Dirk Bogarde | |
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 Publicity portrait, 1964 | |
| Born | Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (1921-03-28)28 March 1921 West Hampstead, London, England |
| Died | 8 May 1999(1999-05-08) (aged 78) Chelsea, London, England |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1939–1990 |
| Partner | Anthony Forwood (1949–1988) (Forwood's death)[1] |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Rank | Major |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
| Website | dirkbogarde.co.uk (Dirk Bogarde Estate) |
Sir Dirk Bogarde (bornDerek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially amatinée idol in films such asDoctor in the House (1954) for theRank Organisation, he later acted inart house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess".[2]
In a second career, Bogarde wrote seven volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collectedjournalism, mainly from articles inThe Daily Telegraph. He fought in theSecond World War and over the course of five years reached the rank of major and was awarded seven medals. His poetry has been published in war anthologies, and a grey ink brush drawing, "Tents in Orchard. 1944", is in the collection of theBritish Museum.[3]
Having come to prominence in films includingThe Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, Bogarde starred in the popularDoctor film series (1954–1963). He twice won theBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, forThe Servant (1963) andDarling (1965). His other notable film roles includedVictim (1961),Accident (1967),The Damned (1969),Death in Venice (1971),The Night Porter (1974),A Bridge Too Far (1977) andDespair (1978). He was appointed aCommander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and aKnight Bachelor in 1992.
Bogarde was the eldest of three children born to Ulric van den Bogaerde (1892–1972) and Margaret Niven (1898–1980). Ulric was born inPerry Barr,Birmingham, ofFlemish ancestry, and was art editor ofThe Times. Margaret Niven, a former actress, wasScottish, fromGlasgow. Dirk Bogarde was born in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road,[4]West Hampstead, London, and was baptised on 30 October 1921, at St. Mary's Church,Kilburn.[4] He had a younger sister, Elizabeth (born 1924), and a brother, Gareth Ulric Van Den Bogaerde, an advertising film producer, born in July 1933 inHendon.[5]
Conditions in the family home in north London became cramped, so Bogarde was moved to Glasgow to stay with relatives of his mother. He stayed there for more than three years, returning at the end of 1937.[5] He attendedUniversity College School and the formerAllan Glen's High School of Science in Glasgow, a time he described in his autobiography as an unhappy one. Having secured a scholarship atChelsea College of Art, Bogarde completed his two year course, and landed "a back-stage job as tea-boy at seven shillings and sixpence per week".[6] A chance to act as a stand-in convinced Bogarde that "he needed some additional basic training, and he joined a provincialrepertory group". His first on-screen appearance was as an uncredited extra in theGeorge Formby comedy,Come On George! (1939).[7]
During the war, Derek "Pip" Bogaerde served in theBritish Army, initially with theRoyal Corps of Signals. He was then commissioned at the age of 22 into theQueen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 2 April 1943 with the rank ofsecond lieutenant.[8] He served in both theEuropean andPacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer.
Bogarde served as an intelligence officer with the21st Army Group (Field MarshalBernard Montgomery) as it liberated Europe.[9] Taylor Downing's book,Spies in the Sky, tells of Bogarde's work in photo-reconnaissance in the aftermath ofD-Day, moving throughNormandy withRoyal Canadian Air Force units. By July 1944, they were at the"B.8" airfield atSommervieu, nearBayeux. As an air photographic interpreter with the rank ofcaptain, Bogarde was later attached to theSecond Army, where he selected ground targets in France, Holland and Germany for theSecond Tactical Air Force andRAF Bomber Command.[10] Villages on key routes were heavily bombed to prevent theWehrmacht'sarmour from reaching the invasionlodgement areas.[11] In a 1986Yorkshire Television interview withRussell Harty, Bogarde recalled going onpainting trips, sometimes to see the villages which he had selected as targets,
I found what I had thought in the rubble were a whole row offootballs, and they weren't footballs ... they were children's heads ... A whole school of kids, aconvent, had been pulled out of school, and lined up in this little narrow alleyway between the buildings to save them from the bombing, and the whole thing had come in on top of them.[10]
Bogarde said he was one of the firstAllied officers to reach theBergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on 20 April 1945, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he had difficulty speaking for many years afterwards.[12]
The gates were opened, and then I realised that I was looking atDante'sInferno. And a girl came up who spoke English, because she recognised one of the badges, and she ... her breasts were like, sort of, empty purses, she had no top on, and a pair of man's pyjamas, you know, the prison pyjamas, and no hair ... and all around us there were mountains of dead people, I mean mountains of them, and they were slushy, and they were slimy.[10]
There was some doubt as to whether he really visited Belsen, although, more than a decade after publishing his biography, and following additional research, John Coldstream concluded that "it is now possible to state with some authority that he did at least set foot inside the camp".[13]
Bogarde disclosed in a 1966 interview with Woman's Mirror that he was at fault in a multiple fatality car-crash on VJ Day in India, "I don't drive-I killed some people once, in a car crash, and I'll never drive again, not even on a film set. It was a long time ago, on VJ day, actually, in India, and they were all soldiers."[14]
The horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he said he witnessed left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; in the late 1980s, he wrote that he would disembark from alift rather than ride with a German of his generation.[15] Nevertheless, three of his more memorable film roles were as Germans, one of them as a formerSS officer inThe Night Porter (1974).[16]
Bogarde was most vocal towards the end of his life onvoluntary euthanasia, of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his lifelong partner and managerAnthony Forwood (the former husband of actressGlynis Johns) in 1988. He gave an interview to John Hofsess, London executive director of theVoluntary Euthanasia Society,
My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ... On one occasion, thejeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me. A gurgling voice said, "Help. Kill me." With shaking hands I reached for my small pouch to load my revolver ... I had to look for my bullets – by which time somebody else had already taken care of him. I heard the shot. I still remember that gurgling sound. A voice pleading for death.
