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217:, was sentenced to three years for unlawfully wounding the pub's relief manager and was released after a year. Lake was a keen horseman, and on his release from prison Dors presented him with a mare named Sapphire. In 1972, Lake was unseated when the horse ran into the bough of a tree. He broke his back, and initially it was thought he might spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. However, he was walking again within three weeks. After leaving hospital, unable to work while he recovered, and in severe pain, he began drinking heavily. Dors said of him at this time: "alcohol had unleashed a monster, uncontrollable and frightening". 190:. He was initially not keen on Dors; his reaction on finding that he would be working with her was, "Oh no, not Madame Tits and Lips!", but within days, they had fallen in love and were married on 23 November 1968. Their stormy marriage produced a son, Jason David Dors Lake (11 November 1969 – 14 November 2019). Lake also had a daughter, Catherine Emma, born in 1967 with casting director Pamela Brown. Diana and Alan worked together in the early 1970s, on stage in plays such as 228:, and Lake fainted when he was told that she might not survive the night. In 1975, within months of her illness, at the age of 43, Dors became pregnant with their second child and was advised by doctors to have an abortion, but because of her newly-adopted religion, and regret at two previous abortions, she decided to go ahead with the pregnancy. She miscarried, which led Lake to return to heavy drinking. 1238: 255:
In 1980, the pair separated for a time, although they were reconciled when Lake promised to undergo treatment for his alcoholism. Lake's acting work became less frequent in the 1980s, and Dors's health began to deteriorate. She was diagnosed with
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in 1982, and died in May 1984. Lake then burnt all of Dors's clothes, and fell into a depression. On 10 October 1984, five months after Dors's death, and 16 years to the day since they had first met, he took their teenage son Jason to the
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For the remainder of the 1970s, Lake's once promising acting career was reduced to appearances in low-budget comedy films and small parts in television dramas. However, in 1974, he had a significant role as a singer Jack Daniels in the
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brawl for which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, although he was released after serving a year. His friend, the singer
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In 1969, he recorded a pop single, "Good Times"/"Got To Have Tenderness" (the former a cover of a song written by
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Lake began hallucinating and experiencing psychotic episodes, but was diverted from drinking after becoming a
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home, and committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in their son's bedroom.
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Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema
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He is best known as the third husband of the actress
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Index

Alan Lake (activist)

Stoke-on-Trent
Sunningdale
Diana Dors
Diana Dors
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
RADA
Diana Dors
Yield to the Night
Queenie's Castle
pub
Leapy Lee
Roman Catholic
meningitis
Slade
Slade In Flame
The Sweeney
Metropole Theatre
ovarian cancer
railway station
Sunningdale
Doctor Who
Underworld
Cluff
Redcap
Sergeant Cork
The Saint
Public Eye

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