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Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and writer. 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.
Birth Name
Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde
Born
Monday, 28 March 1921
Died
Saturday, 08 May 1999
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Alain Resnais, l'audacieux | Self | 2022 |
| The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | Self | 2021 |
| Memories of My Father | Gustav von Aschenbach | 2020 |
| The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited | Self | 2011 |
| Great Directors | Max (clip from Il portiere di notte (1974)) | 2009 |
| A Letter to True | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2008 |
| A Real Summer | Self | 2007 |
| British Film Forever | Self | 2007 |
| Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| The 72nd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 2000 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Alain Resnais, l'audacieux | Self | 2022 |
| The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | Self | 2021 |
| Memories of My Father | Gustav von Aschenbach | 2020 |
| The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited | Self | 2011 |
| Great Directors | Max (clip from Il portiere di notte (1974)) | 2009 |
| A Letter to True | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2008 |
| A Real Summer | Self | 2007 |
| British Film Forever | Self | 2007 |
| Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| The 72nd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 2000 |
| Luchino Visconti | Self | 1999 |
| Empire of the Censors | Self | 1995 |
| Daddy Nostalgia | Daddy (Tony Russell) / Daddy | 1990 |
| Best of British | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| May We Borrow Your Husband? | William Harris | 1986 |
| Screen Two | James Marriner | 1985 |
| The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio | Himself - Interviewee | 1985 |
| The Golden Gong | Himself - Interviewee / Self - Interviewee | 1985 |
| Aspel & Company | Self | 1984 |
| Schindler | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1983 |
| The Patricia Neal Story | Roald Dahl | 1981 |
| The Russell Harty Show | Self | 1980 |
| Despair | Herman / Hermann Hermann | 1978 |
| To See Such Fun | Self | 1977 |
| A Bridge Too Far | Lt .Gen. Browning / Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning | 1977 |
| Providence | Claude Langham | 1977 |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 | Self | 1977 |
| The Executioner | Alan Curtis | 1975 |
| Arena | Himself / Various Roles (archive footage) / Self | 1975 |
| The Night Porter | Max / Maximilian Theo Aldorfer | 1974 |
| The Serpent | Philip Boyle | 1973 |
| Film '72 | Self | 1971 |
| Parkinson | Self - Guest | 1971 |
| Death in Venice | Gustav von Aschenbach | 1971 |
| Upon This Rock | Bonnie Prince Charlie (voice) / Bonnie Prince Charlie | 1970 |
| The Damned | Friedrich Bruckmann / Frederick Bruckmann | 1969 |
| Justine | Pursewarden | 1969 |
| The Castle of Fu Manchu | Running Man | 1969 |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Stephen | 1969 |
| The Fixer | Bibikov | 1968 |
| Sebastian | Sebastian | 1968 |
| Our Mother's House | Charlie Hook | 1967 |
| Accident | Stephen | 1967 |
| El rey en Londres | Self | 1966 |
| Modesty Blaise | Gabriel | 1966 |
| The Epic That Never Was | Himself - Host / Narrator / Self - Host | 1965 |
| Darling | Robert Gold | 1965 |
| McGuire, Go Home! | Maj. McGuire / Major McGuire | 1965 |
| King & Country | Captain Hargreaves / Capt. Hargreaves | 1964 |
| Agent 8 3/4 | Nicholas Whistler | 1964 |
| The Servant | Barrett / Hugo Barrett | 1963 |
| Doctor in Distress | Dr. Simon Sparrow / Dr Simon Sparrow | 1963 |
| The Mind Benders | Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman / Dr. Harry Longman | 1963 |
| I Could Go on Singing | David Donne | 1963 |
| We Joined the Navy | Dr. Simon Sparrow | 1962 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest | 1962 |
| The Password Is Courage | Sergant-Major Charles Coward / Sergeant-Major Charles Coward | 1962 |
| Damn the Defiant! | Lieut. Scott-Padget | 1962 |
| Victim | Melville Farr | 1961 |
| The Singer Not the Song | Anacleto Comachi | 1961 |
| Insight: Anthony Asquith | Self | 1960 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| Song Without End | Franz Liszt | 1960 |
| The Angel Wore Red | Arturo Carrera | 1960 |
| Libel | Number Fifteen / Sir Mark Loddon / Frank Welney | 1959 |
| The Doctor's Dilemma | Louis Dubedat | 1958 |
| The Wind Cannot Read | Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn | 1958 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Sydney Carton | 1958 |
| Campbell's Kingdom | Bruce Campbell | 1957 |
| Doctor at Large | Dr. Simon Sparrow / Dr Simon Sparrow | 1957 |
| Night Ambush | Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor / Major Patrick Leigh Fermor D.S.O. O.B.E. also known to the Cretans and the German Secret Police as PHILEDEM | 1957 |
| The Spanish Gardener | Jose | 1956 |
| Cast a Dark Shadow | Edward "Teddy" Bare / Edward Bare | 1955 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
| Doctor at Sea | Dr. Simon Sparrow / Simon Sparrow | 1955 |
| Simba | Alan Howard | 1955 |
| The Sleeping Tiger | Frank Clemmons | 1954 |
| Cocktails in the Kitchen | Tony / Tony Howard | 1954 |
| The Sea Shall Not Have Them | Flight Sgt. MacKay / Flt Sgt Mackay | 1954 |
| Doctor in the House | Simon Sparrow | 1954 |
| They Who Dare | Lieut. Graham / Lieutenant Graham | 1954 |
| Desperate Moment | Simon Van Halder | 1953 |
| Raiders in the Sky | Tim Mason / Wing-Commander Tim Mason | 1953 |
| The Gentle Gunman | Matt Sullivan | 1952 |
| Penny Princess | Tony Craig | 1952 |
| The Stranger in Between | Chris Lloyd | 1952 |
| Blackmailed | Stephen Mundy | 1951 |
| Five Angles on Murder | R.W. (Bob) Baker | 1950 |
| So Long at the Fair | George Hathaway | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Himself - Panelist | 1950 |
| The Blue Lamp | Tom Riley | 1950 |
| Boys in Brown | Alfie Rawlins | 1949 |
| Dear Mr. Prohack | Charles Prohack | 1949 |
| Maniacs on Wheels | Bill Fox | 1949 |
| Quartet | George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") / George Bland | 1948 |
| Sin of Esther Waters | William Latch | 1948 |
| Dancing with Crime | Policeman | 1947 |
| Power Without Glory | Cliff | 1947 |
| Come on George! | Extra | 1939 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1982 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 1961 | Golden Globe | Best Actor - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