Bogarde's LondonWest End theatre-acting debut was in 1939, with the stage name "Derek Bogaerde", inJ. B. Priestley's playCornelius. In 1947 he appeared at theFortune Theatre inMichael Clayton Hutton'sPower Without Glory.[17] After the war, he started pursuing film roles using the name "Dirk Bogarde". One of Bogarde's earliest starring roles in cinema was in the 1949 filmOnce a Jolly Swagman, where he played a daring speedway ace, riding for the Cobras. This was filmed at New Cross Speedway, in South East London, during one of the postwar years in which speedway was the biggest spectator sport in the UK.
Bogarde was contracted to theRank Organisation under the wing of the prolific independent film producerBetty Box, who produced most of his early films and was instrumental in creating hismatinée idol image.[18] His Rank contract began following his appearance inEsther Waters (1948), his first credited role, replacingStewart Granger.[19] Another early role of his was inThe Blue Lamp (1950), playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable (Jack Warner), whilst inSo Long at the Fair (1950), afilm noir, he played a handsome artist who comes to the rescue ofJean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris. He also had roles as an accidental murderer inHunted (orThe Stranger in Between, 1952), a youngwing commander inBomber Command inAppointment in London (1953), and inDesperate Moment (1953), a wrongly imprisoned man who regains hope of clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart,Mai Zetterling, is still alive.
Bogarde featured as a medical student inDoctor in the House (1954), a film that made him one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s. The film co-starredKenneth More andDonald Sinden, withJames Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor. The production was initiated by Betty Box, who had picked up a copy of the book atCrewe during a long rail journey and had seen its possibility as a film. Box andRalph Thomas had difficulties convincing Rank executives that people would go to a film about doctors and that Bogarde, who up to then had played character roles, had sex appeal and could play light comedy. They were allocated a modest budget and were allowed to use only available Rank contract artists. The film was the first of theDoctor film series based on the books byRichard Gordon.
InThe Sleeping Tiger (1954), Bogarde played a neurotic criminal with co-starAlexis Smith. It was Bogarde's first film for American expatriate directorJoseph Losey.[20]
He did his secondDoctor film,Doctor at Sea (1955), co-starringBrigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles; played a returningcolonial who fights theMau-Mau withVirginia McKenna andDonald Sinden inSimba (1955);Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them;The Spanish Gardener (1956), withMichael Hordern,Jon Whiteley andCyril Cusack;Doctor at Large (1957), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in theDoctor film series, with laterBond girlShirley Eaton; thePowell and Pressburger productionIll Met by Moonlight (1957) co-starringMarius Goring as GermanGeneral Kreipe, kidnapped onCrete byPatrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor (Bogarde) andW. Stanley Moss (David Oxley), and a fellow band of Cretan resistance fighters based onW. Stanley Moss' real-life account (Ill Met by Moonlight) of the Second World Warabduction;[21]A Tale of Two Cities (1958), a faithful retelling ofCharles Dickens' classic; as aflight lieutenant in theFar East, who falls in love with a beautiful Japanese teacherYoko Tani inThe Wind Cannot Read (1958);The Doctor's Dilemma (1959), based on a play byGeorge Bernard Shaw and co-starringLeslie Caron andRobert Morley; andLibel (1959), playing three roles and co-starringOlivia de Havilland. Bogarde was called "Rank's jewel in the crown."[22]
After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image and "chose roles that challenged received morality and that pushed the scope of cinema".[2] He starred in the filmVictim (1961), playing a Londonbarrister who fights the blackmailers of a young man with whom he has had a deeply emotional relationship. The young man commits suicide after being arrested for embezzlement, rather than ruin his beloved's career. In exposing the ring of extortionists, Bogarde's character risks his reputation and marriage to see that justice is done.Victim was the first British film to portray the humiliation to which gay people were exposed via discriminatory law and as a victimised minority; it is said to have had some effect upon the laterSexual Offences Act 1967 ending, to some extent, the illegal status of male homosexual activity.
