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Article: Actor was star of stage and screen ; The Australian actor Michael Pate was in such demand in Hollywood in 1953 that Columbia Pictures wrote to the director of the film, El Alamein: "Please kill Michael Pate before noon." A writer in Los Angeles in 1951 described Mr Pate "as a sort of Australian Humphrey Bogart type - except he looks more like James Mason".
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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The Australian actor Michael Pate was in such demand in Hollywood
in 1953 that Columbia Pictures wrote to the director of the film, El
Alamein: "Please kill Michael Pate before noon." A writer in Los
Angeles in 1951 described Mr Pate "as a sort of Australian Humphrey
Bogart type - except he looks more like James Mason".
His acting, accomplished and sometimes very fine, was not in Mr
Bogart's class, and his resemblance to Mr Mason was only slight.
Yet Mr Pate, who died aged 88, had a productive career as an
actor, director, producer and writer for stage, film and television.
He was born Edward John Pate in Drummoyne to Walter Pate and his
wife, formerly Margaret McKee. He began acting in 1938 ...