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 ...

Lord Attenborough was an "idiot", Vanessa Redgrave a "ninny" and Sir John Gielgud struggled to understand Shakespeare, according to Sir Dirk Bogarde. The extraordinarily caustic comments by the late ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As well as appearing in more than sixty films, Dirk Bogarde wrote six novels, eight volumes of autobiography and a volume of journalism, and recorded Lyrics for Lovers, an album of spoken word covers ...

The BFI announced that Lady Lee, Sir Christopher Lee’s widow, has donated his photographic archive, to the BFI National Archive.