Actor Alan Bates

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Actor Alan Bates poses for photographs at the "New Dramatists 53rd Benefit Luncheon" May 14, 2002 in New York City. The New Dramatists 53rd Benefit Luncheon is honoring Barbara Cook at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The Veteran stage and screen actor Sir Alan Bates lost his fight against liver cancer on December 28, 2003 at The London Clinic.