Where is Dirk Bogarde now? Death, Net Worth, Brother, Parents

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Short Info

Died	May 8, 1999, Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Fact	Befriended Rock Hudson while filming Campbell's Kingdom (1957), while Hudson was filming A Farewell to Arms (1957).
Payments	Earned $100,000 from La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) (1969)

Dirk Bogarde was born on March 28, 1921, in Hampstead, London. His parents were Ulrich Bogarde, a surgeon, and Margaret Niven, a nurse. He had two sisters, Elizabeth and Jane. Bogarde was educated at Westminster School and Kings College, Cambridge. He began his acting career in the theater, appearing in productions of Shakespeare and Shaw.

He made his film debut in 1948, and appeared in a number of British films in the 1950s. Bogarde’s breakthrough role came in the 1960 film “The Servant. ” He went on to star in a number of films, including “Dr. Zhivago” (1965), “The Damned” (1969), and “Death in Venice” (1971).

Bogarde was knighted in 1992. He died on May 8, 1999, at his home in London.

General Info

Full Name	Dirk Bogarde
Died	May 8, 1999, Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Height	1.74 m
Profession	Actor, Screenwriter, Novelist
Education	Chelsea College of Arts, University College School
Nationality	English

Family

Parents	Margaret Niven, Ulric van den Bogaerde
Siblings	Gareth Van Den Bogaerde, Elizabeth Goodings
Partner	Anthony Forwood

Accomplishments

Awards	BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
Nominations	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Movies	Death in Venice, The Servant, The Night Porter, Victim, The Damned, A Bridge Too Far, Doctor in the House, The Blue Lamp, Modesty Blaise, Doctor at Sea, I Could Go On Singing, The Spanish Gardener, H.M.S. Defiant, The Singer Not the Song, King and Country, The Sleeping Tiger, Hot Enough for June, Th...

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IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0001958

Salary

Title	Salary
Despair (1978)	$225,000
A Bridge Too Far (1977)	$100,000
Permission to Kill (1975)	$125,000
Le serpent (1973)	$75,000
Morte a Venezia (1971)	$120,000
La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) (1969)	$100,000
The Fixer (1968)	$165,000
Sebastian (1968)	£32,500
Our Mother's House (1967)	$35,000
Modesty Blaise (1966)	£22,500
Darling (1965)	£16,600
The Servant (1963)	£10,000
Doctor in Distress (1963)	£20,000
Song Without End (1960)	$100,000
The Angel Wore Red (1960)	£70,000

