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- He was a great self- portraitist and the screen persona he fashioned, a stylisation of his private being, not only dominated its surroundings but spoke subliminally and powerfully to British audiences about the tensions of the time, about the connivances and cruel respectabilities of England in the Fifties and Sixties.
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Mar 23, 2021 · Why did Dirk want to play a character defined by the most horrific act of the 20th Century?
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Dec 22, 2001 · In his public life he moved from teenage heart-throb to art-house icon to man of letters. But in private who really was Dirk Bogarde and why did he conceal so much of his past? On the eve of...
Having come to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, Bogarde starred 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).
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.
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.
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May 9, 1999 · Dirk Bogarde was a major figure because, wherever they were made, his finest films are all somehow about him.
Mar 26, 2021 · But any observant fan should have known that Bogarde was a flawed figure. His legendarily catty and rather whining television interview with Russell Harty in 1986 made him look like a miserable git, when his life seemed on the surface such a portrait of aesthetic bliss.
