Lord Alfred Douglas Wilde", both released in 1960, Douglas was portrayed by John Neville and John Fraser respectively. In the 1997 British film "Wilde", Douglas was portrayed by Jude Law. In the upcoming 2018 film "The Happy Prince", he will be portrayed by Colin Morgan. Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 187020 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own
Lord Alfred Douglas Ross. During the trial he described Wilde as "the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last three hundred and fifty years".Douglas added that he intensely regretted having met Wilde, and having helped him with the translation of "Salome", which he described as "a most pernicious and abominable piece of work". In 1920 Douglas founded a right-wing, Catholic, and "deeply anti-Jewish" weekly magazine called "Plain English", on which he collaborated with Harold Sherwood Spencer, and to begin with Thomas William Hodgson Crosland. It regarded itself as the successor to "The Academy", to which Douglas had been