Boy Dougdale Anthony Andrews Boy Dougdale -- known as the "Lecherous Lecturer" to the girls -- is a dandy ostracized for marrying an aristocrat half his age. We first meet Boy at Lady Montdore's home, where he panders to his mistress's vanity and is not (perhaps unwisely) seen as a threat by her husband, Lord Montdore. Actor Anthony Andrews admits he needed some convincing before he accepted the part of Boy Dougdale. "Let's be honest -- he's pretty revolting," smiles Andrews. "When you read the books, and indeed the wonderful scripts, you realize that this man is the catalyst for the downfall of everything. It all goes wrong when he is on the scene. Boy is a role player. If you are talking about art, he is in his element, but it would be the same if you discussed the aristocracy, houses, architecture, whatever. So in that sense he is the perfect houseguest. He's perfectly suited to Lady Montdore in a way, because his masterly approach to all these subjects makes him ideal dinner-party fodder, ideal socializing material." In a career spanning three decades, Andrews is perhaps best known for playing Sebastian Flyte in the award-winning adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Other notable television credits include ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's Upstairs, Downstairs, as well as David (as Steerforth in 1974 and as Mr. Murdstone in 2000), The Scarlet Pimpemel, Ivanhoe, The Pallisers, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, AD Anno Domini, and Mothertime. He now runs his own successful production company. He lives in London and Wiltshire with his wife and children. In Mitford's words: Boy Dougdale ... He gave me the creeps, with his crinkly black hair going grey now and his perky, jaunty figure. He was shorter than his wife and tried to make up for this by having very thick soles to his shoes. He always looked horribly pleased with himself; the corners of his mouth turned up when his face was in repose, and if he was at all put out they turned up even more in a maddening smile. Love in a Cold Climate, Part I, Chapter 3