James Bate (actor)

James Bate was a British actor of television, film and stage, who was best known for playing David Allman in the ITV crime thriller series Sleuth.

Bate was born into a working class family, Bate was raised along with his brothers in a twobedroomed apartment in the London Borough of Islington by his father who was a steel worker and his mother who was a midwife.

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