Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde


Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 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 (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham) was the art editor of The Times and his mother Margaret Niven was a former actress. He attended the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow, a time he described as unhappy in his autobiography, although others have disputed his account [1]. Bogarde served in World War II, reaching the rank of Captain and served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer. In April 1945 he was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he found it difficult to speak for many years afterward. His horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he witnessed in Belsen left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; he wrote in the 1990s that he would disembark from an elevator rather than ride with a German. Ironically, three of his more memorable film roles would be playing a German, one of them as a former SS officer.

Come on George!
1939 [5]
Extra

Dancing with Crime
1947
Policeman

Once a Jolly Swagman
1948
Bill Fox

Esther Waters
1948
William Latch

Boys in Brown
1949
Alfie Rawlins

Quartet
1949
George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")

Dear Mr. Prohack
1949
Charles Prohack

The Woman in Question
1950
R.W. (Bob) Baker

The Blue Lamp
1950
Tom Riley

Blackmailed
1950
Stephen Mundy

So Long at the Fair
1950
George Hathaway

Appointment in London
1952
Wing-Commander Tim Mason

Hunted
1952
Chris Lloyd

Penny Princess
1952
Tony Craig

The Gentle Gunman
1952
Matt Sullivan

They Who Dare
1953
Lt. Graham

The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954
Flight Sgt. MacKay

For Better, for Worse
1954
Tony Howard

Doctor in the House
1954
Dr Simon Sparrow

The Sleeping Tiger
1954
Frank Clemmons

Simba
1955
Alan Howard

Doctor at Sea
1955
Dr. Simon Sparrow

The Spanish Gardener
1956
Jose

Cast a Dark Shadow
1957
Edward "Teddy" Bare

Ill Met by Moonlight
1957
Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka Philedem

Doctor at Large
1957
Dr. Simon Sparrow

Campbell's Kingdom
1957
Bruce Campbell

A Tale of Two Cities
1958
Sydney Carton

The Wind Cannot Read
1958
Flight Lt. Michael Quinn

The Doctor's Dilemma
1958
Louis Dubedat

Libel
1959
Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon/Frank Welney/Number Fifteen

Song Without End
1960
Franz Liszt

The Angel Wore Red
1960
Arturo Carrera

Victim
1961
Melville Farr

We Joined the Navy
1962
Cameo appearance (Dr. Simon Sparrow)

The Singer Not the Song
1961
Anacleto

H.M.S. Defiant
1962
1st Lt. Scott-Padget

The Password is Courage
1962
Sgt. Maj. Charles Coward

The Mind Benders
1963
Dr. Henry Longman

I Could Go On Singing
1963
David Donne

The Servant
1963
Hugo Barrett

Doctor in Distress
1963
Dr. Simon Sparrow

King & Country
1964
Capt. Hargreaves

Hot Enough for June
1964
Nicholas Whistler

The High Bright Sun
1964
Maj. McGuire

Darling
1965
Robert Gold

Modesty Blaise
1966
Gabriel

Blithe Spirit
1966 (TV)
Charles Condomine

Accident
1967
Stephen

Our Mother's House
1967
Charlie Hook

Sebastian
1968
Sebastian

The Fixer
1968
Bibikov

La Caduta degli dei (The Damned)
1969
Frederick Bruckmann

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Stephen

Justine
1969
Pursewarden

Upon This Rock
1970 (TV)
Bonnie Prince Charlie

Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice)
1971
Gustav von Aschenbach

Night Flight from Moscow
1973
Philip Boyle

Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter)
1974
Maximilian Theo Aldorfer

Permission to Kill
1975
Alan Curtis

A Bridge Too Far
1977
Lt. Gen. Frederick 'Boy' Browning

Providence
1977
Claude Langham

Despair
1978
Hermann Hermann

The Patricia Neal Story
1981 (TV)
Roald Dahl

May We Borrow Your Husband?
1986 (TV)
William Harris

The Vision
1987
James Marriner

Daddy Nostalgie
1990
Daddy


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I like "Spanish Gardener" which he plays softer character than later roles.
I meant to watch "Accident", but kept missing it (once recorded on video turned out no picture but sound :( ).
Bogarde was one of the few British actors who didn't go to Hollywood.
I wonder his homosexuality is the reason. :confused:
 
it would seem that hollywood couldn't offer him the roles which he wanted, that would of challenged him as a actor. also being " Britain's number one box office draw of the 1950s, gaining the title of "The Matinee Idol of the Odeon", may be he didn't feel the need.
 
I've only seen HMS Defiant... I own it on DVD. I'm sure it isn't his best film :p
 
Loved him in the Blue Lamp he did nervous psycho very well.

Death in venice is my fave of his.
 
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