He again teamed up with Joseph Losey to play Hugo Barrett, a decadent valet, inThe Servant (1963), with a script byHarold Pinter, and which garnered Bogarde aBAFTA Award. That year also saw the release ofThe Mind Benders, in which he played a professor conductingsensory deprivation experiments atOxford University (and which anticipatesAltered States [1980]). The following year saw another collaboration with Losey in the anti-war filmKing and Country, in which Bogarde played an army officer at acourt-martial, reluctantly defending deserterTom Courtenay. He won a second BAFTA for his role as a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold inDarling (1965), directed byJohn Schlesinger. Bogarde, Losey and Pinter reunited forAccident (1967), which recounted the travails of Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor.
Our Mother's House (1967) is an off-beat film noir and the British entry at theVenice Film Festival, directed byJack Clayton, in which Bogarde plays a ne'er-do-well father who descends upon "his" seven children on the death of their mother. In his first collaboration withLuchino Visconti inLa Caduta degli dei (The Damned, 1969), Bogarde played German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann alongsideIngrid Thulin. Two years later Visconti was back at the helm when Bogarde portrayed Gustav von Aschenbach inMorte a Venezia (Death in Venice).[23] In 1974, the controversialIl Portiere di notte (The Night Porter) saw Bogarde cast as an ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, co-starringCharlotte Rampling, and directed byLiliana Cavani. He played Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer (John Gielgud) in the well-received, multidimensional French filmProvidence (1977), directed byAlain Resnais, and industrialist Hermann Hermann, who descends into madness inDespair (1978) directed byRainer Werner Fassbinder. "It was the best performance I've ever done in my life," he later recounted. "Fassbinder... really screwed the film up. He tore it to pieces with a scissors."[24] This led to Bogarde going on an extended hiatus. "And I thought, 'OK. Give it up'. So I gave it up and I didn't do another film for fourteen years." He returned one last time, as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier'sDaddy Nostalgie, (orThese Foolish Things) (1991), co-starringJane Birkin as his daughter.
In the 1960s and 1970s Bogarde played opposite many renowned stars.The Angel Wore Red (1960) saw Bogarde playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainerAva Gardner during theSpanish Civil War. The same year, inSong Without End he portrayed Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianistFranz Liszt, a film initially directed byCharles Vidor (who died during shooting) and completed by Bogarde's friendGeorge Cukor, which was the actor's only foray into Hollywood.[25] The campyThe Singer Not the Song (1961) starred Bogarde as a Mexican bandit alongsideJohn Mills as a priest.
InH.M.S. Defiant (orDamn the Defiant!) (1962), he played the sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring SirAlec Guinness;I Could Go On Singing (1963), co-starringJudy Garland in her final screen role;Hot Enough for June (orAgent 8¾) (1964), aJames Bond-type spy spoof co-starringRobert Morley;Modesty Blaise (1966), a campy spy send-up playing arch villain Gabriel oppositeMonica Vitti andTerence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey;The Fixer (1968), based onBernard Malamud's novel, co-starringAlan Bates;Sebastian (1968), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love withSusannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads forBritish Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud andLilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell;Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and SirLaurence Olivier and directed byRichard Attenborough;Justine (1969), directed by George Cukor;Le Serpent (1973), co-starringHenry Fonda andYul Brynner.