Quotes

#	Quote
1	[on actress/dancer Jessie Matthews] She was a much greater dancer than Ginger Rogers and I thought a better actress.
2	[on Rex Harrison] He's the actor I've learned most from. Whenever I used to think about how I would play a part I would first think how Rex would approach it.
3	[on Kay Kendall] She was without question the greatest female clown we ever had -- apart from someone like Beatrice Lillie, whom your audience won't have heard of. Or Cicely Courtneidge.
4	[on Alain Resnais] Resnais is one of the genius directors, too, however difficult it is to work in his way on a script as complex as Providence (1977). He's the only poet director I'm aware of.
5	[on Simone Signoret] I suppose it is fair to say that I fell hopelessly in love with Simone Signoret the very first time I clapped eyes on her in a modest Ealing film called Against the Wind (1948). I placed her then on the very peak of her profession and as far as I am concerned she has never budged from it and I still love her dearly.
6	[to Russell Harty during a 1986 interview] But I'm still in the shell, and you haven't cracked it yet, honey.
7	[1955] It seems to be almost impossible to find in this country the type of role which has made actors of the Brando [Marlon Brando] and James Dean style. Mine has I think some affinity which hitherto I have only been able to employ in the theatre.
8	[on the Cannes Film Festival] My idea of hell. You see all the people you thought were dead and all the people who deserve to be dead. After a while, you start to think you might be dead, too.
9	[on fans] The local police were always having to come and remove girls from their nesting places under the bushes. Like an orphan girl who twice escaped from a home at Birmingham. We only discovered her because she used the potting shed as a lavatory which seemed to indicate an alien presence. I think we got her fixed up as a kennel maid, which gave her dogs to love in place of me.
10	I simply love the camera and it loves me. But the amount of concentration you have to use to feed the camera is so enormous that you're absolutely ragged at the end of a day after doing something simple - like a look.
11	I've got a good left profile and a very bad right profile. I was the Loretta Young of my day. I was only ever photographed on the left-hand profile.
12	[speaking in 1983] Everyone wants to get into movies, but there aren't any movies left.
13	If you write about Hollywood, you can only write farce. It's so way over the top, you can't believe it. It's Sunset Blvd. (1950), it really is. And it's cut-throat at the same time.
14	[speaking in 1979] "The kind of acting I used to do no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
15	There's something wrong with actors, we've always been a suspect breed. Socially, I find myself more admissible now in England because I've written books.
16	Cinema is just a form of masturbation. Sexual relief for disappointed people. Women write and say, "I let my husband do it because I think it's you lying on top of me".
17	TV? Never! I don't want my audience going for a piss or making tea while I'm hard at work.
18	Geniuses are notoriously loony, because it's a very fine line between madness and genius.
19	Childhood for me was basically a backyard, a spade and a bucket of mud with someone to look after you.
20	First there was the war and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a film star. It happened all too soon.
21	I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends.
22	I was as scrawny as a plucked hen. The Rank Organisation did supply me with dumbbells. All I did was put on two sweaters and then put my shirt on.
23	I'll only work with new people. If you stick with your contemporaries, you're dead.

