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- He gained attention for his role in the light comedy Doctor in the House (1954) and its sequels, but he later excelled in darker, more complex character roles, such as the blackmailed gay lawyer in Victim (1961), the sinister manservant in The Servant (1963), and the doomed Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice (1971).
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Sparrow captured the public imagination, and it was rare to find a film magazine in the 50s that didn't feature Dirk frowning under a soft forelock of dark hair. Contracted to British studio...
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Dec 22, 2001 · The scene is a dark obverse to those sunny glimpses of domestic glamour in the Home Counties or Provence – the private life Bogarde had built for himself, and behind which he could retreat.
He did his second Doctor film, Doctor at Sea (1955), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles; played a returning colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba (1955); Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them; The Spanish Gardener (1956), with ...
Mar 23, 2021 · Why did Dirk want to play a character defined by the most horrific act of the 20th Century? “He’d seen a lot of bad stuff,” says Coldstream, referring to Bogarde’s time in the Allied Forces during World War Two, when he visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following its liberation.
May 20, 2019 · Bogarde – finally free of his studio contract – was considered to be risking his career and reputation by taking the role: it says much that he went ahead and did it anyway, playing the barrister fighting the blackmailers of a young man with whom he has had a deeply emotional relationship.
Mar 12, 2024 · The role was an ‘absolute turning point’, he agreed later, ‘which secured me in my profession.’ By 1955, Bogarde was billed as the Idol of the Odeons. Cinema managers voted him ‘the World’s Greatest Money-Drawing Star’. Nevertheless, his dark sullenness quickly edged into mannerism and camp. He was the first to admit this.
Jun 26, 2024 · Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor who was one of Great Britain’s most popular leading men in the 1950s. Bogarde was the son of a Dutch-born art critic. He made his stage debut in 1939 and won a film contract from the Rank studios after World War II.
