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Alan Bates talks about THREE SISTERS
ALAN BATES SAID: "Vershinin is this figure who almost becomes a fantasy, a mirage. for the 3 sisters. Particularly, of course, for Masha, who falls in love with him. And he plays up to that. Not maliciously. He's just someone who lives out an idea of himself. Or someone else's idea of him. He's almost like drifting in thru life. And letting it all happen to him. And he plays the role that circumstances give him."
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Alan Bates talks about IN CELEBRATION
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ALAN BATES SAID ABOUT LINDSAY ANDERSON: "So I then got quite free with it. And then he started to direct. He waited until I felt at ease before he started to direct. If only that were always true. It's sort of common sense in a way. I suppose you've got to be fairly sensitive to understand it. You'll get nowhere with an actor unless he's at ease."
Alan Bates talks about Harold Pinter & Richard O'Callaghan
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ALAN BATES SAID: "Richard. He doesn't work nearly enough at the moment. He's got a quality. A naturally humorous quality in his seriousness. He was one of those actors who can convey that. That he's funny while being very very serious."
Alan Bates talks about BUTLEY
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ALAN BATES SAID: "It's a great part. This man who's literally on a self-destruct. But in a brilliant way. So that you are absolutely fascinated by this man who is just really sort of crumbling in front of you. Destroying everything around him. Every relationship."
Ben & Anne talk about Tom Weatherley
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Add "&fmt=18" for the high-resolution version. Scene from BUTLEY. Alan Bates is Ben Butley. Susan Engel is Anne Butley.
My Mother and I saw this at the Trak cinema in Melbourne. We were both huge Bates admirers. It was wonderful. I was a teenager at the time.
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Alan Bates was far more suited to the role of Vershinin than was Robert Stephens, who was too lacking in charisma and sex appeal for the part. That's not to say that Vershinin is necessarily a sexy and charismatic character, but Masha certainly finds him to be so, and the actor has got to be able to make us see what she sees in him, and I just don't see Stephens doing that. I quite enjoyed Bates' Vershinin.
Agree 1000# all great plays should be filmed it is a shame the Lawrence Olivier film of my favorite play August Strindbergs The Dance of Death has never been released on Home Video??!!!
Saw Butley again after many years. I felt the play got tedious, kept going by Bates' performance.
3:53 - 5:52 he starts talking about the actual character Vershinin & lives of the three sisters/ the circumstances
WOW/////What an Actor!
original book by David Storey 😊
Saw "Butley" when a co-worker gave me his tickets because he'd seen the play; came out of the theater with a raging crush on Alan Bates (my friend hated it). My favorite film, still. I saw it onstage with another actor many years later. No good. Went back to the film.
As a stage actor you would think he would know to enunciate, not swallow the words at the end of a sentence and project his voice! One shouldn't have to blare the volume at full blast to hear him!
Funniest play ever written. Just a terrible pity he didn't see it as an opportunity to Come Out. Personal choice of course nobody else's business but a tragedy for anyone to feel they have to be so secretive about their sexuality.
Different times. If he had of come out at that time his career would have been over and many friends and family turned against him. It was not easy for anyone to come out then.
Real theatre in film. Absolutely wonderful. Such genius use of language and pathos. Alan Bates my idol over the years R.I.P.
Just watched the film, bit frustrating, hard to suss out what was going on, script was??? , bit interlectual but at the same time like a kitchen sink drama, , I know they all had secrets, especially mother but still none the wiser at the end sortof, I liked the James Bowland character
1:55 I have to disagree. I think O'Callaghan has been poor in everything I've seen him do, including Butley.
You would never guess that this was just 9 months before he died.
A KIND OF LOVING.
Alan Bates was the definitive Pinter actor. He always held my respect and admiration.
I hope the film is available somewhere. I remember being very touched by it.
Prime video
Alan Bates was born for this role. He truly became Butley. R.I.P
The hero of my youth. Only just found this site - love it as I loved all Alan Bates' performances/films.
Only just found this play April 2022 - Wonderful to watch! Wonderful acting and a real treat to hear such glorious use of language. Alan Bates wonderful!
