Dirk Bogarde

Born: 1921-03-28

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring 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). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dirk Bogarde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Damned

as Frederick Bruckmann
Released: 1969-10-30

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new...

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as Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning
Released: 1977-06-15

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...

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The Night Porter

as Maximilian Theo Aldorfer
Released: 1974-04-03

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a...

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The Servant

as Hugo Barrett
Released: 1963-11-14

Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well...

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Death in Venice

as Gustav von Aschenbach
Released: 1971-03-02

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed...

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Darling

as Robert Gold
Released: 1965-08-03

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional...

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Modesty Blaise

as Gabriel
Released: 1966-05-01

Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Stephen
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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Accident

as Stephen
Released: 1967-02-09

Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life...

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H.M.S. Defiant

as Lieut. Scott-Padget
Released: 1962-04-15

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...

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The Serpent

as Philip Boyle
Released: 1973-04-07

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies...

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Our Mother's House

as Charlie Hook
Released: 1967-09-14

Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.

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The Blue Lamp

as Tom Riley
Released: 1950-01-19

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a...

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Victim

as Melville Farr
Released: 1961-08-01

Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving...

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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-06-18

Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with...

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King and Country

as Capt. Hargreaves
Released: 1964-09-05

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The...

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The Gentle Gunman

as Matt Sullivan
Released: 1952-10-23

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain...

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Despair

as Hermann Hermann
Released: 1978-09-20

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate...

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Justine

as Pursewarden
Released: 1969-08-06

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through...

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Once a Jolly Swagman

as Bill Fox
Released: 1949-02-02

A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

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A Tale of Two Cities

as Sydney Carton
Released: 1958-02-07

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the...

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So Long at the Fair

as George Hathaway
Released: 1950-05-31

Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They...

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Doctor at Sea

as Dr. Simon Sparrow
Released: 1955-07-12

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...

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Cast a Dark Shadow

as Edward "Teddy" Bare
Released: 1955-09-20

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his...

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The Fixer

as Bibikov
Released: 1968-12-08

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian...

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Providence

as Claude Langham
Released: 1977-01-25

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and...

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The Mind Benders

as Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman
Released: 1963-02-01

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills...

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Ill Met by Moonlight

as Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"
Released: 1957-01-31

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and...

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The Password Is Courage

as Sergant-Major Charles Coward
Released: 1962-06-01

Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World...

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They Who Dare

as Lieutenant Graham
Released: 1954-02-02

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with...

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Schindler

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 1983-10-01

The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews...

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Hot Enough for June

as Nicholas Whistler
Released: 1964-01-01

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an...

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Quartet

as George Bland
Released: 1948-10-26

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The...

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Dancing with Crime

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1947-06-25

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend...

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Hunted

as Chris Lloyd
Released: 1952-03-17

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across...

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The Sleeping Tiger

as Frank Clemmons
Released: 1954-06-21

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who...

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Song Without End

as Franz Liszt
Released: 1960-08-11

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to...

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Doctor at Large

as Dr Simon Sparrow
Released: 1957-03-26

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a...

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Doctor in Distress

as Dr Simon Sparrow
Released: 1963-07-30

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir...

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We Joined the Navy

as Dr. Simon Sparrow (uncredited)
Released: 1963-05-17

Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting...

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Libel

as Sir Mark Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen
Released: 1959-10-23

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at...

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Campbell's Kingdom

as Bruce Campbell
Released: 1957-09-03

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's...

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The High Bright Sun

as Major McGuire
Released: 1964-11-01

This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to...

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Appointment in London

as Tim Mason
Released: 1953-02-17

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from...

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Blackmailed

as Stephen Mundy
Released: 1951-01-30

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the...

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I Could Go on Singing

as David Donne
Released: 1963-03-07

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits...

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Daddy Nostalgia

as Daddy aka Tony Russell
Released: 1990-09-05

A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's...

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The Patricia Neal Story

as Roald Dahl
Released: 1981-12-08

The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in...

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The Spanish Gardener

as Jose
Released: 1956-12-25

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a...

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Doctor in the House

as Simon Sparrow
Released: 1954-03-23

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them

as Flt Sgt Mackay
Released: 1954-06-01

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret...

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Sebastian

as Sebastian
Released: 1968-01-24

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British...

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Simba

as Alan Howard
Released: 1955-01-07

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans...

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For Better, for Worse

as Tony Howard
Released: 1954-06-20

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents...

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The Singer Not the Song

as Anacleto Comachi
Released: 1961-01-05

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

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The Angel Wore Red

as Arturo Carrera
Released: 1960-04-14

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds...

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Penny Princess

as Tony Craig
Released: 1952-03-24

A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-08-01

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...

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The Woman in Question

as R.W. (Bob) Baker
Released: 1950-10-03

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As...

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The Epic That Never Was

as Himself - Host / Narrator
Released: 1969-09-19

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of...

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The Wind Cannot Read

as Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn
Released: 1958-06-10

A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They...

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Come on George!

as Extra
Released: 1939-12-01

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an...

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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

as (archive footage)
Released: 2019-06-25

Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne,...

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The Vision

as James Marriner
Released: 1987-11-25

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV...

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A Letter To True

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2004-01-01

A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.

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Boys in Brown

as Alfie Rawlins
Released: 1949-12-01

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in...

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Esther Waters

as William Latch
Released: 1948-09-28

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom...

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The Doctor's Dilemma

as Louis Dubedat
Released: 1959-01-01

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of...

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Picture of Europe

as Self
Released: 1990-04-25

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary,...

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Permission to Kill

as Alan Curtis
Released: 1975-11-20

Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector...

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Upon This Rock

as Bonnie Prince Charlie (voice)
Released: 1970-01-01

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

as Self
Released: 1977-01-01

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives...

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Desperate Moment

as Simon Van Halder
Released: 1953-03-17

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can...

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Dear Mr. Prohack

as Charles Prohack
Released: 1949-09-07

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation...

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Little Moon of Alban

as Kenneth Boyd
Released: 1964-03-18

Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming...

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Blithe Spirit

as Charles Condomine
Released: 1966-12-07

Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.

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Rope

as Charles Granillo
Released: 1947-01-05

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite...

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El Rey en Londres

as uncredited
Released: 1966-10-11

The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges

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The Private Dirk Bogarde

as Himself (Archive Footage)
Released: 2001-08-14

Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager,...

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Power Without Glory

as Cliff
Released: 1947-06-01

Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger...

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Dirk Bogarde: By Myself

as Self
Released: 1992-11-23

A two-part interview in which Dirk Bogarde talks about his life and career.

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What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Charles Condomine
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

as Self
First aired: 1993-09-05

Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with...

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Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2013-01-05

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to...

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