Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, known as Dirk Bogarde, was an English actor and writer. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the Housefor the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth28 March 1921
years twenties temper
I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
profession
So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
photography sweet cameras
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
photography cameras polemics
The camera can photograph thought.
flies imagine ripped side
I had my flies ripped so often that eventually, in public, I had to have a side zip... can you imagine anything more humiliating than that?
may towers social
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
privacy said being-true
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.