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.
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.
This is the fifth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, which takes him from France to London.
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.
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.
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.
Den engelske skuespillers biografi med baggrund i breve skrevet fra marts 1967 til januar 1970
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.
The sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Through the eyes of a 11-year-old in the 30s, the book recounts an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness. Meanwhile the world outside prepared to go to war.
There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand round the bed of the very last of their nannies, who is quietly slipping away. Ada Stephens-known as Nanny Grayle, and well into her nineties-is saying farewell. In the strange clarity which comes with the last remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. She says that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war hero 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her will - she has left everything to her nephew, Robert. Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow death, the unravelling begins. The family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory which was Hartleap, will slide into Nanny's grave with her. As the terrible truth becomes known, desperately they try to close ranks...
