Topic: Dirk Bogarde

Famous people have always opened those lives to the public in autobiography, but there's no reason to think that a sportsman, an actor or a supermodel will necessarily have the ability to translate the oddness of their personal worldview into fiction ...

Movie reviews: Victim (1961)

This 1961 black and white British thriller is notable (and no doubt is being shown today on independent movie stations) for its groundbreaking, mostly sympathetic depiction of homosexuality. The protagonist (Dirk Bogarde) - a married lawyer with an accelerating career - becomes aware of ...

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No man is a hero to his editor, but Dirk Bogarde is certainly venerated by John Coldstream, the former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, who commissioned book reviews from the actor and has spent the past nine years first writing his ...
One of the pantheon directors of world cinema, Losey (1909- 94) worked extensively in the American theatre, most famously directing Charles Laughton in Brecht's Galileo in 1947. The following year he made his first feature film but was later blacklisted in ...