

Dirk Bogarde was born in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London, and was baptised on 30 October 1921, at St. Margaret Niven, a former actress, was Scottish, from Glasgow. Ulric was born in Perry Barr, Birmingham, of Flemish ancestry, and was art editor of The Times. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992.īogarde was the eldest of three children born to Ulric van den Bogaerde (1892–1972) and Margaret Niven (1898–1980).

His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Despair (1978). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965).
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Having come to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, Bogarde starred in the successful Doctor film series (1954–1963). His poetry has been published in war anthologies a painting by Bogarde, also from the war, hangs in the British Museum, with many more in the Imperial War Museum. During five years of active military duty during World War Two, he reached the rank of major and was awarded seven medals. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess". Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde 28 March 1921 – ) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.

Anthony Forwood (1949–1988 Forwood's death)
