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I'm not objecting to making money, and I don't blame anyone who does get obsessed with it. But I feel that there's a point in there where you forget why you did it, and everything about it, and if you want to go on doing it properly, you have to keep pulling yourself back, and not making that the reason to work.
- Alan Bates
t i m e l i n e . III
A glance at Alan Bates's credits in the 1980's shows one significant television role after another. A seven-part Thomas Hardy mini-series for the BBC - The Mayor of Casterbridge - looks as fresh now as it did over 20 years ago, and was one of Alan's favourite roles. Another classic, An Englishman Abroad, has been called by critics the most perfect hour of television ever filmed. The decade ended with a flourish of Chekhov and Shakespeare in the West End, and one of Alan's most intriguing projects - a one-man show at the 1989 Edinburgh Festival, on the theme of fire.
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47 | 1981 Mayor of Casterbridge 7-part mini series |
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