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Arthur W. Bates
actor
- Born:
- 1883
- Died:
- 1972-08-16, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Arthur W. Bates entered the world in 1883 and spent the next eighty-nine years quietly turning celluloid into memory. Between 1915 and 1916 he slipped through three surviving films—The Alster Case, Vultures of Society, and The Phantom Buccaneer—each performance a fleeting silhouette that still flickers in archives today. Long after the projectors cooled, he remained a Chicago man, drawing his last breath in the city on 16 August 1972.