Thanks for posting these brilliant interviews, Alan was an amazing actor. Do you have any other interviews that you could post?
Alan Bates was great looking, actor's today don't look anywhere near that good.
I've watched Butley over a dozen times lately (sometimes just background noise) because of what an air-tight script it is, tour-de-force acting by all, (Jessica Tandy is magnetic!) and clever commentary on relationships of all kinds. Alan Bates is an amazing actor and I'm trying to track down as many of his perfomances as I can.
Just saw Pinter's "The Collection" with Lawrence Olivier, Helen Mirren, Alan Bates, and Malcolm McDowell, produced for BBC sometime ago. Just fantastic! On RUclips.
A brilliant actor alongside a incredible writer/director in Butley - many thanks for posting. We recently released a podcast about Butley - if anyone is interested in a discussion about possible mental health insights that may be elucidated from the play: ruclips.net/video/S_Mny9hcJIs/видео.html
Bates was such an incredible actor, and so perfect for the part of Butley. We recently released a podcast about that production of the play - if anyone is interested in a discussion about Butley's psychology and possible mental health insights that may be elucidated from the play: ruclips.net/video/S_Mny9hcJIs/видео.html
Thanks - really wonderful to hear Alan talking about his craft
Interesting actor, he was a romantic lead film star in the 1960s/70s but I think his main interest was theatre, actually I just recently read an authorised biography of Bates by distinguished author Donald Spoto , I'd highly recommend that book as it gives a good account of his life and career and was written with co-operation of friends and family and fellow actors, by all accounts he was a very likeable man, no one has a bad word to say about him at all.
ruclips.net/video/OB0x7t-hL6s/видео.html ...who is this?
What a lovely man, and a magnificent actor.
A CHANNEL DEVOTED TO THE LATE, GREAT ALAN BATES..AND NO COMMENTS, UNTIL NOW!!!!
What a great actor! We miss you.
Alan Bates is brilliant here.
I've only seen Susan Engel in a few films. I remember seeing her in this, Charlie Bubbles and King Lear and she gave the same flat, lifeless performance in each one.
This was his best performance I think. Really an inspired piece of acting.
Discovered Richard O'Callaghan on OUT OF THE UNKNOWN - Just brilliant!
One of the great actors of stage and screen.
A wonderful actor on stage and screen, met him at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, an absolute gentleman. He was the love of my life and I was heartbroken when he died. So handsome, so talented, miss him millions
Interesting man, I saw the mayor of castle bury - great
Canyoudigityesyoucan I remember that too.
he's missed
Bates, one of the three greatest post-Olivier group of actors IMO, along with Tom Courteney and Albert Finney. The film Butley was excellent.
Paul Grad Great actors but there’s Ian Holm, McKellen, Jacobi, John Hurt too.
@@Phantomrasberryblowe Yes, those are also Great Actors. It seems that all England did back then was produce Great Actors, and I'm including the dozens of character actors than pepper British films 1957-1973. And also the women --- Rita Tushingham, Maggie Smith, Sally Ann Field, Joan Hickson. Probably an exaggeration on my part to call them the greatest three, but they were tops in those kitchen-sink dramas that revolutionized British Cinema.
And Peter O'Toole!
I saw Butley, ALAN BATES is outstanding as the wierd professor
the most handsome man in show business.
It's a play about a man who hits bottom. We don't know what happens to him next. (Also, it's a door farce, even though there's only the one door.)
When he born? When he die and why?
Ignacio Hinostroza He born. He get old. He die.
Not old. Pancreatic Cancer.
Bates also suffered a stroke shortly before his death.
Another of the greatest, eternal British plays, turned into film
Really my minecraft name is butley04 and it has been that for years and I have only just found this wtf man (any game my name is butley04) (my ofical minecraft name is now TheOnlyButley)
Great to hear Bates say all the things I've always thought about this play and film. As he admiits, it's not for everyone. But for those who love language and can forgive this master of the bon mot his outrageous faults, there is nothing like it. Ever since the film came out in the American Film Theater series (1974) I have tried to get a copy. Now I finally have the DVD.
Its on DVD at last!
Astounding writing and acting.