One moment in the film life of Dirk Bogarde is particularly clear proof of his superiority over other leading men of the time: Bogarde and Ryan O’Neal, during one of the last scenes of “A Bridge Too ...

Image Credit: Dirk Bogarde in ‘Hot Enough For June’ via Kate Gabrielle, Flickr The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who became a household name in the 1950s and ’60s thanks especially ...

In 1961, Dirk Bogarde shocked the movie world when he deigned to play a gay character in the film "Victim," often lauded as the first British film to deal with the subject of homosexuality ...

From heartthrob to icon of edginess, the actor had an extraordinary career. On the centenary of his birth, Sophie Monks Kaufman wonders if we will see so daring a leading man again. Many actors have ...

FILM star Dirk Bogarde was investigated by spies at MI5 as they thought he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the Russians, newly-declassified files show. Documents released to the ...

At the beginning of Adam Low's recent and highly revealing Arena documentary on Dirk Bogarde, we see the bonfire to which the actor consigned most of his papers towards the end of his life - an ...

As part of a retrospective season dedicated to that utterly unique English actor Dirk Bogarde, BFI Southbank is this week screening his 1961 film Victim. Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a brilliant, ...

Lord Attenborough was an "idiot", Vanessa Redgrave a "ninny" and Sir John Gielgud struggled to understand Shakespeare, according to Sir Dirk Bogarde. The extraordinarily caustic comments by the late ...

The Odeon, Leicester Square, 1960. The red-carpet premiere of a film that will change the story of British film and British society. The lights are killed, the crowd falls silent. The roar of ...

The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who became a household name in the 1950s and ’60s thanks especially to his role in the comedic Doctor film series. Amidst his fame and acclaim, it ...