BFI's Dirk Bogarde: 10 Essential Films

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Two handfuls of the finest films featuring one of Britain’s greatest screen actors, from his early classics to his later career as a go-to star for arthouse directors.

After making a West End theatre debut in 1939 and then serving as a captain during the Second World War, Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde would, under the less intimidating name Dirk Bogarde, go on to become one of Britain’s finest postwar actors. Handsome, talented and ambitious, Bogarde went from being the ‘Idol of the Odeon’ to a respected, if at times difficult, star of more challenging dramas and arthouse epics. A complicated and guarded off-screen figure sometimes seen as cold and cruel, Bogarde was, regardless of this, a commanding and popular onscreen presence. To celebrate what would have been his 94th birthday on 28 March, here are 10 of his finest films.

Neil Mitchell
Updated: 6 June 2018