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 suppressed portions of Wilde's "De Profundis" letter in 1912, Douglas turned against his former friend, whose homosexuality he grew to condemn. He was a defence witness in the libel case brought by Maud Allan against Noel Pemberton Billing in 1918. Billing had accused Allan, who was performing Wilde's play "Salome", of being part of a homosexual conspiracy to undermine the war effort. Douglas also contributed to Billing's journal "Vigilante" as part of his campaign against Robbie Ross. He had written a poem referring to Margot Asquith "bound with Lesbian fillets" while her husband Herbert, the Prime Minister, gave money to