Dream Gaze–Model turned actor Douglas Booth drifts into a euphoria for a feature on Mr Porter's online interactive magazine. Photographed by Laurence Ellis
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Real-life characters dominate his immediate future as an actor, with a starring role as the vaudevillian comedian Mr Dan Leno in The Limehouse Golem up first. At the mere mention of his latest movie...
A gifted athlete and ace acrobatic pilot in the RAF, Bader lost both his legs after crashing his plane practising for an air show, one amputated above and one below the knee. His account of the accident was magnificently reserved: “Crashed slow-rolling near ground. Bad show.”What he lacked in limbs he made up for with sheer brilliance. Bader retaught himself to fly with prosthetics and repassed all his certifications. Despite this, his superiors refused to pass him fit for service, and he was retired from flying against his will in 1931.When World War II broke out in 1939, Bader was given the chance he'd waited for, and on his return to the air quickly established a fearsome record of 20 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damage.In August 1941, Bader was shot down (probably the victim of friendly fire) and captured. So respected was the fighter ace by German forces that Hermann Göring himself gave the green light for the British to deliver a new prosthetic leg.Despite his disability, Bader made a number of escape attempts, proving himself such a nuisance he was eventually transferred to Colditz Castle, where he remained until the prison was liberated by US troops in 1945.
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