Actor Sir Alan Bates has died after a long battle with ... In 1960, Bates made his screen debut as one of Laurence Olivier's sons in Tony Richardson's production of Osborne's The Entertainer.

Alvin Rakoff, the Canadian-born filmmaker who directed Laurence Olivier in A Voyage ... as well as novels, directed Olivier and co-stars Alan Bates and Jane Asher in the 1982 TV drama A Voyage ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence Olivier ... actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were ...