Dirk Bogarde Boeken

Alice Arlington, de weduwe van de schrijver Hugo Arlington, is na de dood van haar man gedwongen haar riante leventje op te geven. Ze verhuist naar een kleurloze en mistroostige wijk ten westen van Sunset, waar voornamelijk immigranten en voormalige vluchtelingen uit Europa wonen: het zijn mensen die teren op hun herinneringen aan de goede oude tijd, zoals de Russische gravin Irina Miratova en haar bediende Mouse, de overwerkte Engelse professor Nettles en zijn pleegdochter Lea, of de cineast Dubrovnik. Maar hoe verschillend hun achtergrond ook is, ze hebben allemaal met elkaar te maken doordat ieder van hen een stukje bezit dat past in de puzzel van Hugo Arlingtons leven. Geleidelijkaan wordt dan ook duidelijk dat Alice niet de enige is die door de dood van haar man wordt achtervolgd. Wanneer de Engelse auteur Jonathan Pool, die een paar dagen in Los Angeles verblijft in de hoop dat zijn bestseller verfilmd zal worden, zijn oude vriendin Alice ontmoet, komt de waarheid rond Hugo Arlington langzaam maar zeker aan het licht. Arlington was bepaald niet de Gouden Man waar hij op het eerste gezicht altijd voor gehouden werd. Steeds meer mensen blijken op de hoogte te zijn van de dubieuze spelletjes en de macabere fantasieën die hij in praktijk bracht. Die ontdekking betekent voor de betrokkenen een herbezinning op het verleden, met als gevolg een aantal beslissingen die tot een gruwelijke climax leiden.

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...

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 ...

Chronicles the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. He and his family lived in Java on a tea plantation before the war and they were interned by the Japanese and transported to a series of camps.

"Penguin 60s."Extract from: A short walk from Harrods. Originally published: London : Viking, 1993.

The Penguin 60 is an excerpt from Bogarde's autobiography Backcloth.

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...

Illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this tribute to actor Dirk Bogarde covers his appearances in film, theatre and television listed role by role in chronological order, linked by a running commentary and quotes from critics of the day. Bogarde has worked with directors as diverse as Joseph Losey, John Schlesinger and Visconti. Robert Tanitch has written extensively on film and the theatre. His previous titles include photographic biographies of Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud.

Dommage, ce mélodrame ne vaut pas les autres livres de cet auteur-acteur britannique.