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 ...

At the beginning of Adam Low's recent and highly revealing Arena documentary on Dirk Bogarde, we see the bonfire to which the actor consigned most of his papers towards the end of his life - an ...

Dirk Bogarde’s magnificent performance as a man hiding his sexuality is the strongest note in a difficult, and groundbreaking, film that challenged censors Twenty seven minutes into Victim, after some ...

The Odeon, Leicester Square, 1960. The red-carpet premiere of a film that will change the story of British film and British society. The lights are killed, the crowd falls silent. The roar of ...

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 ...

Dirk Bogarde once remarked to Russell Harty: "I don't see the point in somebody, a long time later, riffling through the memorabilia and the debris of my life." But a clear-headed biography is ...

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, ...