Facts

#	Fact
1	When starring in Doctor in the House, he frequently sought the advice and guidance of the film's camera operator, H.A.R. Thomson regarding his performance on camera,rather than director Ralph Thomas. Bogarde said he learned more about acting for the screen/camera from this, than any other film he had worked on.
2	Suffered a stroke after undergoing heart surgery in September 1996 and spent the last three years of his life in a wheelchair.
3	Was among the actors considered for Hans Fallanda in Lifeforce(1985) Frank Finlay was cast instead.
4	Great uncle of singer Birdy.
5	Elder brother of Elizabeth Goodings and Gareth Van Den Bogaerde.
6	The ancestral town of paternal grandfather Aimé Van Den Bogaerde was Izegem in West Flanders, Belgium, where the illustrious family owned the castle Wolvenhof and produced several mayors. However Aimé left Belgium to pursue a Bohemian lifestyle and travel the world, and would tell his grandson Dirk that he was in fact Dutch.
7	During the late 1940s Bogarde was living at No 44 Chester Row, Belgravia, London with a rescued cat called Cliff. While he was there Bogarde received his first contract from J. Arthur Rank, which set him on the way to stardom.
8	He was a close friend of Rex Harrison, whom he named as the actor who had influenced him most in a 1963 interview with the BBC. In 1958 Bogarde provided a video message praising Harrison when the musical "My Fair Lady" transferred from Broadway to London.
9	He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
10	He had a remarkably good singing voice.
11	Turned down the role of the British padre in The Longest Day (1962).
12	Scottish director Bill Douglas approached Bogarde to play a small part in his feature Comrades (1986) but Bogarde declined, sending Douglas a postcard saying, "I don't do small parts".
13	Following the death of his partner Anthony Forwood in 1988, he moved into an apartment at 2 Cadogan Gardens in London, where he remained until his death.
14	His favourite of his films was King & Country (1964), which reflected his strong anti-war views. Bogarde was very disappointed by the film's commercial failure.
15	Befriended Rock Hudson while filming Campbell's Kingdom (1957), while Hudson was filming A Farewell to Arms (1957).
16	Quit smoking following a minor stroke in November 1987.
17	In "Dirk Bogarde: The Authorized Biography" (2004), John Coldstream offers four major reasons for Bogarde's failure to become a Hollywood star in 1960. Firstly, the vehicle for his potential breakthrough, Song Without End (1960), was a flop. Secondly, his talents at that time were not seen as being particularly different from those of, in particular, Montgomery Clift, John Cassavetes and Anthony Perkins - nor could he possibly compete as a light comedy lead in the manner of Cary Grant and Rock Hudson. Thirdly, he had had enough of making formulaic films and was determined to prove himself as a serious actor. But fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, his refusal to enter into an arranged marriage to a starlet in the style of Rock Hudson's marriage to Phyllis Gates, did not go down well among producers in Hollywood.
18	Sir David Lean considered making Doctor Zhivago (1965) with Bogarde, but decided on Omar Sharif instead.
19	Was considered for Louis Jourdan's role in Gigi (1958).
20	Turned down Glenn Ford's role in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), which turned out to be a critical and financial disaster.
21	He made his stage debut in 1939, but his acting career was interrupted for seven years by World War II until he was demobilized in September 1946.
22	Born Derek van den Bogaerde in the north London suburb of Hampstead to an actress mother and an artist father, he went to university in London and Scotland.
23	Beginning in 1977, Bogarde was also a prolific writer with seven volumes of autobiography and seven novels all becoming best-sellers.
24	He moved to Europe in the late 1960s, when he saw his career path lay in the sort of films being produced in Italy, France and Germany, rather than England or America. He lived in France some 20 years, thus fulfilling a childhood ambition.
25	Considered retiring after The Night Porter (1974), which had left him emotionally drained.
26	Going to the wrong room for a British Broadcasting Corporation audition, the young Bogarde accidentally got a part in a stage play that proved so successful he was hailed as a star overnight.
27	Resisted attempts to make him Hollywood's new "Spanish" star, and to be married off to some starlet. Turned down The Egyptian (1954) after Marlon Brando had turned it down.
28	Turned down a co-starring role for $150,000 alongside Rock Hudson and George Peppard in Tobruk (1967).
29	Was considered for the role of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966).
30	Turned down an offer of $150,000 from MGM to star with Natalie Wood in Penelope (1966), in order to make Accident (1967) with his friend, director Joseph Losey.
31	Won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for his performance in The Servant (1963).
32	Turned down Jeremy Irons's role in The Mission (1986).
33	Longtime companion of actor manager Anthony Forwood.
34	For a time in the 1950s, Bogarde was promoted as "The British Rock Hudson".
35	According to his friend Charlotte Rampling, Bogarde was approached in 1990 by Madonna to appear in her video for "Justify My Love", citing The Night Porter (1974) as an inspiration. Bogarde turned the offer down.
36	His height was measured at five feet eight and a half inches when he was drafted into the British army in September 1939.
37	1984: President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
38	1985: Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
39	Director Joseph Losey originally offered the part of Leon Trotsky in his film The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) to Bogarde. Losey admitted that the script was terrible, but told Bogarde that it would be revised. Bogarde turned the role down, embittering Losey, who felt that Bogarde didn't trust him. Richard Burton, who had worked with Losey on Boom! (1968), did trust Losey enough to take the part, even though he was shown the same script. Bogarde was wise to turn down the part as the finished film was a critical and box office failure, and along with the earlier Losey-Burton collaboration Boom! (1968) made the list of the "Fifty Worst Films of All Time", by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
40	Uncle of Ulric Van Den Bogaerde.
41	A British soldier during World War II, he claimed to have been present when the Allies rescued the prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Belsen. However there is some doubt as to whether Bogarde was really there or whether he pretended to have been present in later years.
42	He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Junly 4, 1985 by St. Andrews University in Scotland.
43	He was the only cast member of A Bridge Too Far (1977) to have actually served at the actual battles depicted in the film.
44	He was awarded a Chevalier De L'Ordre Des Lettres from the French Government in 1982.
45	He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1992 Queen's New Year Honours List, and was officially knighted on February 13, 1992.
46	Born at 3:20am-UT
47	The day before he died was spent with his friend Lauren Bacall. Apparently they had a wonderful time together.
48	1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#78).

