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Dirk Bogarde Pictures & Biography
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Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (March 28, 1921 - May 8, 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author.
Bogarde was born in West Hampstead, London, of mixed Dutch and Scottish ancestry. His father Ulric van den Bogaerde was the art editor of The Times and his mother Margaret Niven was a former actress. He joined the army and served in World War II, after which his good looks helped him begin a career as a film actor, contracted to The Rank Organisation. His 1950 appearance as the criminal, Tom Riley, who shoots Police Constable George Dixon in The Blue Lamp launched him as a lead player, but it was the comedy, Doctor in the House (1954), that made him a star. He quickly became a matinee idol.
Sir Dirk BogardeDuring the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde gradually abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as Hugo Barrett in The Servant (directed by Joseph Losey); the ex-Nazi, Max, in The Night Porter (1974); Melville Farr in Victim (1961); Stephen, a bored University professor, in Accident (1967), and, most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice (1971) directed by Luchino Visconti. In all he made 63 films between 1939 and 1991.
In 1975 he embarked on his second career - as an author. Starting with a first volume A Postillion Struck by Lightning, he wrote a series of autobiographical volumes, novels and book reviews.
Bogarde never married and, even during his lifetime, was reported to be homosexual. For many years he shared a home with a male friend, his manager Anthony (Tony) Forwood (a former husband of the actress Glynis Johns and ironically the father of her only child, actor Gareth Forwood), but repeatedly denied that their relationship was anything other than platonic. In 2001, however, a British documentary called "The Private Dirk Bogarde", produced in agreement with Bogarde's family, made it very clear that he and Forwood had a lifelong commitment.
His only serious relationship with a woman seems to have been with the bisexual and very troubled French actress, Capucine.
Dirk Bogarde was knighted in 1992 for his services to acting, and he died in London from a heart attack on 8 May 1999, aged 78.
Dirk Bogarde Filmography
Actor
• A Letter to True (2004)
• The Dirk Bogarde Collection (2001)
• Daddy Nostalgia (1990)
• The Vision (1987)
• Despair (1979)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• To See Such Fun (1977)
• Providence (1976)
• The Night Porter (1973)
• Night Flight From Moscow (1972)
• Death in Venice (1971)
• Justine (1969)
• The Damned (1969)
• The Fixer (1968)
• Accident (1967)
• Modesty Blaise (1966)
• Darling (1965)
• King and Country (1964)
• Doctor in Distress (1963)
• I Could Go on Singing (1963)
• The Servant (1963)
• The Mind Benders (1963)
• Damn the Defiant! (1962)
• Victim (1961)
• Victim (1961)
• Song Without End (1960)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
• Cast a Dark Shadow (1957)
• Doctor at Large (1957)
• Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
• Night Ambush (1957)
• The Spanish Gardener (1957)
• Doctor at Sea (1955)
• The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1955)
• Doctor in the House (1954)
• The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
• They Who Dare (1954)
• Appointment in London (1952)
• Maniacs on Wheels (1951)
• The Woman in Question (1950)
• Quartet (1948)
• Mystery and Suspense Collection
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