitute. In 1973 he appeared at the Haymarket Theater in Leicester in another John Hopkins play, Economic Necessity . Bate drew attention in this play for his "katanonical portrayal of a concerned father"; Bate delivered a beautiful and ultimately touching portrayal of painful emptiness. Often on stage he demonstrated his ability to arouse the audience's interest in static, monotonous characters.

Until the 1990s, Bate appeared repeatedly as a stage actor. He had other stage roles in the grotesque The Flea in the Ear by Georges Feydeau (1980, Plymouth Theater Company), in the acting Master Class by David Pownall (1984, tour production), in the play The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan (1988 , Royal Haymarket Theater with Penelope Keith as partner) and in the comedy Relative Values by Noël Coward (1993–1994, Chichester Festival Theater; Savoy Theater).

Movie and TV

In the movies and on television , Bate mostly played disturbing, disturbing, serious characters. He was often used in the role of the "bad guy".

In the cinema, Bate played almost exclusively supporting roles. He had his first film roles as Jackson in the comedy Dentist in the Chair (1960), as a detective in the crime film Dirty Money ( Payroll , 1961) and as a scientist in the comedy Dentist in the Chair (the sequel to Dentist in the Chair ). In the horror film Ghost Story (1974) he took on the role of Dr. Borden. In the movie Nowhere in Africa he was seen in 2003 as boarding school director and Oxford graduate Mr. Arthur Brindley.

Bate has taken on numerous roles in British television films . In the British television film Phily, Burgess and MacLean (1977), Bate played the British double agent Kim Philby ; his partners included Derek Jacobi and Arthur Lowe . For this role, Bate was nominated in 1978 at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo in the category "Best Actor". Then Bate received other roles in the genre of spy thriller . His most famous role was that of government official and member of the Cabinet Office Sir Oliver Lacon, one of the " Whitehall mandarins", in the British television series Dame, König, As, Spion (1978/1979) based on the novel by John le Carré ; He repeated this role in the television series Smiley's People , a film adaptation of the novel Agent on his own behalf by John le Carré. In the television series Game, Set, and Match (1988) he played the continuous series role of the spy Bret Rensselaer.

Bate has been used repeatedly in literary adaptations on television, in television versions of plays, in television films and mini-series. He played Macduff in Macbeth (TV adaptation), Rogoshin in The Idiot (TV movie), Inspector Javert in The Misery (TV series), Nikolai Kirsanov in Fathers and Sons (mini-series), Doctor Livesey in Treasure Island (mini-series) and Doctor Dorn in Die Möwe (1978, TV version).

Bate also took on other continuous series roles, episode roles and guest roles in numerous British television series , including Dixon of Dock Green (1958, 1960, 1962), Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (1961, 1968), Simon Templar (1963, 1964, 1968) ), Joan and Harry (1974, as manager Harry Paynter), Couples (1975–1976; continuous role as Robert Warren), Beasts (1976), Crown Court (1976, 1978, 1982), Firestorm and Ashes (1988/1989, as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt ), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990, as Lord Pearson in the episode The Lost Mile ), Hot Suspicion (1995), A Touch of Frost (1997) and Inspector Barnaby (2000, as villager and spokesman for the Augustus village community Deverell in the episode The Garden of Death ).

Private

Bate married Diana Fay in 1954, the daughter of Kenneth Alfred Charles Cawes Watson († 1939) from Seaview, Isle of Wight. The marriage resulted in two sons, Gavin and Mark. Bate and his wife Diana Fay moved back to their old home on the Isle of Wight in 2011; they lived in Bembridge .

Bate died early in the morning on June 19, 2012 at St. Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight, after a brief illness. Because of his poor health, he was admitted there two days earlier.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1957: High Tide at Noon
  • 1959: Desert Mice
  • 1960: Dentist in the Chair
  • 1961: Dirty Money (Payroll)
  • 1961: Dentist on the job
  • 1958; 1980; 1962: Dixon of Dock Green (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1961; 1968: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (The Avengers) (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1963; 1964; 1968: Simon Templar (The Saint) (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1966: Macbeth
  • 1966: the idiot
  • 1967: Les Misérables (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 1971: Fathers and Sons (mini series)
  • 1973: Ego Hugo (TV movie)
  • 1974: Ghost Story
  • 1974: Joan and Harry (Intimate Strangers) (TV series)
  • 1975–1976: Couples (TV series)
  • 1976: Beasts (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1976; 1978; 1982: Crown Court (TV series)
  • 1977: Treasure Island (mini-series)
  • 1977: Phily, Burgess and Maclean (TV movie)
  • 1978: The seagull
  • 1978: At Englishman's Castle
  • 1979: König, Dame, As, Spion (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) (TV series)
  • 1982: A Woman Called Golda (TV movie)
  • 1982: Smiley's People (TV series)
  • 1984: Broad Street (Give My Regards to Broad Street)
  • 1988: Game, Set, and Match (TV series)
  • 1988–1989: Firestorm and Ashes (TV series)
  • 1990: Agatha Christie's Poirot (Episode: The Lost Mine )
  • 1992–1993: Medics (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 1995: Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect) (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1997: Rebecca
  • 2000: Inspector Barnaby (Episode: Garden of Death )
  • 2001: Nowhere in Africa
  • 2004: The Bill (TV series, 1 episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anthony Bate obituary in: The Daily Telegraph, June 20, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Actor Anthony Bate dies aged 84 obituary in: The Independent from June 19, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy actor Anthony Bate dies aged 84 obituary in: Daily Mail, June 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bate, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stourbridge , Worcestershire
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2012
Place of death Newport , Isle of Wight