Pictures

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Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Blue Lamp	1950		Tom Riley
Boys in Brown	1949		Alfie Rawlins
Dear Mr. Prohack	1949		Charles Prohack
Maniacs on Wheels	1949		Bill Fox
Quartet	1948		George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Sin of Esther Waters	1948		William Latch
Dancing with Crime	1947		Policeman (uncredited)
Power Without Glory	1947	TV Movie	Cliff
Rope	1947	TV Movie	Charles Granillo
Come on George!	1939		Extra (uncredited)
Daddy Nostalgia	1990		Daddy
Screen Two	1987	TV Series	James Marriner
May We Borrow Your Husband?	1986	TV Movie	William Harris
The Patricia Neal Story	1981	TV Movie	Roald Dahl
Despair	1978		Herman
A Bridge Too Far	1977		Lieutenant General Frederick Browning
Providence	1977		Claude Langham
The Executioner	1975		Alan Curtis
The Night Porter	1974		Max
The Serpent	1973		Philip Boyle
Death in Venice	1971		Gustav von Aschenbach
Upon This Rock	1970	TV Movie	Bonnie Prince Charlie (voice)
Justine	1969		Pursewarden
The Damned	1969		Friedrich Bruckmann
Oh! What a Lovely War	1969		Stephen
The Fixer	1968		Bibikov
Sebastian	1968		Sebastian
Our Mother's House	1967		Charlie Hook
Accident	1967		Stephen
Blithe Spirit	1966	TV Movie	Charles Condomine
Modesty Blaise	1966		Gabriel
Darling	1965		Robert Gold
McGuire, Go Home!	1965		Maj. McGuire
King & Country	1964		Captain Hargreaves
Little Moon of Alban	1964	TV Movie	Kenneth Boyd
Agent 8 3/4	1964		Nicholas Whistler
The Servant	1963		Barrett
Doctor in Distress	1963		Dr. Simon Sparrow
I Could Go on Singing	1963		David Donne
The Mind Benders	1963		Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman
The Password Is Courage	1962		Sergant-Major Charles Coward
We Joined the Navy	1962		Dr. Simon Sparrow (uncredited)
Damn the Defiant!	1962		Lieut. Scott-Padget
Victim	1961		Melville Farr
The Singer Not the Song	1961		Anacleto Comachi
Song Without End	1960		Franz Liszt
The Angel Wore Red	1960		Arturo Carrera
Libel	1959		Sir Mark Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen
The Doctor's Dilemma	1958		Louis Dubedat
The Wind Cannot Read	1958		Flight Lt. Michael Quinn
A Tale of Two Cities	1958		Sydney Carton
Campbell's Kingdom	1957		Bruce Campbell
Doctor at Large	1957		Dr. Simon Sparrow
Night Ambush	1957		Major Patrick Leigh Fermor D.S.O. O.B.E. also known to the Cretans and the German Secret Police as PHILEDEM
The Spanish Gardener	1956		Jose
Cast a Dark Shadow	1955		Edward Bare
Doctor at Sea	1955		Dr. Simon Sparrow
Simba	1955		Alan Howard
The Sea Shall Not Have Them	1954		Flight Sgt. MacKay
Cocktails in the Kitchen	1954		Tony Howard
The Sleeping Tiger	1954		Frank Clemmons
Doctor in the House	1954		Simon Sparrow
They Who Dare	1954		Lieut. David Graham
Desperate Moment	1953		Simon Van Halder
Raiders in the Sky	1953		Tim Mason
The Gentle Gunman	1952		Matt Sullivan
Penny Princess	1952		Tony Craig
The Stranger in Between	1952		Chris Lloyd
Blackmailed	1951		Stephen Mundy
Five Angles on Murder	1950		R.W. (Bob) Baker
So Long at the Fair	1950		George Hathaway

