Dirk Bogarde is one of my all-time favorite actors. If his name is attached to the title or project, I am always there for him. He also had a second career as a writer - both memoirs and novels. Here are some of his film works:
"Song Without End"
"The Night Porter"
"Despair" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
"Victim"
"Damned" by Visconti
Making of "Death in Venice"
This is an excellent memoir of his movie years.
Some may feel that this is a little bit campy, but I love this album. Bogarde basically recites the great American (and British?) songbook. Bryan Ferry anyone?
The Dirk Bogarde masterpiece in my opinion is Joseph Losey's "The Servant."
Based on this great little novel by Robin Maugham
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And here's a clip from Modesty Blaise.
Can't say enough about this brilliant, fascinating and maddeningly mysteriosu man. A few years back there was a great documentary about him on Britian's Channel 4 involving much material (16mm home movies and such) that he wanted destroyed. Nothign scndalous in any of it. But the show does go into areas of his life he never discussed in his many books. His sister was interviewed as well as Anthony Forward's son who Bogarde and Forward raised from childhood, the mother (Forward's ex Glynnis Johns) not being particularly maternal.
That was Bogarde's forte -- among others.
I've always adored his remark that doing Victim saved his career because at that point "I was the Loretta Young of England."
It was indeed very daring of him to do that film and it moved him from "Matinee Idol" to full-fledged serious actor and he never looked back. Love him in just about everything, but besides The Servant, Death in Venice and Modesty Balise (my faves)I'm terribly superfond of his last film Daddy Nostalgie where he plays Jane Birkin's neglectful father.
SHEER ICONOGRAPHIC HEAVEN!!!
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