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Forwood later lived with his long-term lover, actor Dirk Bogarde, in Amersham, England, and then in France before the couple returned to England shortly before Forwood died in London in 1988. Death. By 1987, Forwood was dying of liver cancer and Parkinson's disease. At this time Bogarde, a heavy smoker, had a minor stroke.
Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde is a total craftsman whose characters define a standard of film acting that has almost disappeared. Unique among British leading men of his generation, Bogarde chose to work consistently with European art-house directors, spurning more lucrative work in Hollywood. The fruits of this decision include his indelible ...
It was 1970 and the cultured Bogarde, once dubbed ‘the idol of the Odeons’,was disenchanted with British cinema, longing for fresh challenges. Invited by director Luchino Visconti to appear in Death in Venice, a seminal film marking his successful transition to European cinema, Dirk and longtime companion Tony Forwood decided to move abroad ...
Not exactly the approved get-up for any visitor to a Scottish hotel. But Dirk Bogarde, at Port Patrick for location shooting, wasn’t worried. He pushed streaks of over-hanging hair from his eyes and began a zestful assault on a pair of kippers. “Disgraceful to sit down to breakfast like that,” murmured a hotel guest at a near-by table.
Jun 19, 2022 · DIRK BOGARDE features in A Bridge Too Far at 2:50pm today (19 June) on Channel 5. ... that his cause of death was a heart attack. Three years prior, in 1996, the star suffered a stroke, and in his ...
Jan 1, 2015 · What wasn’t widely known then is that Bogarde himself was gay: he and his partner, Tony Forwood, lived together from the mid-Fifties until Forwood’s death in 1988. Victim , then, was a very personal film for Bogarde and it was an important one for British social attitudes too: when homosexuality was partially decriminalised in 1967, Victim was credited as an important part of paving the way.
Biography. Sir Dirk Bogarde, distinguished film actor and writer, was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde on March 28, 1921, to Ulric van den Bogaerde, the art editor of “The Times” (London) newspaper, and actress Margaret Niven in the London suburb of Hampstead. He was one of three children, with sister Elizabeth and ...
