Declassified docs reveal closeted actor Dirk Bogarde was the target of a Russian gay entrapment plot
Image Credit: Dirk Bogarde in ‘Hot Enough For June’ via Kate Gabrielle, Flickr The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who became a household name in the 1950s and ’60s thanks especially ...
These script pages from Dirk Bogarde’s own copy of the screenplay for Victim reveal the important modifications he made to ramp up the emotional impact of his brave turn as a barrister being ...
FILM star Dirk Bogarde was investigated by spies at MI5 as they thought he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the Russians, newly-declassified files show. Documents released to the ...
Lord Attenborough was an "idiot", Vanessa Redgrave a "ninny" and Sir John Gielgud struggled to understand Shakespeare, according to Sir Dirk Bogarde. The extraordinarily caustic comments by the late ...
Dirk Bogarde's most fruitful professional relationship was with the director Joseph Losey, who had left America for exile in England at the time of the McCarthy witch-hunts and Hollywood blacklists.
From heartthrob to icon of edginess, the actor had an extraordinary career. On the centenary of his birth, Sophie Monks Kaufman wonders if we will see so daring a leading man again. Many actors have ...
As well as appearing in more than sixty films, Dirk Bogarde wrote six novels, eight volumes of autobiography and a volume of journalism, and recorded Lyrics for Lovers, an album of spoken word covers ...
The BFI announced that Lady Lee, Sir Christopher Lee’s widow, has donated his photographic archive, to the BFI National Archive.
Bogarde, who died in 1999, never came out publicly as gay FILM star Dirk Bogarde was investigated by spies at MI5 as they thought he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the Russians, ...
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