Dirk Bogarde Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Monday
BIRTHPLACE
West Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
DIED AT AGE
78 Years 1 Months 11 Days
DEATHDATE
May 8, 1999
DEATHPLACE
Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
CAUSE OF DEATH
Heart attack
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
ARIES
ALSO NOTED FOR
Novelist
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
5'8''(feet & inches)
1.7272 meters
172.72 cm
WEIGHT
N/A
Dirk Bogarde Family Members
Parents
FATHER
Ulric Van Den Bogaerde
BROTHER(S) NAME
SISTER(S) NAME
Fame & Address
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Doctor in the House (1954)
Education, Net Worth & More
SCHOOLING FROM
Allan Glen's High School of Science, Glasgow
COLLEGE
University College School
More Information
Career of Dirk Bogarde
He signed a contract with Rank Organisation and worked with them in Esther Waters, The Blue Lamp, Hunted. He played the role of a medical student in "Doctor in the House". He also appeared in "The Sleeping Tiger", second Doctor film, "Doctor at Sea". After leaving Rank Organisation he appeared in the film Victim and his performance leads to a revolution in the people of England relating to homosexuality. He also appeared in the film The Servant and won a BAFTA Award for this performance. He appeared in Darling, French film Providence and many more.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Dirk Bogarde
- Did Dirk Bogarde takes alcohol? Yes.
- Was Dirk Bogarde in the habit of Smoking? Yes.
- He was a son of the first art editor of the London Times Ulric Van den Bogaerde.
- Due to some problems in the family he had to move to Glasgow to stay with relatives of his mother but according to him this time was very bad in his life and he returned back at the end of 1937.
- He had served the British Army at the time of the Second World War. First, he was in Royal Corps of Signals and later on he was commissioned to the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) as a second lieutenant.
- He also appeared in the George Formby comedy, Come On George! for a role of an extra before the War but his role was uncredited.
- His experience about the War was heart-shaking. In an interview with John Hofsess, London, he shared hisexperience when a man who was badly injured and was begging for his death. He was looking like a bloody bundle with one arm and no legs and told to him "Help. Kill me." He was looking for his bullets another man killed him but he does not forget the voice of that man.
- He appeared in the first film which was based on homosexuality and his performance helped to change public opinion in England toward homosexuality at that time it was illegal. After six years Sexual Offences Bill was passed and homosexuality becomes legal in England in 1967.
- He was also a homosexual and was a longtime partner of Anthony Forwood.
- He had also taken part in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- He had also written novels and autobiographical books in his later years. He had completed a final volume of his autobiography a few days before his death.
- He had signed a contract with Rank Organisation the character T. E. Lawrence in a proposed film Lawrence but after one year the film was scrapped without any satisfactory reason which led him and director Anthony Asquith very disappointed. He also received an offer from artistic director Sir Laurence Olivier to play Hamlet at the recently founded Chichester Festival Theatre but was unable to accept it due to film commitments.
- He was the first British person to serve as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
- In 1991, he received the London Film Critics Circle Lifetime Award, a Knight Bachelor in the United Kingdom, the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and many more.
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