Malcolm Hart

I was born in London 14th August 1931. Because of the Blitz, in 1941 I was sent to a boarding school in Bedfordshire where I stayed until 1948.

In 1949 I attended St Martin's School of Art, graduating in 1953 as an illustrator. I married and we joined my parents and brothers in Johannesburg, South Africa arriving in time for the promulgation into law of Apartheid. My wife and I were outspoken supporters of the ANC and the left wing activists of the time. By 1957 it was time to leave. We hitch-hiked back to England.

My first career was in advertising as an Art Director, started in Johannesburg and then continued on our return to London. By 1962 I was Creative Director on the board of a medium sized agency and, by this time, bored with advertising.

I had always been a keen photographer (my father was an amateur; there was always a 'dark room' in our house). In 1963 I resigned from Advertising (as well as from my marriage) and emigrated to New York to begin a successful career as a fashion photographer.

In 1967 I returned to London and began taking an interest in movie making. I wrote an outline that became a successful Hollywood movie called Vanishing Point. Synchronicity brought me into contact with a filmmaker (Rosco in my Memoirs) and we started making the amazingly successful auteur movie The Arousing. My life, until the birth of my daughters, is well documented in the Memoirs.