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.
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.
Dommage, ce mélodrame ne vaut pas les autres livres de cet auteur-acteur britannique.
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.
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.
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...
Den engelske skuespillers biografi med baggrund i breve skrevet fra marts 1967 til januar 1970
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.
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.