A Bridge Too Far (1977), also starringSean Connery, and again directed by Richard Attenborough, saw Bogarde give a controversial performance as Lieutenant GeneralFrederick 'Boy' Browning. Bogarde claimed he had known General Browning from his time on Field Marshal Montgomery's staff during the war, and took issue with the largely negative portrayal of the general whom he played inA Bridge Too Far. Browning's widow, author DameDaphne du Maurier, ferociously attacked his characterisation and "the resultant establishment fallout, much of ithomophobic, wrongly convinced [Bogarde] that the newly ennobled Sir Richard [Attenborough] had deliberately contrived to scupper his chance of a knighthood."[26] While several of his fellow actors were veterans, Bogarde was the only cast member to have served at the battles being depicted in the film, having entered Brussels the day after its liberation, and worked on the planning of Operation Market Garden.[9]
In 1977, Bogarde embarked on his second career as an author. Starting with a first volumeA Postillion Struck by Lightning (an allusion to the phraseMy postillion has been struck by lightning), he wrote a series of 15 books—nine volumes of memoirs and six novels, as well as essays, reviews, poetry and collected journalism. As a writer, Bogarde displayed a witty, elegant, highly literate and thoughtful style.[23]
While under contract with the Rank Organisation, Bogarde was set to play the role ofT. E. Lawrence in a proposed filmLawrence written byTerence Rattigan and to be directed byAnthony Asquith.[27] On the eve of production, after a year of preparation by Bogarde, Rattigan and Asquith, the film was scrapped without full explanation—ostensibly for budgetary reasons—to the dismay of all three men.[28] The abrupt scrapping ofLawrence, a role long researched and keenly anticipated by Bogarde, was among his greatest screen disappointments.[18] (Rattigan reworked the script as a play,Ross, which opened to great success in 1960, initially with Alec Guinness playing Lawrence.) Bogarde was also reportedly considered for the title role inMGM'sDoctor Zhivago (1965).[29] Earlier, he had declinedLouis Jourdan's role as Gaston in MGM'sGigi (1958).[30]
His contract with Rank had precluded him from accepting the lead in thefilm adaptation of John Osborne's ground-breaking stage play,Look Back in Anger in 1959.[9] In 1961, Bogarde was offered the chance to play Hamlet at the recently foundedChichester Festival Theatre by artistic director SirLaurence Olivier but had to decline owing to film commitments.[31] Bogarde later said that he regretted declining Olivier's offer and with it the chance to "really learn my craft".[32]
After his acting career had given him some success, Bogarde moved from London and rented a cottage on the Bendrose Estate inLittle Chalfont,Buckinghamshire, the family home of his business manager and partner,Anthony "Tote" Forwood.[33] Bogarde subsequently lived in the area for some 40 years. After an unsuccessful attempt to gain planning permission to convert the estate into a housing development, Bogarde bought the adjoiningBeel House and Park from William Lowndes for £4,000. After tearing down the servants' wing, Bogarde and Forwood had the main house redeveloped and refurbished "to bring more light" into the original 1700s core. They lived there until 1960, after the development ofDr Challoner's High School just 200 yards from Beel House. The couple subsequently moved to Drummer's Yard nearBeaconsfield. Beel House was later owned byOzzy andSharon Osbourne, andRobert Kilroy Silk, who sold it for £6.5m in the mid-2010s.[33]
Bogarde and Forwood later moved toProvence, France, then Italy, before returning to France. They moved back to London shortly before Forwood's death in 1988.[34]
The critical and commercial failure ofSong Without End affected his Hollywood leading man hopes. He struggled with the trauma of his active service, compounded by rapid fame, recounting, "First there was the war, and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was afilm star. It happened all too soon."[9]
Bogarde, a heavy smoker, had a minorstroke in November 1987 while Forwood was dying ofliver cancer andParkinson's disease. In September 1996, he underwentangioplasty to unblock arteries leading to his heart and suffered a massive stroke following the operation.[35] He was paralysed on one side of his body, which affected his speech, and from then on used a wheelchair. He then completed the final volume of hisautobiography, which covered the effects of the stroke, and published an edition of his collectedjournalism, mainly fromThe Daily Telegraph. Bogarde spent some time with his friendLauren Bacall the day before he died at his home in London from a heart attack on 8 May 1999, aged 78. His ashes were scattered at his former estate Le Pigeonnier inGrasse,southern France.[36]
Bogarde was nominated five times as Best Actor byBAFTA, winning twice, forThe Servant in 1963 and forDarling in 1965. He also received theLondon Film Critics Circle Lifetime Award in 1991. He made a total of 63 films between 1939 and 1991. In 1983, he received a special award for service to the cinema at theCannes Festival. He was awarded theBritish Film Institute Fellowship in 1987. In 1988, Bogarde was honoured with the first BAFTA Tribute Award for an outstanding contribution to cinema.
