Dirk Bogarde was een gevierde Britse acteur, bekend om zijn meeslepende optredens in het midden van de 20e eeuw. Overstappend van het toneel naar het witte doek, cultiveerde hij een reputatie van veelzijdigheid, waarbij hij bekwaam een breed spectrum aan personages vertolkte. Zijn rollen doken vaak in psychologische complexiteit, variërend van boeiende antihelden tot genuanceerde autoriteitsfiguren. Naast zijn acteercarrière vond Bogarde later literair succes met zijn inzichtelijke autobiografische geschriften en kritische essays.
Continuing the journey of his life, this memoir offers an intimate glimpse into Dirk Bogarde's experiences and reflections. Delving into his career in film and literature, the narrative captures the complexities of fame, personal relationships, and the passage of time. With wit and candor, Bogarde shares anecdotes that reveal both the glamorous and challenging aspects of his life, making it a compelling read for fans and newcomers alike.
First published in 1977, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is volume one of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs Following Bogarde from childhood through adolescence, to the beginnings of his budding career, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is a heartfelt memoir, offering insight into what created the drive and charisma that eventually made him a star. Dreamy, sun-soaked summers full of freedom spent with his younger sister are mixed with holidays in France and rambling the countryside. Writing plays instead of playing sports, Dirk's talents lay in the creativity of painting and expression rather than in the precision of maths or science, much to the growing concern of his parents. Packed off to live with relatives in Scotland, his father hoped that a proper Scottish education would equip his son to follow in his footsteps for a career in Newspapers. In Scotland, Dirk learned to defend himself, to sound like a native Glaswegian, and to hide his intense homesickness. In essence; he learned to act.
This is the fifth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, which takes him from France to London.
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.
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 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
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 ...
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...
