Apr 17, 2021 · For the first half of his career, across comedies and war films, Bogarde was a cinematic figure of heterosexual desire. And yet with Victim he embraced the risks to his career posed by playing a gay man. He must also have known the …

Mar 23, 2021 · The obvious danger was that Bogarde was gay and living with his partner Anthony 'Tote' Forwood, as he would until Forwood died in 1988. "This was a way of getting out a message" says...

Dirk Bogarde is generally considered to have been gay, although he denied it during his lifetime (gay sex was against the law for much of his acting career). He never married, unlike several gay Hollywood actors who undertook marriages of convenience.

Jan 18, 2025 · Miles and Craig do a good job as the female antagonists and catalysts to the actual explicit sexual dynamics, but it’s James Fox, and in particular Dirk Bogarde who truly shine as two men who...

Jul 20, 2021 · Bogarde was openly homosexual as was Visconti, who said his male lovers included Italian director Franco Zeffirelli and Umberto II, the last King of Italy. He was 63 when he made Death In Venice...

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess". [2]

Feb 13, 2021 · Bogarde publicly denied that he was gay, although later in life he did reveal a long-term relationship with manager, Anthony Forwood.

Jan 14, 2025 · Actor Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” sting by the KGB, newly-declassified files reveal today.

Jan 14, 2025 · Newly declassified MI5 files have revealed that film star Dirk Bogarde had been warned by security services that the KGB had identified him as a “practising homosexual” and he could face being...

Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. [2] . The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, [3] it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in …