Bogarde was created a Knight Bachelor in the United Kingdom in 1992, awarded theCommandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1990, anhonorary doctorate of literature on 4 July 1985 bySt Andrews University in Scotland, and an honorarydoctorate of letters in 1993 by theUniversity of Sussex in England. In 1984, Bogarde served as president of the jury at theCannes Film Festival, the first British person to serve in this capacity.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Come On George! | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1947 | Rope | Charlies Granillo | TV movie |
| The Case of Helvig Delbo | TV special | ||
| Power Without Glory | Cliff | TV movie using cast of stage production | |
| Dancing with Crime | Police Radio Caller | Uncredited | |
| 1948 | Esther Waters | William Latch | First leading role in film |
| Quartet | George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") | ||
| 1949 | Once a Jolly Swagman | Bill Fox | |
| Dear Mr. Prohack | Charles Prohack | ||
| Boys in Brown | Alfie Rawlins | ||
| 1950 | The Blue Lamp | Tom Riley | First box office hit |
| So Long at the Fair | George Hathaway | First film produced by Betty Box | |
| The Woman in Question | R.W. (Bob) Baker | ||
| 1951 | Blackmailed | Stephen Mundy | |
| 1952 | Hunted | Chris Lloyd | |
| Penny Princess | Tony Craig | ||
| The Gentle Gunman | Matt Sullivan | ||
| 1953 | Appointment in London | Wing Commander Tim Mason | |
| Desperate Moment | Simon Van Halder | ||
| 1954 | They Who Dare | Lt. David Graham | |
| Doctor in the House | Dr Simon Sparrow | Bogarde's first film with directorRalph Thomas | |
| The Sleeping Tiger | Frank Clemmons | Bogarde's first film with directorJoseph Losey | |
| For Better, for Worse | Tony Howard | Directed by Val Guest | |
| The Sea Shall Not Have Them | Flight Sgt. MacKay | Bogare's first film with director Lewis Gilbert | |
| 1955 | Simba | Alan Howard | |
| Doctor at Sea | Dr Simon Sparrow | 2nd "doctor" film | |
| Cast a Dark Shadow | Edward "Teddy" Bare | ||
| 1956 | The Spanish Gardener | Jose | |
| 1957 | Ill Met by Moonlight | Maj.Patrick Leigh Fermor a.k.a. Philedem | Directed by Michael Powell |
| Doctor at Large | Dr Simon Sparrow | 3rd "doctor" film | |
| Campbell's Kingdom | Bruce Campbell | ||
| 1958 | A Tale of Two Cities | Sydney Carton | |
| The Wind Cannot Read | Flight Lt Michael Quinn | ||
| The Doctor's Dilemma | Louis Dubedat | First Hollywood movie | |
| 1959 | Libel | Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen | |
| 1960 | The Angel Wore Red | Arturo Carrera | |
| Song Without End | Franz Liszt | Nominated –Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | |
| 1961 | The Singer Not the Song | Anacleto | |
| Victim | Melville Farr | Nominated –BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1962 | H.M.S. Defiant | 1st Lt. Scott-Padget | |
| We Joined the Navy | Dr. Simon Sparrow | Cameo appearance, uncredited | |
| The Password Is Courage | Sergeant MajorCharles Coward | ||
| 1963 | The Mind Benders | Dr. Henry Longman | |
| I Could Go On Singing | David Donne | ||
| Doctor in Distress | Dr Simon Sparrow | Bogarde's 4th "doctor" film[37] | |
| The Servant | Hugo Barrett | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1964 | Hot Enough for June | Nicholas Whistler | |
| King and Country | Capt. Hargreaves | ||
| The High Bright Sun | Major McGuire | Bogarde's last movie with Betty Box and Ralph Thomas[38] | |
| Little Moon of Alban | Kenneth Boyd | ||
| 1965 | Darling | Robert Gold | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1966 | Modesty Blaise | Gabriel | |
| Blithe Spirit | Charles Condomine | ||
| 1967 | Accident | Stephen | Nominated –BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| Our Mother's House | Charlie Hook | ||
| 1968 | Sebastian | Sebastian | |
| The Fixer | Bibikov | ||
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Stephen | |
| Justine | Pursewarden | ||
| The Damned | Frederick Bruckmann | ||
| 1970 | Upon This Rock | Bonnie Prince Charlie | |
| 1971 | Death in Venice | Gustav von Aschenbach | Nominated –BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1973 | Night Flight from Moscow | Philip Boyle | |
| 1974 | The Night Porter | Maximilian Theo Aldorfer | |
| 1975 | Permission to Kill | Alan Curtis | |
| 1977 | Providence | Claude Langham | |
| A Bridge Too Far | Lt. Gen. Frederick 'Boy' Browning | ||
| 1978 | Despair | Hermann Hermann | |
| 1981 | The Patricia Neal Story | Roald Dahl | |
| 1986 | May We Borrow Your Husband? | William Harris | |
| 1988 | The Vision | James Marriner | |
| 1990 | Daddy Nostalgie | Daddy | Final film role |
For several years British film exhibitors voted Bogarde one of the most popular local stars at the box office:[39]
