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DIED. ALAN BATES,
69, bluff, beguiling English actor; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at age 22 in the original London stage production of
Look Back in Anger
. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in
Nothing but the Best
or a Jewish prisoner in
The Fixer
, wrestling nude in
Women in Love
or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in
An Englishman Abroad
, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier stars (Anthony Quinn...
