Dirk Bogarde
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.143 |
| Birthday | 1921-03-28 |
| Place of Birth | Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, Derek Bogaerde, Sir Dirk Bogarde, |
1964
Hot Enough for June
6.1/21
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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Hot Enough for June
1966
El Rey en Londres
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El Rey en Londres
1967
Our Mother's House
7.1/42
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
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Our Mother's House
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
0/0
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
6.7/18
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay....
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A Tale of Two Cities
1977
A Bridge Too Far
7.227/836
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A Bridge Too Far
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
6.7/44
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1971
Death in Venice
7.3/488
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Death in Venice
1965
Darling
6.7/132
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Darling
1968
Sebastian
6/11
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian f...
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Sebastian
1974
The Night Porter
6.8/338
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-...
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The Night Porter
1950
The Woman in Question
6/18
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions...
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The Woman in Question
1955
Cast a Dark Shadow
6.4/52
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When thi...
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Cast a Dark Shadow
1978
Despair
6.524/42
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Despair
1966
Modesty Blaise
5.2/66
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Modesty Blaise
1969
The Damned
7.3/208
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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The Damned
1969
Justine
4.1/11
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Justine
1963
The Servant
7.6/340
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The Servant
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
6.466/44
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H.M.S. Defiant
1961
Victim
7.5/142
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Victim
1954
For Better, for Worse
5.6/9
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.1...
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For Better, for Worse
1973
The Serpent
6.1/44
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-exami...
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The Serpent
1958
The Wind Cannot Read
6.2/11
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and...
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The Wind Cannot Read
1992
Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
0/0
A two-part interview in which Dirk Bogarde talks about his life and career.
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Dirk Bogarde: By Myself
1954
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
7.143/14
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fi...
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954
Doctor in the House
6.4/28
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...
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Doctor in the House
1963
Doctor in Distress
6.1/13
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Doctor in Distress
1955
Doctor at Sea
5.3/19
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape t...
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Doctor at Sea
1957
Doctor at Large
5.646/24
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bog...
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Doctor at Large
1950
So Long at the Fair
6.7/38
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the...
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So Long at the Fair
1962
The Password Is Courage
6.348/23
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp,...
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The Password Is Courage
1952
Penny Princess
6.4/5
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric...
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Penny Princess
1963
The Mind Benders
6.375/24
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might ha...
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The Mind Benders
1952
The Gentle Gunman
6.2/11
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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The Gentle Gunman
1977
Providence
6.8/62
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Providence
1950
The Blue Lamp
6.6/54
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...
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The Blue Lamp
1953
Appointment in London
6.2/14
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortl...
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Appointment in London
1957
Ill Met by Moonlight
6.1/40
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
1967
Accident
6.2/102
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Accident
1947
Dancing with Crime
6.1/19
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a maj...
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Dancing with Crime
1954
The Sleeping Tiger
5.6/27
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wish...
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The Sleeping Tiger
1957
Campbell's Kingdom
5.6/15
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...
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Campbell's Kingdom
1955
Simba
6.5/13
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-...
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Simba
1963
I Could Go on Singing
6/23
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few...
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I Could Go on Singing
1968
The Fixer
5.8/23
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The Fixer
1964
King and Country
7.12/54
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Cap...
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King and Country
1959
Libel
6.955/22
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet i...
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Libel
1948
Quartet
6/14
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Quartet
1961
The Singer Not the Song
6.8/15
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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The Singer Not the Song
1949
Once a Jolly Swagman
5.4/13
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1990
Daddy Nostalgia
7.1/16
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with hi...
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Daddy Nostalgia
1956
The Spanish Gardener
6.2/16
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harri...
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The Spanish Gardener
1986
May We Borrow Your Husband?
0/0
An author seeking solitude in a small hotel in the South of France is an unwilling witness to a relationship between a young couple and two interior d...
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May We Borrow Your Husband?
1960
Song Without End
4.8/16
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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Song Without End
1952
Hunted
6.7/37
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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Hunted
1975
Permission to Kill
5.6/5
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead...
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Permission to Kill
1954
They Who Dare
5.6/21
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaf...
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They Who Dare
1964
The High Bright Sun
5.4/10
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serv...
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The High Bright Sun
1948
Esther Waters
5.9/7
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter....
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Esther Waters
1960
The Angel Wore Red
5.3/9
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
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The Angel Wore Red
1959
The Doctor's Dilemma
6.1/8
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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The Doctor's Dilemma
1953
Desperate Moment
0/1
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
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Desperate Moment
1951
Blackmailed
3.5/2
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young arti...
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Blackmailed
1949
Dear Mr. Prohack
6/3
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and...
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Dear Mr. Prohack
1949
Boys in Brown
6.5/10
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Bo...
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Boys in Brown
1981
The Patricia Neal Story
5/1
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald D...
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The Patricia Neal Story
1969
The Epic That Never Was
6.5/6
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
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The Epic That Never Was
1990
Pictures of Europe
0/0
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...
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Pictures of Europe
2023
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
6.8/4
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major...
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
1966
Blithe Spirit
0/0
Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
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Blithe Spirit
1970
Upon This Rock
0/0
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
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Upon This Rock
1939
Come on George!
5.4/5
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse an...
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Come on George!
2019
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
6.5/10
Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Malissa ‘Elsa’ Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mari...
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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
1985
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
6/1
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with hi...
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
2021
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
7.5/48
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A sha...
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
1995
Empire of the Censors
3.5/2
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
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Empire of the Censors
1977
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
5/6
Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up his film Despair.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977
2000
Boys Don't Cry
7.4/138
A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.
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Boys Don't Cry
1987
The Vision
10/1
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a f...
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The Vision
1983
Schindler
8.1/10
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved...
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Schindler
1963
We Joined the Navy
5.4/8
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the righ...
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We Joined the Navy
2001
The Private Dirk Bogarde
1/1
Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Forwood, seen through home movies and excerpts from...
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The Private Dirk Bogarde
2004
A Letter to True
5.7/3
A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.
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A Letter to True
1964
Little Moon of Alban
0/0
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WWI she finds herself caring for wh...
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Little Moon of Alban
1947
Rope
0/0
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to...
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Rope
1947
Power Without Glory
0/0
Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother.
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Power Without Glory
1970
Visconti's Venice
4/1
A behind-the-scenes documentary produced during the original release of the film. The promotional piece features interviews with director Luchino Visc...
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Visconti's Venice
1947
The Case of Helvig Delbo
0/0
A true story of wartime espionage reconstructed for television by Robert Barr. In Denmark in 1943 twelve patriots who had been aiding Allied airmen to...
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The Case of Helvig Delbo
1987
Catch a Fallen Star
0/0
A portrait of Jessie Matthews, a once famous British singer, dancer and film star
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