Dirk Bogarde's biography

Dirk Bogarde is 78 years old actor born on on Monday 28th of March 1921. He is often nicknamed as The Idol of the OdeonPip/PippinThe British Rock Hudson. According to year of birth 1921 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 28th of March means he is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as film actor, novelist, autobiographer, translator, screenwriter, journalist, stage actor, writer. He is recently known as author.

Dirk Bogarde's dad

Dirk Bogarde's father's name is Ulric Gontran Jules van den Bogaerde.

Dirk Bogarde's mom

Dirk Bogarde's mother's name is Margaret Niven.

Dirk Bogarde's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Chelsea College of Art and Design, Allan Glen's School, St Catherine's School, University College School.

Dirk Bogarde's career

His main focus is to be actor.

Dirk Bogarde's partner

Anthony Forwood

Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Forwood have been together. He is known as actor. His partner was born on Sunday 3rd of October 1915 in Weymouth. His partner died on Wednesday 18th of May 1988 in London. Anthony Forwood was 67 years old, when this happened.

How did Dirk Bogarde die

He died on on Saturday 8th of May 1999 when he was 78 years old. Dirk Bogardes death was caused by heart attack. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Dirk Bogarde's Awards

He was awarded a Chevalier De L'Ordre Des Lettres from the French Government in 1982.
He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature on Junly 4, 1985 by St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for his performance in The Servant (1963).

What Dirk Bogarde has done for a first time

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.

Dirk Bogarde's quotes

I'll only work with new people. If you stick with your contemporaries, you're dead.
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.
I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends.
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.
Childhood for me was basically a backyard, a spade and a bucket of mud with someone to look after you.
Geniuses are notoriously loony, because it's a very fine line between madness and genius.
TV? Never! I don't want my audience going for a piss or making tea while I'm hard at work.
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".
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.
[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.
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.
[speaking in 1983] Everyone wants to get into movies, but there aren't any movies left.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
[to Russell Harty during a 1986 interview] But I'm still in the shell, and you haven't cracked it yet, honey.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[on actress/dancer Jessie Matthews] She was a much greater dancer than Ginger Rogers and I thought a better actress.
I had to go along with it. I was selling the product - and the product was me.
By 1966, I was splendidly on the skids.

Dirk Bogarde's body shape

Lets describe how Dirk Bogarde looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.

Dirk Bogarde