Sir Dirk Bogarde Biography

orig. Derek Niven van den Bogaerde

(1921–99)

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  • Films
  • 1947 Dancing With Crime
  • 1948 Quartet (appeared in The Alien Corn)
  • 1949 The Blue Lamp
  • 1950 So Long at the Fair
  • 1952 Appointment in London
  • 1952 Hunted
  • 1953 They Who Dare
  • 1953 Doctor in the House
  • 1954 The Sleeping Tiger
  • 1955 Doctor at Sea
  • 1955 Cast a Dark Shadow
  • 1955 Simba
  • 1956 The Spanish Gardener
  • 1956 Ill Met By Moonlight
  • 1957 Doctor at Large
  • 1958 A Tale of Two Cities
  • 1958 The Wind Cannot Read
  • 1959 The Doctor's Dilemma
  • 1959 Libel
  • 1960 Song Without End
  • 1960 The Angel Wore Red
  • 1960 The Singer Not The Song
  • 1961 Victim
  • 1962 HMS Defiant
  • 1962 The Password is Courage
  • 1963 The Servant
  • 1963 The Mind Benders
  • 1963 Doctor in Distress
  • 1963 Hot Enough For June
  • 1964 King and Country
  • 1965 Darling
  • 1965 The High Bright Sun
  • 1966 Modesty Blaise
  • 1967 Accident
  • 1967 Our Mother's House
  • 1968 The Fixer
  • 1969 Oh What A Lovely War
  • 1969 Justine
  • 1969 The Damned
  • 1971 Death in Venice
  • 1973 The Night Porter
  • 1975 Permission To Kill
  • 1977 Providence
  • 1977 A Bridge Too Far
  • 1978 Despair
  • 1990 Daddy Nostalgie (aka These Foolish Things)
  • Novels
  • 1980 A Gentle Occupation
  • 1981 Voices in the Garden
  • 1984 West of Sunset
  • 1992 Jericho
  • 1994 A Period of Adjustment
  • Autobiography
  • 1977 A Postillion Struck by Lightning
  • 1978 Snakes and Ladders
  • 1983 An Orderly Man
  • 1986 Backcloth
  • 1989 A Particular Friendship
  • 1992 The Great Meadow
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(born March 28, 1921, London, Eng.—died May 8, 1999, London) British actor. 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. After appearing for a decade mainly in light comedies such as Doctor in the House (1953), he began demonstrating his acting range in serious films such as The Doctor's Dilemma (1958), The Servant (1963), Darling (1965), and Providence (1977).


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