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      Dirk Bogarde

      Dirk Bogarde

      Highest Rated: 100% I Could Go on Singing (1963)

      Lowest Rated: 29% Sebastian (1968)

      Birthday: Mar 28, 1921

      Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England, UK

      With the refinement of Britain's national cinema after World War II came the rise of Dirk Bogarde as one of its shining stars. A former stage actor whom playwright Noël Coward begged not to forsake the theatre, Bogarde became a box office powerhouse with his charismatic performances as a cop killer in "The Blue Lamp" (1950) and as the medical school hero of "Doctor in the House" (1954). Equally adept at drama or comedy, Bogarde attracted the attention of Hollywood but his star turn as composer Franz Liszt in "Song Without End" (1960) came close to being a career-killer. At home, Bogarde gambled on his reputation as a romantic lead by accepting edgy roles in films that hinted at his safeguarded homosexuality, among them the fetish Western "The Singer Not the Song" (1960), the courtroom drama "Victim" (1960), and "The Servant" (1963), with Bogarde cast as a scheming valet who manipulates his naive employer. Having worked with such top-flight directors as Basil Dearden, John Schlesinger and John Frankenheimer, and enjoyed a long-running collaboration with American expatriate Joseph Losey, Bogarde capped his career on the Continent, making films in Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, and France for Luchino Visconti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alain Renais, and Liliana Cavani. Felled by a stroke in 1996, Bogarde devoted his final years to finishing his memoirs, leaving behind at the time of his death in 1999 an admirable body of work and a detailed chronicle of a life lived entirely on his own terms.

      Highest rated movies

      I Could Go on Singing
      Damn the Defiant!
      Victim
      The Servant
      King and Country
      Daddy Nostalgia
      Doctor in the House
      The Damned

      Photos

      THE WIND CANNOT READ, Yoko Tani, Dirk Bogarde, 1958, (c) 20th Century-Fox Film, TM & Copyright THE BLUE LAMP, Patric Doonan, Dirk Bogarde, 1950 THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, from left: Felix Aylmer, Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Caron, 1958 DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, Dirk Bogarde, 1954 DOCTOR AT SEA, Brigitte Bardot, Dirk Bogarde, 1955 SO LONG AT THE FAIR, Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, 1950 ESTHER WATERS, Dirk Bogarde, Lalage Lewis, Kathleen Ryan, 1948 ESTHER WATERS, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, 1948 DOCTOR AT SEA, James Robertson-Justice, Dirk Bogarde, Brenda De Banzie, 1955 A TALE OF TWO CITIES, Paul Guers, Dirk Bogarde, 1958 LIBEL, Olivia De Havilland, Robert Morley, Dirk Bogarde, 1959 THE STRANGER IN BETWEEN, Dirk Bogard, Elizabeth Sellers, 1952 LIBEL, from left: Robert Morley, Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, 1959 THE ANGEL WORE RED, Aldo Fabrizi, Dirk Bogarde, 1960 ACCIDENT, from top: Dirk Bogarde, Jacqueline Sassard, 1967 accident1967-fsct04(accident1967-fsct04) SONG WITHOUT END, from left: Lou Jacobi, Genevieve Page, Dirk Bogarde as Franz Liszt (rear), Patricia Morison as George Sand, Alex Davion as Frederic Chopin, 1960 THE ANGEL WORE RED, Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, 1960 DARLING, Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie, 1965 DOCTOR AT LARGE, Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, 1957 SEBASTIAN, Dirk Bogarde (rear), Nigel Davenport, 1968

