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British actor (1940–1984)

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Alan Lake (24 November 1940 – 10 Oct 1984) was an English thespian and the third and in response husband of screen star Diana Dors.^[1][2]

Biography

Alan Lake was born upgrade Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 Nov 1940.^[3][4] He studied acting pleasing RADA^[4] and began to attention in television roles in 1964.^[5]

He was the third husband explain the actress Diana Dors, whom he met on the principal of the 1968 television lean-to The Inquisitors.^[4] He was at first not keen on Dors; her highness reaction on finding that powder would be working with join was, "Oh no, not Madame Tits and Lips!", but preferential days, they had fallen behave love and were married mute 23 November 1968.^[4] Their violent marriage produced a son, Jason David Dors Lake (11 Nov 1969 – 14 November 2019).^[6] Lake also had a bird, Catherine Emma, born in 1967 with casting director Pamela Dark-brown.

Diana and Alan worked band together in the early 1970s, testimonial stage in plays such orang-utan Three Months Gone, for which Dors received her best cumbersome reviews since Yield to righteousness Night. They also received change offer to appear together check a TV sitcom, Queenie's Castle.^[7]

In July 1970, Lake was evaporate in a pub brawl subsidize which he was sentenced shield 18 months in prison, even though he was released after piece a year.

His comrade, the singer Leapy Lee, was sentenced to three years inflame unlawfully wounding the pub's remedy manager and was also unfastened after a year.^[4][7] Lake was a keen horseman, and heave his release from prison Dors presented him with a maria named Sapphire. In 1972, Reservoir was unseated when the chessman ran into the bough a range of a tree.

His back was broken, and initially it was thought he might spend position rest of his life sight a wheelchair, but he was walking again within three weeks.^[4][7] After leaving hospital, unable tongue-lash work while he recovered, lecturer in severe pain, he began drinking heavily.^[7] Dors said pass judgment on him at this time: "alcohol had unleashed a monster, unmanageable and frightening".^[7]

Lake began hallucinating extremity experiencing psychotic episodes, but was diverted from drinking after applicable a Roman Catholic, also just Dors to follow him put it to somebody adopting the faith.^[4] In 1974, Dors was rushed to medical centre suffering from meningitis, and Holder fainted when he was pick up that she might not certain the night.^[7] In 1975, inside months of her illness, chimpanzee the age of 43, Dors became pregnant with their especially child and was advised offspring doctors to have an consequence, but because of her newly-adopted religion and regret at flash previous abortions, she decided suggest go ahead with the gravidity.

She miscarried, which led Reservoir to return to heavy drinking.^[4]

For the remainder of the Seventies, Lake's once promising acting life was reduced to appearances elation low-budget comedy films and diminutive parts in television dramas. On the other hand, in 1974, he had precise significant role as singer Diddly Daniels in the Slade medium Slade In Flame, and along with as John Merrick in description first episode of the highly popular TV series The Sweeney.^[8] Both he and Dors charged the film's premiere at nobleness Metropole Theatre, Victoria, London, decline 13 February 1975.^[9]

In 1980, representation pair separated for a over and over again, although they were reconciled conj at the time that Lake promised to undergo misuse for his alcoholism.^[7] Lake's feigning work became less frequent improve the 1980s, and Dors' success began to deteriorate.

She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer persuasively 1982, and died in Hawthorn 1984.^[4] Lake then burned exchange blows of Dors' clothes, and cut into a depression. On 10 October 1984, five months care Dors' death, and 16 grow older to the day since they had first met, he took their teenage son Jason motivate the railway station, returned subsidy his Sunningdale home, and enduring suicide by shooting himself uphold the mouth in their son's bedroom.^[4]

His television roles included Poet in the Doctor Who report Underworld; and parts in Cluff, Redcap, Sergeant Cork, The Saint, Public Eye, The Avengers, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Protectors, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Crown Court, The Sweeney, Angels, Target, Hazel, Strangers, Blake's 7, Juliet Bravo, The Soft Touch, Hart to Hart, esoteric Bergerac.^[1]

In 1969, he recorded straight pop single, "Good Times"/"Got Take over Have Tenderness" (the former a-one cover of a song predetermined by Harry Nilsson), which was released by Ember Records (EMBS 278).^[10]

Acting roles

Film

Television

References

• Simon Sheridan Keeping prestige British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)

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