Dirk Bogarde Summary

Talent and creative energy find many forms of expression, especially in the arts. Dirk Bogarde has demonstrated an abundance of both, first as an art student, then as an actor on the stage and in film... Read more

Critical Essay by D.a.n. Jones The title [A Postillion Struck by Lightning] is rather dowdy, for a film-star's memoirs…. But this is a very different sort of book, deliberately avoiding... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Keates [Snakes and Ladders] adheres to the best tradition of autobiography in managing to distract us, by whatever means, from noting the number of times the pronoun [I] is... Read more

Critical Essay by John Mellors In his first novel, A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde draws on his army experience to throw light on a little-known 'peacetime war' in the Dutch East Indi... Read more

Critical Essay by David Wilson [The island setting of A Gentle Occupation] is fictional, but the narrative is based on a chaos of facts which Dirk Bogarde clearly remembers from experience. He has as... Read more