Dirk Bogarde

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AKA: Dirk van den Bogaerde, Derek Niven van den Bogaerde, Sir Dirk Bogarde
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 03/28/1921
Birthplace: Hampstead, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 05/08/1999

biography

A celebrated actor of Belgian and Scottish descent, Dirk Bogarde was one of Britain's most popular leading men of the 1950s and early 60s, making his name in mostly routine light comedies (as Simon Sparrow in the popular Rank "Doctor" series) and melodramas before attracting serious attention for his role as a blackmailed homosexual lawyer in Basil Dearden's "Victim" (1961). The response to his corrupt valet who comes to dominate his "master" in Joseph Losey's "The Servant" (1963) seemed to convince Bogarde that he was not just handsome but intelligent and talented, and he took greater care in Continued

Credits

A Letter to True
Himself
2004
Daddy Nostalgia
Daddy
1990
Providence
Claude Langham
1977
Death in Venice
Gustav Von Aschenbach
1971
The Damned
Friedrich Bruckmann
1969
The Servant
Barrett
1963
The Sleeping Tiger
Frank Clements
1954
Le Serpent
Boyle
Upon This Rock
Prince Charlie
Modesty Blaise
Gabriel
Darling
Robert Gold
The Angel Wore Red
Arturo Carrera
The Doctor's Dilemma
Louis Dubedat
H.M.S. Defiant
Lieutenant Scott-Padget
Justine
Pursewarden
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Flight Sergeant Mackay
The Fixer
Bibikov
I Could Go on Singing
David Donne
For Better For Worse
Tony Howard
They Who Dare
Lieutenant Graham
The High Bright Sun
Maj McGuire
Agent 8 3/4
Nicholas Whistler
Simba
Howard
Despair
Hermann Hermann
Doctor at Sea
Dr Simon Sparrow
Doctor in the House
Dr Simon Sparrow
The Vision
James Marriner
The Password Is Courage
Charles Coward
Victim
Melville Farr
Cast a Dark Shadow
Edward Bare
The Spanish Gardener
Jose
The Night Porter
Max
Sebastian
Sebastian
Night Ambush
Major "Paddy" Leigh-Fermer
The Wind Cannot Read
Flt Lt Michael Quinn
Our Mother's House
Charlie Hook
A Bridge Too Far
Lieutenant General Frederick "Boy" Browning
The Singer Not the Song
Anacleto
King and Country
Captain Hargraves
Doctor at Large
Simon
Accident
Stephen
Libel
Frank Welney
A Tale of Two Cities
Sydney Carton
Permission to Kill
Alan Curtis
The Mind Benders
Dr Henry Longman
Song Without End
Franz Liszt

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Worked as a carpenter at the Q Theater in the suburbs of London at age 14; graduated to scene painting and designing and eventually to stage managing
 
Began acting career with Amersham Repertory Company; made stage debut in "When We Are Married" replacing an actor who fell ill
1939 
Film debut (as an extra) in "Come On George"
1941 
Enlisted in British Army; took part in the Normandy Landings
 
After war, sent to Burma and Java; wrote for army newspaper and Radio Batavia programs
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