Dirk Bogarde

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Bogarde with Jane Birkin at the Cannes Film Festival (1990)

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born March 28, 1921 in Hampstead , London , England ; † May 8, 1999 there ; actually Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde ) was a British actor and writer who worked numerous between the 1950s and 1970s Could book box office successes. He saw his leading role in Death in Venice (1971) as the high point of his acting career .

Life

Bogarde was the son of a layout editor of Dutch descent for the British newspaper Times and a Scottish actress. He began his career at the theater as a set designer in London. He also studied acting. His acting career began in 1939. During World War II , Bogarde served as an intelligence officer in the Far East and Europe. Bogarde later cited the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as the most decisive experience of his military service . The memory of the “inferno” of the concentration camp shaped him for the rest of his life.

Back in England, he embarked on a film career in 1945 and played many very diverse roles during the 1950s. He became popular through his role as the doctor Simon Sparrow (in the German version Dr. Herbert Sperling) in a number of British films. With the portrayal of a homosexual lawyer in the crime film The Vicious Circle ( Victim , 1961), he finally made his breakthrough into the character field. This thriller is about a homosexual lawyer who defends himself against a blackmailer gang that drove his friend to suicide. It is the first British film to deal with the issue of homosexuality in a compassionate way. The vicious circle led to a short-term scandal, but in the longer term encouraged a shift in public opinion in favor of the decriminalization of homosexual acts in Britain. While he could never gain a foothold in Hollywood , he became a respected actor in Europe who worked with the most important filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. His multi-layered portrayals of neurotic and ambivalent characters delighted both audiences and critics. His portrayal of the servant Hugo Barrett in Losey's Pinter film The Servant ( The Servant , 1963) is praised . Bogarde's portrayal of a good-for-nothing in the drama Every Night at nine ( Our Mother's House , 1967), who leads the orphaned children to believe that he is their father who has returned, is impressive . His most important production is Death in Venice, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mann , directed by Luchino Visconti .

Bogarde's German regular speaker was Herbert Stass , who was sometimes represented by Gert Günther Hoffmann and Holger Hagen .

Contrary to his conscious choice of homosexual character roles ( The Vicious Circle , Death in Venice ), Bogarde kept his private life “like a bulldog”. In the early 1970s, Bogarde and his manager and long-time partner Anthony Forwood retired to their Provencal country house in southern France for almost 20 years. He rarely accepted film offers and began to write books. In a second career, 15 books by Bogarde appeared between 1977 and the year of his death, including four autobiographical works, two novels and a collection of journalistic works.

In the late 1980s, Bogarde moved to London after Forwood died of cancer in 1988. He devoted himself mainly to his private life, but was also involved in public issues such as euthanasia. In 1992 he was ennobled by the British Queen and was henceforth allowed to call himself Sir Dirk Bogarde. After a stroke in September 1996, he was dependent on a wheelchair; barely three years later, he died in 1999 at the age of 78 of complications from a heart attack.

Dirk Bogarde was the great-uncle of the English pop singer Birdy, who was born in 1996 .

Filmography

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  • 1992: Voices in the Garden - Director: Pierre Boutron

Web links

Commons : Dirk Bogarde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See John Carey: Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters selected and edited by John Coldstream . In: The Sunday Times , August 10, 2008, p. 2.
  2. ↑ See John Coldstream: Dirk Bogarde: The Authorized Biography . London, Phoenix 2005, pp. 20-21.
  3. ↑ a b See dirkbogarde.co.uk ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
  4. ↑ Dirk Bogarde in the German synchronous file
  5. ↑ Cf. orionbooks.co.uk ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orionbooks.co.uk
  6. ↑ See fyne.co.uk
  7. ↑ See Author of Books on nndb.com
personal data
SURNAME Bogarde, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Camden , London , England
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1999
Place of death London , England