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Line 12: One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of [[J.B. Priestley]]'s ''[[The Good Companions]]''. He went on to have starring roles in films such as ''[[El Cid (film)\|El Cid]]'', ''[[The Trials of Oscar Wilde]]'' (playing [[Lord Alfred Douglas]]), and Roman Polanski's ''[[Repulsion (film)\|Repulsion]]''. He is familiar on television, with guest roles in series including ''[[Danger Man]]'' (1964), ''[[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'' (1969), ''[[Columbo (TV series)\|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 with well known actors. In ''Close Up'', Fraser wrote that [[Laurence Harvey]] was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager [[James Woolf]], who "discovered" Harvey in the 1950s. According to Fraser, "As a teenager, [Harvey] started out living with [[Hermione Baddeley]], a blowsy star of intimate revue more than twice his age. Then he married [[Margaret Leighton]], old enough to be his mother [actually Leighton was only six years older than Harvey] but a woman of style. When this marriage was over, he married Joan Cohn, widow of [[Harry Cohn]], managing director of Columbia Pictures. Throughout all these career marriages, he still managed to string Jimmy Woolf along." ~~In 2004, he published his [[autobiography]], ''Close Up'', in which he wrote frankly about his gay life and friendships with well known actors.~~<ref>The Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1318021,00.html "Sexy self-image that revved up Dirk Bogarde"], 2004-10-02</ref> {{Quotation