Dirk Bogarde
Acting
- Born:
- 1921-03-28
- Died:
- 1999-05-08
- Place of birth:
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring in the successful Doctor film series (1954–1963). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dirk Bogarde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Talking Pictures
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
A Letter to True
The Private Dirk Bogarde
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Boys Don't Cry
Empire of the Censors
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
Daddy Nostalgia
Pictures of Europe
Catch a Fallen Star
The Vision
May We Borrow Your Husband?
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Schindler
The Patricia Neal Story
Despair
A Bridge Too Far
Providence
Permission to Kill
The Night Porter
The Serpent
Film '72
Death in Venice
Visconti's Venice
Upon This Rock
The Damned
The Epic That Never Was
Justine
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Fixer
Sebastian
Our Mother's House
Accident
Lionpower from MGM
Blithe Spirit
El Rey en Londres
Modesty Blaise
Darling
King and Country
The High Bright Sun
Little Moon of Alban
Hot Enough for June
The Servant
Doctor in Distress
We Joined the Navy
I Could Go on Singing
The Mind Benders
The Password Is Courage
H.M.S. Defiant
Victim
The Singer Not the Song
Song Without End
The Angel Wore Red
Libel
The Doctor's Dilemma
The Wind Cannot Read
A Tale of Two Cities
Campbell's Kingdom
Doctor at Large
Ill Met by Moonlight
The Spanish Gardener
Cast a Dark Shadow
Doctor at Sea
Simba
The Sleeping Tiger
For Better, for Worse
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Doctor in the House
They Who Dare
The Oscars
Desperate Moment
Appointment in London
The Postman
The Gentle Gunman
Penny Princess
Hunted
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Blackmailed
The Woman in Question
So Long at the Fair
What's My Line?
The Blue Lamp
Boys in Brown
Dear Mr. Prohack
Once a Jolly Swagman
Quartet
Esther Waters
The Case of Helvig Delbo
Dancing with Crime
Power Without Glory
Rope
Come on George!