Dirk Bogarde

...many interpreters who examined thousands of images every day were women, including Winston Churchill's own daughter Sarah. Other famous interpreters also included the renowned actor Dirk Bogarde. The archive is at www.aerial.rcahms.gov.uk

In this article: World War II, Allan Williams, Winston Churchill, Rome, Berlin, and Paris

...is the Leopard Inn. All stained glass, mosaic tiles, decorative mirrors and polished wood, it has in its time served HG Wells, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Arnold Bennett. It is probably most famous, though, as the place where Josiah Wedgwood...

In this article: Joan Walley, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Port Vale, Climate change, and Carbon

...kids, recalling a gaunt, wheelchair-bound Bruce Chatwin, finding a Christmas card from Penelope Fitzgerald or a salacious postcard from Dirk Bogarde stuffed into an old tome these tidbits spice her wide-ranging observations on literature from...

In this article: Howards End, Edith Sitwell, Don Quixote, Literature, King's College, London, Moomin, and Tove Jansson

...backing. With her unerring instinct for the philistine perception that speaks a sort of truth, Dame Edna Everage once referred to Dirk Bogarde's Aschenbach (in the over-ripe Visconti movie) as "a dysfunctional in a deck chair". I suspect that...

In this article: Alan Bennett, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, The History Boys, Andrew Motion, Ian McKellen, Kafka's Dick, National Theatre, and Philip Larkin

...was the actor who hid his or her sexuality, especially when the actor became a bankable star. Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, Dirk Bogarde, and Tallulah Bankhead are just a few of the many stars who kept their sexual orientation secret in...

In this article: Neil Patrick Harris, Dick Sargent, Sheila James Kuehl, Robert Reed, Nancy Kulp, Rock Hudson, and Paul Lynde

...his hero, had only GBP11 at the time. Penguin snapped it up; it was later turned into the 1964 film Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde. Davidson won the first of his Gold Dagger awards, and a prize for Best First Novel of the Year.

In this article: Lionel Davidson, Victor Gollancz, Chelsea Murders, Kolymsky Heights, Chaim Weizmann, London, The Rose of Tibet, Frederick Forsyth, Israel, and Hot Enough for June

...prospect of a Saturday night in Swindon. I suppose the elegant option would be to retreat to some Tuscan villa or Parisian hotel, like Dirk Bogarde or Louise Brooks, and compose his perfectly poisonous memoirs. Or he could fade to gray in...

In this article: Morrissey, David Bowie, Itunes, Oscar Wilde, Stuttering, Smiths, It Was a Very Good Year, and Irish Blood, English Heart

...their own front door Now Dunleavy is leading me down corridors lined with pictures of past Pinewood greats - Kenneth More, Dirk Bogarde, Sid James, Hattie Jacques - to show me the fruits of his inspiration. It's still only at the planning...

In this article: Michael Grade, Pinewood Studios, New Orleans, Hollywood, James Bond, Berlin, New York, and Harry Potter

...that, throughout the Fifties, sex was a subject with which the British were ill at ease. The actor Dirk Bogarde detected this when he told readers of a fan magazine in 1955 about working with Brigitte Bardot, the new sensation from...

In this article: John Lennon, Welfare state, Princess Margaret, Peter Townsend, Penelope Lively, and Max Wall

...reluctant spying trip to Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. The novel was made into a 1964 film, "Hot Enough for June,'' starring Dirk Bogarde. His last novel, "Kolymsky Heights,'' involves an American agent's quest for a secret locked...

In this article: Lionel Davidson, Night of Wenceslas, Kolymsky Heights, Britain, United States, London, Prague, Israel, Hot Enough for June, and World War II