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Sir Dirk Bogarde

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Sir Dirk Bogarde , 1921-99, English film actor, b. Hampstead as Derek Niven Van den Bogaerde. In his early career Bogarde played romantic leads in such films as So Long at the Fair (1950) and A Tale of Two Cities (1958). He later showed great versatility playing character parts, including a corrupting valet in The Servant (1963), a dying, obsessed composer in Death in Venice (1971), and a would-be murderer in Despair (1980). His other films include Darling (1965) and The Night Porter (1974). He broke a nine-year retirement from acting—during which he wrote an autobiography (1977) and several novels—to appear in Daddy Nostalgia (1990). He was knighted in 1992. His memoirs were published in 1995.

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Q Theatre, Kew Bridge, London, 500-seat theatre which opened in 1924 in a converted hall with a revival of Gertrude Jennings's highly successful comedy The Young Person in Pink. Over 1,000 plays were presented there, half of which were new; of these over 100 were transferred to the West End, Frederick Knott's Dial M for Murder being probably the best remembered. Terence Rattigan's first play First Episode (1933) was tried out at the Q before being transferred, with Max Adrian, who had made his first professional appearance at the Q, in the leading role. Other well-known actors who made their débuts at this theatre were Anthony Quayle in Robin Hood (1931) and Dirk Bogarde in a revival of Priestley's When We Are Married in 1939. In 1955 the local authority refused to renew the theatre's licence unless it was rebuilt. The campaign to raise the necessary funds was a failure, and the building was demolished in 1958.

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Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 6/8/1999; 109 words ; DIED: Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor who segued from comedies to dramas such as Death in Venice, of a heart attack May 8, He was preceded in death... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 9/14/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...September 8, NYC) Famed photographer Bruce Weber's tone poem on his love of dogs typically jumps all over the map to cover Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Taylor, and 9/11. Look for godlike beauties scattered casually in the background. (Zeitgeist) Kinsey Scale... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Lynn News/Norfolk Citizen (King's Lynn, England); 8/29/2006; 558 words ; ...Jacqueline had married movie star Dirk Bogarde's nephew Rupert in 1985 at North...Bogaerde in London in 1983. She nursed Dirk Bogarde when he suffered a stroke and the...Jacqueline was seen alive. Rupert Bogarde, who left France and has re-married... Read more
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Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...into a prismatic meta-fiction. The point of departure was the film Victim, 1961, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms, which deals with the then illegal practice of homosexuality. A barrister is implicated in a blackmail... Read more
DRAMA IN THE VILLAGE HALL.
Newspaper article from: Mid Sussex Times (Haywards Heath, England); 7/27/2006; 389 words ; ...demolishing the 1932 hall. The boards of the hall's stage on the picturesque village green were once trodden by a young Dirk Bogarde before he became a screen idol. The tale of intrigue and rumour took a dramatic turn the day before a poll of village... Read more
Jane Kaplowitz at Jason McCoy.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 11/1/1996; ; 488 words ; ...more than favorably with that of a Botticelli angel. Dirk Bogarde's uncanny, irritable performance as the famous, aging...Venice. In Kaplowitz's depictions, it was Aschenbach/ Bogarde looking at Tadzio/ Andresen for the most part, a scrutiny... Read more
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Magazine article from: CineAction; 6/22/2005; ; 487 words ; ...concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling checks into a Vienna hotel and has a torrid affair with the night porter (Dirk Bogarde), a former S.S. officer with whom she had been forced into a sadomasochistic relationship in the camps thirteen years... Read more
Time Regained.(Summer Movie Preview 2000)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 6/6/2000; 134 words ; ...inside scoop: Late gay Italian director Luchino Visconti (Death in Venice) hoped and failed to film Proust's novel with Dirk Bogarde, and U.K. director Joseph Losey (The Servani) and writer Harold similarly stalled. Explained Chilean director Ruiz at... Read more
Ophrah Shemesh: Freight + Volume.(NEW YORK)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 11/1/2008; ; 403 words ; ...Shemesh's pictures looks nothing like Charlotte Rampling, and the man whose face we see only twice does not resemble Dirk Bogarde, it was immediately clear upon entering the gallery that the overarching theme was erotic submission and domination... Read more

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