German filmmaker, model, artist and porn star Peter Berlin was BOTD in 1942. Born in Łódź in Nazi-occupied Poland, he grew up in Berlin in a wealthy middle-class family. He became a commercial photographer in the 1960s, photographing film stars including Alfred Hitchcock, Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot and Klaus Kinski. In his spare time, he designed and made his own skin-tight fetish wear which he wore when cruising for gay sex, taking hundreds of photographs of himself in erotic poses. He emigrated to the United States in the 1970s, settling in San Francisco, California, where he became a fixture of the burgeoning gay scene. A popular artist’s model, he was photographed by Andy Warhol, Tom of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe, who became obsessed with Berlin’s athletic Aryan beauty. He also wrote, directed and starred in two gay porn films, Nights in Black Leather and That Boy which became underground hits. After a fallow period during the 1980s, he made a comeback with the release of the 2005 documentary That Man: Peter Berlin, prompting retrospectives of his work. He lives in San Francisco; his current relationship status is unknown.