Name John Fraser Role Actor | TV shows Thundercloud | |
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Books The Wild Beast May Break Them Nominations BAFTA Award for Best British Actor Movies Repulsion, El Cid, A Study in Terror, Isadora, The Trials of Oscar Wilde Similar People Ralph Thomas, Pete Walker, Kay Walsh, Ken Hughes, John Gilling | ||
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John Fraser (born 18 March 1931, Glasgow) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor and writer.
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One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of J. B. Priestley's The Good Companions (1957). He went on to have leading roles in films such as El Cid, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (playing Lord Alfred Douglas), Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Isadora and Schizo. He made appearances on television series including Danger Man (1964), Randall and Hopkirk (1969), Columbo (1972), Doctor Who (1981) and The Bill (1995).
In 2004, he published his autobiography, Close Up, in which he wrote frankly about his gay life and friendships. In the book, Fraser wrote that actor Laurence Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager James Woolf. Of Dirk Bogarde, Fraser wrote, "Dirk's life with [Anthony] Forwood had been so respectable, their love for each other so profound and so enduring, it would have been a glorious day for the pursuit of understanding and the promotion of tolerance if he had screwed up the courage ... to make one dignified allusion to his true nature. Self-love is no substitute for self-respect."
