Editing Alan Bates (section)

===Early stage appearances===
Bates's stage debut was in 1955, in ''You and Your Wife'', in [[Coventry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/timeline.html|title=Alan Bates Archive Feature: Timeline I, 1954–69|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519032508/http://www.alanbates.com/abfeatures/timeline.html|archive-date=19 May 2011}}</ref>

In 1956, Bates made his West End debut as Cliff in ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'', a role he had originated at the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]] and which made him a star. He also played the role on television (for the ''[[ITV Play of the Week]]'') and on Broadway. He also was a member of the 1967 acting company at the [[Stratford Festival]] in Canada, playing the title role in [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]].<ref>{{cite web | url =https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/5295 | title = Alan Bates acting credits | website = Stratford Festival Archives | access-date = 3 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=whitaker>{{Citation|last=Whitaker|first=Herbert|title=The credo of Alan Bates: aim for variety|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=8 April 1967|page=26}}</ref>