Table of Contents

Foreword 1 The Ancient House Of My Birth 2 The Wartime Years 3 Childhood In Normandy 4 Background To The Fallen Idol 5 The Making Of The Fallen Idol 6 Coping With Success 7 Why Not Another Film? 8 School After Filming 9 The End Of Schooling 10 Oxford 11 Exile In London 12 My Grandmother's Death 13 South America And Marriage 14 Children 15 The Watershed 16 Survival 17 Exorcising The Spell 18 Looking Back On The Fallen Idol 19 Further Bumps In The Road 20 Through Grown-up Eyes Epilogue Appendix: Where Are The Snows Of Yesteryear?

About the Author

Born in France in 1940, Robert Henrey spent his early childhood with his parents in Mayfair before being chosen to play the role of Phillipe in The Fallen Idol at the age of eight in 1948, directed by Carol Reed and starring Ralph Richardson. After a part in a subsequent film, Wonder Boy, Robert was sent off to boarding school before going Oxford University where he met and later married his wife, Lisette. The couple settled in New York before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, where they now live. Robert is an ordained Catholic deacon and is now retired.