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Screen Two	1993	TV Series novel - 1 episode
May We Borrow Your Husband?	1986	TV Movie
King & Country	1964	collaboration - uncredited
I Could Go on Singing	1963	uncredited

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Biography	1997	TV Series documentary	Himself
Empire of the Censors	1995	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Hollywood U.K.	1993	TV Series documentary	Himself - Contributor
Dirk Bogarde: By Myself	1992	TV Movie documentary
This Week	1991	TV Series	Himself
Film '72	1973-1991	TV Series	Himself
Omnibus	1972-1988	TV Series documentary	Himself
Forty Minutes	1987	TV Series documentary	Himself
Aspel & Company	1985	TV Series	Himself
The Golden Gong	1985	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Interviewee
Schindler: The Real Story	1983	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (voice)
This Is Your Life	1976-1983	TV Series documentary	Himself
Parkinson	1971-1980	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Hollywood Greats	1978	TV Series documentary	Himself (1972 footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977	1977	Documentary short
The Merv Griffin Show	1968	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1964-1968	TV Series	Himself - Guest
El rey en Londres	1966		Himself
Thirty Years After	1966	TV Mini-Series	Himself - Narrator
The Epic That Never Was	1965	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Host / Narrator
Cinema	1965	TV Series documentary	Himself
Variety Club Awards	1964	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Here's Hollywood	1962	TV Series	Himself
Film Profile	1961	TV Series	Himself - Subject
Insight: Anthony Asquith	1960	Documentary	Himself
What's My Line?	1960	TV Series	Himself - Panelist
The 31st Annual Academy Awards	1959	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Writing Awards
This Is Your Life	1959	TV Series documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Talking Pictures	2013	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Unforgettable Russell Harty	2012	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Interviewee on The Russell Harty Show
The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited	2011	Video documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Imprescindibles	2011	TV Series	Himself
Banda sonora	2011	TV Series	Gustav von Aschenbach
Cinema 3	2009	TV Series	Himself
Strictly Courtroom	2008	TV Movie documentary	Capt. Hargreaves / Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon / Frank Welney / ... (uncredited)
A Real Summer	2007	TV Movie	Himself (uncredited)
British Film Forever	2007	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires	2007	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Cinema mil	2005	TV Series	Himself
A Letter to True	2004	Documentary	Himself
The Unforgettable Joan Sims	2002	TV Special documentary	Acting Role (uncredited)
Arena	2001	TV Series documentary	Himself / various roles / Various Roles
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories	2000	Video documentary	Himself
Legends	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards	2000	TV Special	Himself - Memorial Tribute
A Tribute to Betty E. Box OBE	2000	Video documentary	Himself
The Doctor Films: Dirk Bogarde Returns to Pinewood Studios	2000	Video documentary short	Himself
The Best of British	1999	TV Series	Himself
Luchino Visconti	1999	Documentary
The Very Best of Sid James	1996	Video documentary
To See Such Fun	1977	Documentary	Himself
Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu	1969		Running Man
Lionpower from MGM	1967	Short uncredited

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1992	Dilys Powell Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards
1990	Best Actor	Valladolid International Film Festival		Daddy Nostalgie (1990)
1987	BFI Fellowship	British Film Institute Awards
1976	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Performance in a Foreign Film (Mejor Interpretación en Película Extranjera)	La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) (1969)
1968	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Performance in a Foreign Film (Mejor Interpretación en Película Extranjera)	Accident (1967)
1966	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best British Actor	Darling (1965)
1964	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best British Actor	The Servant (1963)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1991	David	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)	Daddy Nostalgie (1990)
1982	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
1972	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Actor	Morte a Venezia (1971)
1968	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best British Actor	Accident (1967)
1968	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best British Actor	Our Mother's House (1967)
1962	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best British Actor	Victim (1961)
1961	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Actor - Comedy or Musical	Song Without End (1960)

2^nd Place Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1969	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Supporting Actor	The Fixer (1968)
1964	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actor	The Servant (1963)