Mini Biography
At the beginning of his career, Dirk Bogarde turned down an offer from Fox, who wanted to turn him into its new Spanish star and marry him off to one of its starlets, and instead signed a contract with Rank. In the 1960s, he moved to France and became a star of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Cavani and other European directors. Bogarde was also a novelist and serial autobiographer.
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- Esther Waters (1948)
- William Latch
- Quartet (1948)
- George Bland
- Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
- Bill Fox
- Dear Mr Prohack (1949)
- Charles Prohack
- Boys in Brown (1949)
- Alfie Rawlins
- So Long at the Fair (1950)
- George Hathaway
- The Blue Lamp (1950)
- Tom Riley
- The Woman in Question (1950)
- R W ‘Bob’ Baker
- The Gentle Gunman (1952)
- Matt Sullivan
- Penny Princess (1952)
- Tony Craig
- Hunted (1952)
- Chris Lloyd
- Appointment in London (1953)
- Tim Mason
- The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
- Flight Sgt MacKay
- For Better, for Worse (1954)
- Tony
- The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
- Frank Clemmons
- Doctor in the House (1954)
- Simon Sparrow
- They Who Dare (1954)
- Lt David Graham
- Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
- Edward Bare
- Doctor at Sea (1955)
- Dr Simon Sparrow
- The Spanish Gardener (1956)
- Jose
- Campbell’s Kingdom (1957)
- Bruce Campbell
- Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
- Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO OBE also known to the Cretans and the German Secret Police as PHILEDEM
- Doctor at Large (1957)
- Dr Simon Sparrow
- The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
- Flight Lt Michael Quinn
- A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
- Sydney Carton
- Victim (1961)
- Melville Farr
- The Singer Not the Song (1961)
- Anacleto Comachi
- HMS Defiant (1962)
- Lieut. Scott-Padget
- The Password Is Courage (1962)
- Sergant-Major Charles Coward
- The Servant (1963)
- Barrett
- I Could Go on Singing (1963)
- David Donne
- The Mind Benders (1963)
- Dr Henry Laidlaw Longman
- Doctor in Distress (1963)
- Dr Simon Sparrow
- Hot Enough for June (1964)
- Nicholas Whistler
- King & Country (1964)
- Capt Hargreaves
- The High Bright Sun (1965)
- Maj McGuire
- Darling (1965)
- Robert Gold
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Gabriel
- Accident (1967)
- Stephen
- Our Mother’s House (1967)
- Charlie Hook
- The Fixer (1968)
- Bibikov
- The Night Porter (1974)
- Max
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Lt Gen Frederick Browning
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Personal Details
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Died
Dirk Bogarde died of a heart attack in Chelsea, London on , aged 78.
Born
Dirk Bogarde was born (as Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde) in Hampstead, London on .
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- Discovering Film
- Sky TV series featuring in-depth profiles of individual film stars.
- Discovering: Dirk Bogarde (2017, S9)
- Tomorrow at 6am on Sky Documentaries HD
- Movie experts reflect on the career of Dirk Bogarde, the great English actor known for his complex roles in the dark films Victim, Death in Venice and The Night Porter.
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Dirk Bogarde News
- New BBC 3 radio drama about the making of the 1961 film, Victim
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6th July, 2017
- BBC Radio 3 to broadcast a new drama about the making of the 1961 film, Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde. Written by Sarah Wooley.