Dirk Bogarde Books

March 28, 1921 – May 8, 1999

Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor renowned for his compelling performances throughout the mid-20th century. Transitioning from stage to screen, he cultivated a reputation for his versatility, adeptly portraying a wide spectrum of characters. His roles often delved into psychological complexity, ranging from compelling anti-heroes to nuanced authority figures. Beyond his acting, Bogarde later found literary success with his insightful autobiographical writings and critical essays.

Snakes and Ladders
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The sequel to Dirk Bogarde's bestselling memoir, Postillion Struck by Lightning In Snakes and Ladders, Dirk Bogarde continues his memoirs, from the trials of an army training camp at Catterick to the greatest challenge of his film career - the role of von Aschenbach in Death in Venice. Challenges were a constant feature in his life, some brought by chance, some self-imposed. It was an accident which altered his army career, a mistake which launched him into films. This second volume charts the ups and downs Bogarde experienced on the way to becoming one of the finest cinema actors of our time. It is also about the people who helped him in this game of 'snakes and ladders' - family and friends, actors and actresses, directors and producers, including Judy Garland.
A short walk from Harrods
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This is the fifth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, which takes him from France to London.
Cleared for Take-off
240 pages
9 hours of reading
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This is the sixth and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography. It is a recollection of a life, a gallery of family and friends in war-ravaged Europe, in India and Java, and in the London of the 1950s. He also shares his memories of Italy and Provence, and concludes in the London of today.
An Orderly Man
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As work on Visconti's Death in Venice draws to a close, Dirk Bogarde is preparing his house in Provence as a retreat. This third volume of his autobiography also covers the years in which he gave some of his finest, most sensitive acting performances and began his career as a writer, imposing order on a rich and varied life.
Backcloth
313 pages
11 hours of reading
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The fourth and final volume of autobiography from Dirk Bogarde, in which he retraces his life from childhood to the present day. Like the earlier volumes, it is a very personal account of his life behind the scenes, and an affectionate, amusing and touching review of an extraordinary life.
A particular friendship
208 pages
8 hours of reading
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Den engelske skuespillers biografi med baggrund i breve skrevet fra marts 1967 til januar 1970
A Gentle Occupation
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1945. The last outpost of a fading Empire. And the final savagery of a forgotten war ... Hostilities have ceased with the ending of the war in South-East Asia. But on one island in the Java Sea, 400 miles south of Singapore, the fragile truce is plunged into the chaos of violence and nationalist uprising. As an Empire crumbles, it is those who remain to keep the peace who must fight the hardest to survive ...
Jericho
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William Caldicott leads a complicated life as his impending divorce looms ahead of him. Further complications are added when William receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James as well as the key to James' house in France. William hesitantly accepts the key and begins the search for his brother. As he delves deeper and deeper into his brother's strange life, William discovers things that even his vivid writer's imagination could not have conjured up...
West of Sunset
For the Time Being
In the course of a distinguished writing career that began with his first volume of autobiography, Dirk Bogarde has written a substantial amount of journalism. These articles are now brought together in one volume by the book editor of the "Sunday Telegraph", John Coldstream.