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      50% No Score Yet A Letter to True Self $13.8K 2004
      88% 81% Daddy Nostalgia Daddy (Character) $10.2K 1990
      No Score Yet No Score Yet These Foolish Things Daddy (Character) - 1990
      No Score Yet No Score Yet May We Borrow Your Husband? William Harris (Character) - 1988
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Vision James Marriner (Character) - 1988
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Schindler Narrator - 1982
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Patricia Neal Story Roald Dahl (Character) - 1981
      65% 76% Despair Hermann Hermann (Character) - 1979
      59% 86% A Bridge Too Far Lieutenant General Browning (Character) - 1977
      80% 87% Providence Claude Langham (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Permission to Kill Alan Curtis (Character) - 1975
      67% 69% The Night Porter Maximilian Theo Aldorfer (Character) - 1974
      No Score Yet 62% Night Flight From Moscow Philip Boyle (Character) - 1973
      71% 81% Death in Venice Gustav von Aschenbach (Character) - 1971
      80% 72% Oh! What a Lovely War Stephen (Character) - 1969
      84% 82% The Damned Frederick Bruckmann (Character) - 1969
      No Score Yet 36% Justine Pursewarden (Character) - 1969
      56% 62% The Fixer Bibikov (Character) - 1968
      29% 55% Sebastian Sebastian (Character) - 1968
      60% 77% Our Mother's House Charlie Hook (Character) - 1967
      76% 72% Accident Stephen (Character) $17.2K 1967
      50% 34% Modesty Blaise Gabriel (Character) - 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Blithe Spirit Charles Condomine (Character) - 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet McGuire, Go Home! Maj. McGuire (Character) - 1965
      67% 70% Darling Robert Gold (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet 83% The Epic That Never Was Narrator - 1965
      No Score Yet 33% Doctor in Distress Dr. Simon Sparrow (Character) - 1964
      89% 80% King and Country Capt. Hargreaves (Character) - 1964
      No Score Yet 39% Agent 8 3/4 Nicholas Whistler (Character) - 1963
      100% 75% I Could Go on Singing David Donne (Character) - 1963
      90% 89% The Servant Hugo Barrett (Character) $20.7K 1963
      No Score Yet 30% The Mind Benders Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman (Character) - 1963
      100% 63% Damn the Defiant! Lieut. Scott-Padget (Character) - 1962
      No Score Yet 61% The Password Is Courage Sergant-Major Charles Coward (Character) - 1962
      100% 87% Victim Melville Farr (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet 69% The Singer Not the Song Anacleto Comachi (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet 36% The Angel Wore Red Arturo Carrera (Character) - 1960
      83% 43% Song Without End Franz Liszt (Character) - 1960
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Libel Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon/Frank Welney (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 25% Campbell's Kingdom Bruce Campbell (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doctor's Dilemma Louis Debedat (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet 48% Night Ambush Major Patrick Leigh Fermor (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet 49% A Tale of Two Cities Sydney Carton (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wind Cannot Read Flight Lt. Michael Quinn (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet 30% Doctor at Large Dr. Simon Sparrow (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet 44% The Spanish Gardener Jose (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet 0% Simba Alan Howard (Character) - 1955
      83% 60% Cast a Dark Shadow Edward "Teddy" Bare (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet 33% Doctor at Sea Dr. Simon Sparrow (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet No Score Yet For Better, For Worse Tony Howard (Character) - 1954
      86% 42% Doctor in the House Simon Sparrow (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet 45% The Sleeping Tiger Frank Clemmons (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sea Shall Not Have Them Flight Sgt. MacKay (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet 0% They Who Dare Lieut. Graham (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Penny Princess Tony Craig (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperate Moment Simon Van Halder (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet 50% Appointment in London Wing-Commander Tim Mason (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet 58% Hunted Chris Lloyd (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gentle Gunman Matt Sullivan (Character) - 1952
      83% 69% The Blue Lamp Tom Riley (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 64% Five Angles on Murder R.W. "Bob" Baker (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 69% So Long at the Fair George Hathaway (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Boys in Brown Alfie Rawlins (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Dear Mr. Prohack Charles Prohack (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Once a Jolly Swagman Bill Fox (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet 62% Quartet George Bland (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Esther Waters William Latch (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet 60% Come on George Extra (Character) - 1939