Dirk Bogarde
Date of birth: 1921-03-28
Place of birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, Derek Bogaerde, Sir Dirk Bogarde
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.
Movie Credits
Hot Enough for June
1964-03-10
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag
El Rey en Londres
1966-10-11
The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges
Our Mother's House
1967-09-14
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai
A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
A Bridge Too Far
1977-06-15
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969-03-10
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th
Death in Venice
1971-03-05
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with
Darling
1965-08-03
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affecti
Sebastian
1968-01-24
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Int
The Night Porter
1974-04-03
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel
The Woman in Question
1950-10-03
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955-09-20
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older w
Despair
1978-09-15
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu
Modesty Blaise
1966-05-01
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of he
The Damned
1969-10-30
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictato
Justine
1969-08-06
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa
The Servant
1963-11-14
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well
H.M.S. Defiant
1962-04-15
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty
Victim
1961-08-01
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t
For Better, for Worse
1954-06-20
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no
The Serpent
1973-04-07
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes ov
The Wind Cannot Read
1958-06-10
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They sta
Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
1992-11-23
A two-part interview in which Dirk Bogarde talks about his life and career.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954-06-01
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor
Doctor in the House
1954-03-23
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 an
Doctor at Sea
1955-07-12
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a
Doctor at Large
1957-03-26
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a memb
Doctor in Distress
1963-07-30
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc
So Long at the Fair
1950-05-31
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both
The Password Is Courage
1962-06-01
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War
Penny Princess
1952-03-24
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and
The Mind Benders
1963-02-01
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills him
The Gentle Gunman
1952-10-23
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Te
Providence
1977-01-25
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sle
The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new
Appointment in London
1953-02-17
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England.
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957-01-31
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle
Accident
1967-02-09
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in
Dancing with Crime
1947-06-25
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve
The Sleeping Tiger
1954-06-21
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes
Campbell's Kingdom
1957-09-03
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom
Simba
1955-01-07
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans again
I Could Go on Singing
1963-03-07
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits Davi
The Fixer
1968-12-08
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish p
King and Country
1964-09-05
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The office
Libel
1959-10-23
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his
The Singer Not the Song
1961-01-05
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Quartet
1948-10-26
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949-02-02
A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Daddy Nostalgia
1990-09-05
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart
The Spanish Gardener
1956-12-25
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small c
May We Borrow Your Husband?
1986-05-13
An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a rela
Song Without End
1960-08-11
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to aban
Hunted
1952-03-17
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across Engl
Permission to Kill
1975-11-20
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from l
They Who Dare
1954-02-02
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with ord
The High Bright Sun
1964-11-01
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free it
Esther Waters
1948-09-28
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William
The Doctor's Dilemma
1959-01-01
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them
Blackmailed
1951-01-30
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication i
The Angel Wore Red
1960-04-14
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himsel
Desperate Moment
1953-03-17
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear hi
Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for
Boys in Brown
1949-12-01
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a ro
The Patricia Neal Story
1981-12-08
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966
The Epic That Never Was
1969-09-19
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its s
Pictures of Europe
1990-04-25
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures
Blithe Spirit
1966-12-07
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and
Upon This Rock
1970-01-01
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Come on George!
1939-12-01
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious r
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
2019-06-25
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Mal
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985-01-01
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to b
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
2021-07-30
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed h
Empire of the Censors
1995-05-28
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2005-07-30
Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives beh
Boys Don't Cry
2000-02-25
A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.
The Vision
1987-11-25
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel
Schindler
1983-10-01
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — m
We Joined the Navy
1963-05-17
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a
The Private Dirk Bogarde
2001-08-14
Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Fo
A Letter to True
2004-01-01
A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.
Rope
1947-01-05
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his
Little Moon of Alban
1964-03-18
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a n
Power Without Glory
1947-06-01
Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brothe
Visconti's Venice
1970-07-01
A behind-the-scenes documentary produced during the original release of the film. The promotional pi
The Case of Helvig Delbo
1947-07-22
A true story of wartime espionage reconstructed for television by Robert Barr. In Denmark in 1943 tw
Catch a Fallen Star
1987-12-23
A portrait of Jessie Matthews, a once famous British singer, dancer and film star
Lionpower from MGM
1967-01-01
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel