Dirk Bogarde 159603 223337454 2008-07-03T17:10:20Z Alexf 55327 rv unsourced {{Infobox Actor | name = Dirk Bogarde | image = Dirkbogarde.jpg | birthname = Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogarde | birthdate = {{birth date|1921|3|28|mf=y}} | birthplace = [[West Hampstead]], [[London]] | deathdate = {{death date and age|1999|5|8|1921|3|28}} | deathplace = [[Chelsea, London]] | yearsactive = 1939 - 1990 | baftaawards = '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]'''<br>1963 ''[[The Servant]]''<br>1965 ''[[Darling (film)|Darling]]'' }} '''Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde''' ([[28 March]], [[1921]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[8 May]], [[1999]]), better known by his [[stage name]] '''Dirk Bogarde''', was an [[actor]] and [[author]]. ==Early years and war service== Bogarde was born in [[West Hampstead]], [[London]], of mixed [[Flanders|Flemish]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [[Scotland|Scottish]] ancestry. His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham), was the art editor of ''[[The Times]]'' and his mother [[Margaret Niven]] was a former actress. He attended the former [[Allan Glen's School]] in Glasgow, a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account&nbsp;[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20041003/ai_n12591787]. Bogarde served in [[World War II]], being commissioned into the [[Queen's Royal Regiment]] in 1943. He reached the rank of [[Major]] and served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer. In April 1945, he claimed he was one of the first [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] officers to reach the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] [[concentration camp]] in Germany, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he found it difficult to speak for many years afterward. His horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he witnessed in Belsen left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; he wrote in the 1990s that he would disembark from an elevator rather than ride with a German.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} Nevertheless, three of his more memorable film roles were as Germans, one of them as a former [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] officer (''The Night Porter''&nbsp;[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/]). He was most vocal, toward the end of his life, on the issue of voluntary euthanasia, of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his partner and manager Anthony Forwood in 1988. He gave an interview to John Hofsess, London executive director of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ... On one occasion the Jeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me. A bloody bundle, shrapnel-ripped, legless, one arm only. The one arm reached out to me, white eyeballs wide, unseeing, in the bloody mask that had been a face. A gurgling voice said, 'Help. Kill me.' With shaking hands I reached for my small pouch to load my revolver ... I had to look for my bullets -- by which time somebody else had already taken care of him. I heard the shot. I still remember that gurgling sound. A voice pleading for death ... "During the war I saw more wounded men being 'taken care of' than I saw being rescued. Because sometimes you were too far from a dressing station, sometimes you couldn't get them out. And they were pumping blood or whatever; they were in such a wreck, the only thing to do was to shoot them. And they were, so don't think they weren't. That hardens you: You get used to the fact that it can happen. And that it is the only sensible thing to do." ==Film career== After the war, Bogarde's good looks helped him begin a career as a [[film actor]], contracted to The [[Rank Organisation]].<ref name=MorleyS-DBRO>Morley, Sheridan (1999). ''Dirk Bogarde: Rank Outsider''. Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747546983</ref> His 1950 appearance as the criminal, Tom Riley, who shoots [[Police Constable]] [[Dixon of Dock Green|George Dixon]] in ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' launched him as a lead player, but it was the comedy, ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), produced by [[Betty Box]], directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and co-starring [[Kenneth More]], [[Donald Sinden]], and [[James Robertson Justice]] as his crabby mentor, which made Bogarde a star.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} During the [[1950s]], he also starred as a murderer who befriends a young boy in ''[[Hunted (film)|Hunted]]'' (aka ''The Stranger in Between'') (1952); ''[[Appointment in London]]'' (1953) as a young airman in Bomber Command who, against orders, joins a major offensive against the Germans; ''[[The Sea Shall Not Have Them]]'' (1954), playing a flight sergeant trapped in a dinghy with [[Michael Redgrave|Sir Michael Redgrave]]; ''[[The Sleeping Tiger]]'' (1954), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star [[Alexis Smith]] in fine form, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director [[Joseph Losey]]; ''[[Doctor at Sea]]'' (1955), co-starring [[Brigitte Bardot]] in one of her first film roles; ''[[Cast a Dark Shadow]]'' (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then kills them; ''[[The Spanish Gardener]]'' (1956), co-starring [[Cyril Cusack]] and [[Bernard Lee]]; ''[[Doctor at Large]]'' (1957), another entry in the "Doctor series", co-starring [[Shirley Eaton]]; ''[[A Tale of Two Cities (1958 film)|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1958), a faithful retelling of [[Charles Dickens]]' classic; ''[[The Doctor's Dilemma (film)|The Doctor's Dilemma]]'' (1959), by George Bernard Shaw and co-starring [[Leslie Caron]] and [[Robert Morley]], not a part of the "Doctor series"; and ''[[Libel (film)|Libel]]'' (1959), playing three separate roles and co-starring [[Olivia de Havilland]]. Bogarde quickly became a matinee idol and was Britain's number one box office draw of the [[1950s]], gaining the title of "The Matinee Idol of the Odeon." After [[1960]], Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in ''[[Victim (film)|Victim]]'' (1961); decadent valet Hugo Barrett in ''[[The Servant (film)|The Servant]] (1963)'' (directed by Joseph Losey); television reporter Robert Gold in ''[[Darling (film)|Darling]]'' (1965); Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in ''[[Accident (film)|Accident]]'' (1967); German industrialist Frederick Bruckman in [[Luchino Visconti]]'s ''[[The Damned (film)|The Damned]]'' (1969); the ex-Nazi, Max, in the chilling and controversial ''[[The Night Porter]]'' (1974) directed by [[Liliana Cavani]]; and, most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in ''[[Death in Venice (film)|Death in Venice]]'' (1971) also directed by Luchino Visconti, now probably his best-remembered role. In some of his other roles during the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]], Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet some of the films were of uneven quality. Some of these movies included ''[[The Angel Wore Red]]'' (1960), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer [[Ava Gardner]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]; ''[[Song Without End]]'' (1960), playing Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist [[Franz Liszt]], a film made under the direction of American director [[George Cukor]] in Bogarde's only foray into Hollywood; ''[[The Singer Not the Song]]'' (1961), as a Mexican bandit and co-starring [[John Mills|Sir John Mills]] as a priest; ''[[HMS Defiant]]'' (aka ''Damn the Defiant!'') (1962), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, in which Bogarde practically steals the movie from his co-star [[Alec Guinness|Sir Alec Guinness]]; ''[[I Could Go On Singing]]'' (1963), co-starring [[Judy Garland]] in her final screen role; ''[[The Mind Benders (film)|The Mind Benders]]'' (1963), an off-beat film where Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at [[Oxford University]] (precursor to ''Altered States'' (1980)); ''[[Hot Enough For June]]'', (aka ''Agent 8 3/4'') (1964), a James Bond-type spy spoof; ''[[King And Country]]'' (1964), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter [[Tom Courtenay]]; ''[[Modesty Blaise (1966 film)|Modesty Blaise]]'' (1966), a camp spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel; ''[[Our Mother's House]]'' (1967), an off-beat film playing an estranged father of seven children, directed by [[Jack Clayton]]; ''[[The Fixer (film)|The Fixer]]'' (1968), based on [[Bernard Malamud]]'s novel, co-starring [[Alan Bates]]; ''[[Sebastian (1968 film)|Sebastian]]'' (1968), playing a former Oxford professor heading the all-female decoding office of British Intelligence, co-starring [[John Gielgud|Sir John Gielgud]], [[Susannah York]], and [[Lilli Palmer]]; ''[[Oh! What A Lovely War]]'' (1969), co-starring Sir [[John Gielgud]], Sir [[Laurence Olivier]] and directed by [[Richard Attenborough|Sir Richard Attenborough]]; ''[[Justine (film)|Justine]]'' (1969), directed by George Cukor; ''[[Le Serpent]]'' (1973), co-starring [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Yul Brynner]]; ''[[A Bridge Too Far (1977 film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' (1977), in a rather controversial performance as [[Frederick Browning|Lieutenant General Frederick "Boy" Browning]]; ''[[Providence (film)|Providence]]'' (1977), co-starring Sir John Gielgud; ''[[Despair (film)|Despair]]'' (1978); and ''[[Daddy Nostalgie]]'' (1991) co-starring [[Jane Birkin]] as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role. While a contract performer at the Rank Organisation, Bogarde was considered for a screen version of ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence Of Arabia]]'', to be directed by [[Anthony Asquith]].{{Fact|date=October 2007}} The role of Lawrence eventually went to [[Peter O'Toole]] and was directed by [[David Lean]]. Not getting the role of Lawrence of Arabia was Bogarde's greatest screen disappointment.<ref name=MorleyS-DBRO /> Bogarde was also reportedly considered for the title role in MGM's ''[[Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1965).{{Fact|date=October 2007}} Earlier, he declined [[Louis Jourdan]]'s role as Gaston in MGM's ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958).{{Fact|date=October 2007}}. Also, according to John Coldstream's biography Bogarde was offered a stage role at The [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] by [[Sir Laurence Olivier]], but regetably had to decline due to film commitments. Bogarde was nominated six times as Best Actor by the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA), winning twice, for ''The Servant'' in 1963, and for ''Darling'' in 1965. He also received the London Film Critics Circle Lifetime Award in 1991. He made a total of 63 films between 1939 and 1991. ==Later career and private life== <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Dirk Bogarde.jpg|thumb|Cover of Bogarde biography]] --> In 1977, Bogarde embarked on his second career as an [[author]]. Starting with a first volume ''A Postillion Struck by Lightning'', he wrote a series of autobiographical volumes, novels and book reviews. As a writer Bogarde displayed a witty, elegant, highly literate and thoughtful style, though some find his style to be somewhat precious at times. Bogarde was a life-long bachelor and, during his life, was reported to be [[Homosexuality|homosexual]].<ref>Review by Mansel Stimpson of ''Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography'', by John Coldstream [http://www.galha.org/glh/242/coldstream.html]</ref> Bogarde's most serious friendship with a woman was with the [[bisexual]] French actress [[Capucine]]. For many years he shared his homes, first in Amersham, England, then in France with his manager [[Anthony Forwood]] (a former husband of the actress [[Glynis Johns]] and the father of her only child, actor Gareth Forwood), but repeatedly denied that their relationship was anything other than friendship. These denials were understandable, mainly given that homosexual acts were illegal during most of his career, and also given his following among female admirers which he was loath to jeopardise. His brother Gareth Van den Bogaerde confirmed in a 2004 interview that Bogarde was engaging in homosexual sex at a time when such acts were illegal, and also that his long-term relationship with Tony Forwood was more than simply that of a manager and friend. <ref>Gareth Van den Bogaerde interview with Jan Moir, ''The Telegraph'', 2 September 2004 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/09/02/bobo02.xml]</ref> Many people believed Bogarde's refusal to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to cover up his homosexuality was a major reason for his failure to become a star in Hollywood, together with the critical and commercial failure of ''[[Song Without End]]''. His friend [[Helena Bonham Carter]] believed Bogarde could never come out as gay in later life, after his movie stardom had ended, because he would not have been able to deal with the fact that he had been forced to live a lie during his career.<ref>Coldstream, John ''Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography'' (2004)</ref> Bogarde starred in the landmark [[1961 in film|1961 film]] ''[[Victim (film)|Victim]]'', playing a prominent homosexual barrister in London who fights the blackmailers of a young man with whom he had an emotional relationship. The young man commits suicide after being arrested for embezzlement, rather than ruining the attorney's reputation. In the process of exposing the ring of extortionists, Bogarde's character puts at risk his successful legal career and marriage in order to see that justice is served. ''Victim'' was the first mainstream British film to treat the subject of homosexuality seriously and the film helped lead to the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967|changing of the law]]. As Britain's leading box-office star of the 1950s, Bogarde displayed enormous personal courage in appearing in such a controversial film as ''Victim'', which could have destroyed his career at that time. However, his performance opened a path to more challenging roles that gained him respect as one of the leading actors in the intellectual ("art house") film genre. Bogarde's decision to appear in ''Victim'' appears even more daring today, given that many contemporary film stars are afraid to portray a serious gay character because of the perceived public reaction and effect on their career that such a role could have. Despite the stereotyping his performance in ''Victim'' could have brought him, during his career Bogarde portrayed heterosexual single or married men in the majority of his films, with the exception of his roles in ''Victim'', ''The Servant'', ''Modesty Blaise'', and ''Death in Venice'', although even those roles could be considered as being more bisexual than homosexual in nature. Bogarde's controversial film choices later in his career led him to have something of a [[cult following]]. The singer [[Morrissey]] was a fan and, according to [[Charlotte Rampling]]<ref>Interview, ''The Culture Show'', BBC2, [[17 June]] [[2006]]</ref>, Bogarde was approached in 1990 by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] to appear in her video for ''[[Justify My Love]]'', citing ''The Night Porter'' as an inspiration. Bogarde declined the offer. In 1984, Bogarde served as president of the jury at the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. He was the first Briton ever to serve in that capacity, and this represented an immense honor for Bogarde. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1992 for services to acting, and was the recipient of several honorary doctorates, including from [[St. Andrews University|St Andrews]] and [[Sussex University|Sussex]] universities. Formerly a heavy smoker, Bogarde suffered a minor stroke in November 1987 while Anthony Forwood was dying of [[Hepatocellular carcinoma|liver cancer]] and [[Parkinson's disease]]. Never afraid of voicing his opinion, after witnessing Forwood's protracted death he became active in promoting [[voluntary euthanasia]] for terminally ill patients in Britain and toured the UK giving lectures and answering questions from live audiences on the subject. It was a cause, he stated, that had been important to him since the war, during which he had witnessed severely injured men pleading to be put out of their misery<ref>Voluntary Euthanasia Society Interview</ref>. In September 1996, he underwent [[angioplasty]] to widen arteries leading to his heart and suffered a [[pulmonary embolism]] following this operation. For the final three years of his life Bogarde was paralyzed on one side of his body, which affected his speech. He managed, however, to complete a final volume of autobiography, which covered the stroke and its effect on him. He spent some time the day before he died with his good friend [[Lauren Bacall]]. Sir Dirk Bogarde died in London from a heart attack on [[May 8]], [[1999]], aged 78. His ashes were scattered at his former beloved estate of "Le Haut Clermont" in Grasse, Southern France. ==Filmography== Titles preceded by an asterisk (*) are [[Television movie|films made for television]]. {|class="wikitable" |- !Film !Year !Character |- |''[[Come on George!]]'' |[[1939]] |Extra <small>(uncredited)</small> |- |''[[Dancing with Crime]]'' |[[1947]] |Policeman |- |''[[Once a Jolly Swagman]]'' |[[1948]] |Bill Fox |- |''[[Esther Waters]]'' |[[1948]] |William Latch |- |''[[Boys in Brown]]'' |[[1949]] |Alfie Rawlins |- |''[[Quartet (film)|Quartet]]'' |[[1949]] |George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") |- |''[[Dear Mr. Prohack]]'' |[[1949]] |Charles Prohack |- |''[[The Woman in Question]]'' |[[1950]] |R.W. (Bob) Baker |- |''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' |[[1950]] |Tom Riley |- |''[[Blackmailed (1950 film)|Blackmailed]]'' |[[1950]] |Stephen Mundy |- |''[[So Long at the Fair]]'' |[[1950]] |George Hathaway |- |''[[Appointment in London]]'' |[[1952]] |Wing Commander Tim Mason |- |''Hunted'' |[[1952]] |Chris Lloyd |- |''[[Penny Princess]]'' |[[1952]] |Tony Craig |- |''[[The Gentle Gunman]]'' |[[1952]] |Matt Sullivan |- |''[[They Who Dare]]'' |[[1953]] |Lt. Graham |- |''[[The Sea Shall Not Have Them]]'' |[[1954]] |Flight Sgt. MacKay |- |''[[For Better, for Worse]]'' |[[1954]] |Tony Howard |- |''[[Doctor in the House]]'' |[[1954]] |Dr Simon Sparrow |- |''[[The Sleeping Tiger]]'' |[[1954]] |Frank Clemmons |- |''[[Simba (film)|Simba]]'' |[[1955]] |Alan Howard |- |''[[Doctor at Sea]]'' |[[1955]] |Dr. Simon Sparrow |- |''[[The Spanish Gardener]]'' |[[1956]] |Jose |- |''[[Cast a Dark Shadow]]'' |[[1957]] |Edward "Teddy" Bare |- |''[[Ill Met by Moonlight]]'' |[[1957]] |Maj. [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]] aka Philedem |- |''[[Doctor at Large]]'' |[[1957]] |Dr. Simon Sparrow |- |''[[Campbell's Kingdom]]'' |[[1957]] |Bruce Campbell |- |''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' |[[1958]] |[[Sydney Carton]] |- |''[[The Wind Cannot Read]]'' |[[1958]] |Flight Lt. Michael Quinn |- |''[[The Doctor's Dilemma (film)|The Doctor's Dilemma]]'' |[[1958]] |Louis Dubedat |- |''[[Libel (film)|Libel]]'' |[[1959]] |Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon/Frank Welney/Number Fifteen |- |''[[Song Without End]]'' |[[1960]] |[[Franz Liszt]] |- |''[[The Angel Wore Red]]'' |[[1960]] |Arturo Carrera |- |''[[Victim (film)|Victim]]'' |[[1961]] |Melville Farr |- |''[[We Joined the Navy]]'' |[[1962]] |Cameo appearance (Dr. Simon Sparrow) |- |''[[The Singer Not the Song]]'' |[[1961]] |Anacleto |- |''[[H.M.S. Defiant]]'' |[[1962]] |1st Lt. Scott-Padget |- |''[[The Password is Courage]]'' |[[1962]] |Sgt. Maj. [[Charles Coward]] |- |''[[The Mind Benders (film)|The Mind Benders]]'' |[[1963]] |Dr. Henry Longman |- |''[[I Could Go On Singing]]'' |[[1963]] |David Donne |- |''[[The Servant (film)|The Servant]]'' |[[1963]] |Hugo Barrett |- |''[[Doctor in Distress (film)|Doctor in Distress]]'' |[[1963]] |Dr. Simon Sparrow |- |''[[King & Country]]'' |[[1964]] |Capt. Hargreaves |- |''[[Hot Enough for June]]'' |[[1964]] |Nicholas Whistler |- |''[[The High Bright Sun]]'' |[[1964]] |Maj. McGuire |- |''[[Darling (film)|Darling]]'' |[[1965]] |Robert Gold |- |''[[Modesty Blaise (1966 film)|Modesty Blaise]]'' |[[1966]] |Gabriel |- |*''[[Blithe Spirit]]'' |[[1966]] |Charles Condomine |- |''[[Accident(film)|Accident]]'' |[[1967]] |Stephen |- |''[[Our Mother's House]]'' |[[1967]] |Charlie Hook |- |''[[Sebastian (1968 film)|Sebastian]]'' |[[1968]] |Sebastian |- |''[[The Fixer (film)|The Fixer]]'' |[[1968]] |Bibikov |- |''[[The Damned (film)|La Caduta degli dei (The Damned)]]'' |[[1969]] |Frederick Bruckmann |- |''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'' |[[1969]] |Stephen |- |''[[Justine (film)|Justine]]'' |[[1969]] |Pursewarden |- |*''[[Upon This Rock]]'' |[[1970]] |[[Bonnie Prince Charlie]] |- |''[[Death in Venice (film)|Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice)]]'' |[[1971]] |Gustav von Aschenbach |- |''[[Night Flight from Moscow]]'' |[[1973]] |Philip Boyle |- |''[[The Night Porter|Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter)]]'' |[[1974]] |Maximilian Theo Aldorfer |- |''[[Permission to Kill]]'' |[[1975]] |Alan Curtis |- |''[[A Bridge Too Far (1977 film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' |[[1977]] |[[Frederick Browning|Lt. Gen. Frederick 'Boy' Browning]] |- |''[[Providence (film)|Providence]]'' |[[1977]] |Claude Langham |- |''[[Despair (film)|Despair]]'' |[[1978]] |Hermann Hermann |- |*''[[The Patricia Neal Story]]'' |[[1981]] |[[Roald Dahl]] |- |*''[[May We Borrow Your Husband?]]'' |[[1986]] |William Harris |- |''[[The Vision (TV Movie)|The Vision]]'' |[[1988]] |James Marriner |- |''[[Daddy Nostalgie]]'' |[[1990]] |Daddy |} ==Other works== ===Autobiographies and memoirs=== *''A Postillion Struck by Lightning'', 1977 *''Snakes and Ladders'', 1978 *''An Orderly Man'', 1983 *''Backcloth'', 1986 *''A Particular Friendship'', 1989 *''Great Meadow'', 1992 *''A Short Walk from Harrods'', 1993 *''Cleared for Take-Off'', 1995 *''For the Time Being: Collected Journalism'', 1998 *''Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Autobiography'' *''Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Career Illustrated'' with [[Robert Tanitch]] ===Novels=== *''A Gentle Occupation'', 1980 *''Voices in the Garden'', 1981 *''West of Sunset'', 1984 *''Jericho'', 1991 *''A Period of Adjustment'', 1994 *''Closing Ranks'', 1997 ===Biography=== Dirk Bogarde, Rank Outsider, by Sheridan Morley, appeared in 1996. Dirk Bogarde, The Authorised [[Biography]], by John Coldstream, appeared in [[2004]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.dirkbogarde.co.uk/ Official Dirk Bogarde website] * {{imdb name|0001958|name=Dirk Bogarde}} * {{Screenonline name|id=447784|name=Dirk Bogarde}}. Biography and credits * [http://www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?item=362 Dirk Bogarde] [[Fyne Times]] article * [http://www.celesteartprize.co.uk/2007/publiconlinevote/artist_6.asp Dirk Bogarde] Dirk Bogarde by Neil McNally * [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/bogarde_d.html Dirk Bogarde] Dirk Bogarde at [[glbtq.com]] * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bogarde&GSfn=dirk&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=19424& Dirk Bogarde] Profile at [[Find A Grave]] <!--spacing, please do not remove--> {{start box}} {{s-awards}} {{succession box | title = [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]] | years = 1963<br>'''for ''[[The Servant]]'' ''' | before= [[Peter O'Toole]]<br>for ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' | after = [[Richard Attenborough]]<br>for ''[[Guns at Batasi]]'' & ''[[Seance on a Wet Afternoon]]'' }} {{succession box | title = BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | years = 1965<br>'''for ''[[Darling]]'' ''' | before= [[Richard Attenborough]]<br>for ''[[Guns at Batasi]]'' & ''[[Seance on a Wet Afternoon]]'' | after = [[Richard Burton]]<br>for ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' & ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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