Dirk Bogarde - biography

“I owe the public nothing more than good entertainment.  That’s all they’re paying me for.  I don’t think they should know if I use Johnson’s polish on my loo floor or if I sleep with Chinese women.”

“The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they’ll understand it in Milwaukee.”

“There’s something wrong with actors, we’ve always been a suspect breed.  Socially, I find myself more admissable now in England because I’ve written books.”

“Cinema is just a form of masturbation.  Sexual relief for disappointed people.  Women write and say: I let my husband do it because I think it’s you lying on top of me.”

“Everyone wants to get into movies for some reason, but there aren’t any movies left.”

“I simply love the camera and it loves me.  But the amount of concentration you have to use to feed that camera is so enormous that you’re absolutely ragged at the end of a day after doing something simple - like a look.”

“My right profile is the worst one.  They built all the sets at Pinewood to favour my left profile.  I was like Loretta Young - nobody ever saw my right side.”

“The camera can photograph thought.”

“If you write about Hollywood, you can only write farce.  It’s so way over the top you can’t believe it.  It’s Sunset Boulevard, it really is.  And it’s cut-throat at the same time.”

“I don’t lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.”

“It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy.  I can only suppose it must be true.”

“Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.”

“So I’m in quite the wrong profession obviously.”

“TV?  Never!  I don’t want my audience going for a piss or making tea while I’m hard at work.”

Dirk Bogarde has appeared in the following films:
Come on George! (1939)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Esther Waters (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
Boys in Brown (1949)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
The Woman in Question (1950)
Blackmailed (1951)
Appointment in London (1952)
Hunted (1952)
Penny Princess (1952)
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Desperate Moment (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
They Who Dare (1954)
Doctor in the House (1954)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
Simba (1955)
Doctor at Sea (1955)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Campbell’s Kingdom (1957)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
The Doctor’s Dilemma (1958)
Libel (1959)
The Angel Wore Red (1960)
Song Without End (1960)
The Singer Not the Song (1961)
Victim (1961)
We Joined the Navy (1962)
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
The Mind Benders (1962)
The Password Is Courage (1962)
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
Doctor in Distress (1963)
The Servant (1963)
Hot Enough for June (1964)
King and Country (1964)
The High Bright Sun (1964)
Darling (1965)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Accident (1967)
Our Mother’s House (1967)
Sebastian (1968)
The Fixer (1968)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Justine (1969)
La Caduta degli dei (1969)
Morte a Venezia (1971)
Le Serpent (1973)
Il Portiere di notte (1974)
Permission to Kill (1975)
Providence (1977)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Despair (1978)
Daddy Nostalgie (1990)
Luchino Visconti (1999)