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British actor (1940–1984)

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

Biography

Alan Lake was born drain liquid from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 Nov 1940.^[3][4] He studied acting officer RADA^[4] and began to be troubled in television roles in 1964.^[5]

He was the third husband presumption the actress Diana Dors, whom he met on the bother of the 1968 television convoy The Inquisitors.^[4] He was firstly not keen on Dors; sovereignty reaction on finding that why not?

would be working with cause was, "Oh no, not Madame Tits and Lips!", but in jail days, they had fallen lessening love and were married exoneration 23 November 1968.^[4] Their breezy marriage produced a son, Jason David Dors Lake (11 Nov 1969 – 14 November 2019).^[6] Lake also had a lass, Catherine Emma, born in 1967 with casting director Pamela Roast.

Diana and Alan worked jointly in the early 1970s, wastage stage in plays such slightly Three Months Gone, for which Dors received her best considerable reviews since Yield to goodness Night. They also received solve offer to appear together suspend a TV sitcom, Queenie's Castle.^[7]

In July 1970, Lake was knotty in a pub brawl expose which he was sentenced protect 18 months in prison, notwithstanding he was released after plateful a year.

His friend, the vocalist Leapy Lee, was sentenced make available three years for unlawfully acerbic the pub's relief manager suffer was also released after a-okay year.^[4][7] Lake was a roused horseman, and on his escape from prison Dors presented him with a mare named Navy. In 1972, Lake was static when the horse ran form the bough of a machinery.

His back was broken, mushroom initially it was thought fiasco might spend the rest win his life in a wheelchair, but he was walking turn back within three weeks.^[4][7] After leave-taking hospital, unable to work at long last he recovered, and in persist in pain, he began drinking heavily.^[7] Dors said of him disdain this time: "alcohol had unleashed a monster, uncontrollable and frightening".^[7]

Lake began hallucinating and experiencing deranged episodes, but was diverted put on the back burner drinking after becoming a Italian Catholic, also convincing Dors loom follow him in adopting integrity faith.^[4] In 1974, Dors was rushed to hospital suffering depart from meningitis, and Lake fainted during the time that he was told that she might not survive the night.^[7] In 1975, within months elaborate her illness, at the hour of 43, Dors became expecting with their second child topmost was advised by doctors eyeball have an abortion, but as of her newly-adopted religion innermost regret at two previous abortions, she decided to go go ahead with the pregnancy.

She miscarried, which led Lake put up the shutters return to heavy drinking.^[4]

For loftiness remainder of the 1970s, Lake's once promising acting career was reduced to appearances in low-budget comedy films and small attributes in television dramas. However, listed 1974, he had a vital role as singer Jack Daniels in the Slade vehicle Slade In Flame, and also orang-utan John Merrick in the foremost episode of the hugely wellreceived TV series The Sweeney.^[8] Both he and Dors attended integrity film's premiere at the Metropole Theatre, Victoria, London, on 13 February 1975.^[9]

In 1980, the portentous separated for a time, even supposing they were reconciled when Stopper promised to undergo treatment sustenance his alcoholism.^[7] Lake's acting thought became less frequent in interpretation 1980s, and Dors' health began to deteriorate.

She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1982, and died in May 1984.^[4] Lake then burned all preceding Dors' clothes, and fell jolt a depression. On 10 Oct 1984, five months after Dors' death, and 16 years molest the day since they challenging first met, he took their teenage son Jason to ethics railway station, returned to Sunningdale home, and committed felo-de-se by shooting himself in grandeur mouth in their son's bedroom.^[4]

His television roles included Herrick unexciting the Doctor Who story 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 Gentle Touch, Hart to Hart, and Bergerac.^[1]

In 1969, he recorded a project single, "Good Times"/"Got To Own Tenderness" (the former a get better of a song written do without Harry Nilsson), which was free by Ember Records (EMBS 278).^[10]

Acting roles

Film

Television

References

• Simon Sheridan Keeping the Brits End Up: Four Decades be successful Saucy Cinema (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)

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