Dirk Bogarde
Actor
- Quartet (1949)
- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman
- Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
- Boys in Brown, The (1949)
- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde…
- Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
- Blue Lamp, The (1950)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner
- A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
- So Long at the Fair (1950)
- Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson…
- Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
- Gentle Gunman, The (1952)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills
- Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
- Hunted (1952)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen…
- Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
- They Who Dare (1953)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.
- Doctor in the House (1954)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
- Sleeping Tiger (1954)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
- Doctor at Sea (1955)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot
- Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
- Spanish Gardener, The (1956)
- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack…
- Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy.
Narrative wise…
- Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
- Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…
- Tale of Two Cities, A (1958)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…
- An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
- Song Without End (1960)
- Dir. Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page, Capucine…
- Pleasant biopic of the great composer Franz Liszt which despite focusing mostly on his love affairs does boast a terrific score. This was Charles…
- Victim (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
- As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
- Singer Not the Song, The (1961)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…
- Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
- Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
- Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
- Servant, The (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles
- First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
- Mind Benders, The (1963)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant…
- A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation.
Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
- I Could Go on Singing (1963)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman…
- A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
- King and Country (1964)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
- Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
- High Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg…
- Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
- Hot Enough For June (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley…
- A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
- Darling (1965)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde
- Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp…
- Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.
- Accident (1967)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York
- The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
- Damned, The (1968)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
- Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…
- Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
- Death in Venice (1971)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
- Night Porter, The (1974)
- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
- Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…