tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post3644621534882941055..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Dirk Bogarde: The Dark Side of Britain's First Screen Heart-ThrobNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-65872440807890277722015-09-15T11:13:59.942+01:002015-09-15T11:13:59.942+01:00I am reading John Frasers book now its truly wond...I am reading John Frasers book now its truly wonderful.....I would so much like to contact him....His accounts his humour his fresh writing style is both poininant and revealing His bush baby experiences and his insights to the repression of the 1950/ 60 s and beyond of the closet queens is so true and revealing ......HE is a well studied observer and I hope he is happy and still sharing life with in a close and contented partnership of sorts...mine died a decade ago I wrote my dedication in the book "Sorry Darling Its Way Past Time " Not exactly an exalted film career but more low end of variety and health care !!! Would be interesting to read more of Mr Frasers post film and TV life . I realy should have purchased this book a decade ago , but life took its toll now I do not want to put it down ...but it will be revisited <br /><br />Does he have contact details ( Agent or the like ) my email is<br />thomasbunn@hotmail.co.uk<br />Google " Bunny Thomas"<br />Thomas Bunn/ Bunny Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01102928499238541771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-52685978028232862232015-08-30T03:40:39.374+01:002015-08-30T03:40:39.374+01:00Bill Frank said:
A brief footnote: in the late Duc...Bill Frank said:<br />A brief footnote: in the late Duchess of Devonshire's published letters to her lifelong friend Patrick Fermor (title: In Tearing Haste)- he writes to her on 30 July 1992: Just before leaving England I had a message, through Margaret, Janetta's housekeeper, saying she also did for Dirk Bogarde, who lived just round the corner in Cadogan Gardens, and that he'd love a visit, and that he had had a stroke (only physical) and had been knighted. So I did so and see him, nicer than ever, in his bachelor flat right up at the top. His great pal Tony Forward died last year and he feels very hopeless and bereaved, and works like mad at very well-put-together nvels, since retiring from stage and screen.<br />Paddy Fermor, a WWII hero, was played by Dirk Bogarde in the movie Ill Met by Moonlight - Mr Fermor had been the subject of a novel which retold the story of the capture of a high-ranking German officer on the island of Crete during the war - hence the long friendship between the two men.<br />William Franknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-42225779215650784452014-07-13T12:15:55.816+01:002014-07-13T12:15:55.816+01:00Can't agree more with the lady commenting. Thi...Can't agree more with the lady commenting. This article was rubbish, sorry Mr. Clark. Sure you can present Bogarde the way you did, but this doesn't make the picture of him true OR complete. He could be waspish, yes, and he could be snobbish. Funny how someone is portrayed as being snobbish, just because he/she doesn't share the taste of the majority. In that regard I'm a snob too and proud with it - mainstream is getting worse and worse. Bogarde might have been a bit strange, sure, but there's more to him than that, and I hate to see his name being dragged through mud. Your 'journalism' is exactly the type of scribbling which people like Dirk dreaded. Anything to upset and have an article and spread half-truths, blown out of proportion so you have you story. And the people who read and believe them, apparently. You do a lot of damage, but probably you don't care. This is so cheap, I will never understand why people fall for this kind of rubbish. But then again, I'm a snob, right? So please...in future do your homework or DON'T write about people you know nothing about. Okay? Bashing one of Britain's greatest cinema-actors... I mean who knows what you do to the next person who has the misfortune to become your victim. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-15655486097627480192012-09-25T13:29:10.003+01:002012-09-25T13:29:10.003+01:00univergI wrote a long comment but was posted on fa...univergI wrote a long comment but was posted on face book by mistake. I became angry when I read the article, and especially coming from a British citizen who should be fair o his own people. I do not feel the writer was objective. I am like any average person was scared of homosexuals and got to put up with them then tolerate them. I have many dear friends who are homosexuals now. As Lord Aaron said to Bogarde in his letter thanking him for his two movies victim and the servant that help swing the public opinion about The Sexual Offences Bill then Act that was introduced by Lord Aaron. Bogarde in 1961 by making Victim deliberately chattered his matinee ideal image that lasted ten years to make victim which affected legislation that passed in England. He knew he had to pay a price and he did. That took courage. How many people do you know who will do that regardless whether we agree with the issue or not. How many idiots in hollywood would do that. He was very private and did not offend anyone in public with his actions. He also stayed faithful the same person for over forty years. How many movie stars do you know who share this virtue? He served his country during the war. Britain benefitted financially from his movies. About not being international he did not conform to hollywood standards who wanted to marry him off like Rock Hudson. About Finney and M. Kaine please give me a break. Bogarde is the best actor the cinema has ever seen. A real actor not hollywood made actor. I felt the writer was not objective at all and whoever is Mr Foster who is playing a psychiatrist. Bogarde was a great actor, has very strong personality, was an icon and everything his way and paid the price of not becoming Kaine or Finney or Carry grant etc. I never commented on anything before because I have no time between teaching, raising kids and grandkids, but I had to say something. Britainn should be proud of Dirk BogardeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-53736500931809505802009-08-12T10:45:22.700+01:002009-08-12T10:45:22.700+01:00Very interesting article but Bogarde was simply kn...Very interesting article but Bogarde was simply known as "The Idol of the Odeons", and he spent his entire life concealing his sexuality, not revealing it.Yellow Tigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10867661422720916902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-30030006425445710792009-02-18T15:12:00.000+00:002009-02-18T15:12:00.000+00:00I looked at that Harty interview.. There's a long ...I looked at that Harty interview.. There's a long pause, the camera lingering on Bogarde's face; he's looking directly at Russell, he gives a disarming and beautiful smile, looks down, then up, then says "...but I'm still in the shell and you haven't cracked it yet, honey.." Rather different from Neil Clark's version and hardly 'snapping' How different an impression one gains from seeing the original and how circumspect must one be in judging a man through another's eyes!Balalaikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01841714596683233781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-80321737387371770282008-09-26T17:40:00.000+01:002008-09-26T17:40:00.000+01:00I could probably tolerate a bit of snobbery from s...I could probably tolerate a bit of snobbery from someone who can spell 'mediocrity' properly.<BR/><BR/>- questionnaireAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-88255528047850411682008-09-26T17:16:00.000+01:002008-09-26T17:16:00.000+01:00karl- many thanks. hope all's well with you.anonym...karl- many thanks. hope all's well with you.<BR/>anonymous and jolies: many thanks too. very good point about Paul Scott. <BR/>douglas: Yes, it was tragic about Turing.Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-44281433298739090022008-09-23T21:35:00.000+01:002008-09-23T21:35:00.000+01:00As I read your piece, I recall with sadness the li...As I read your piece, I recall with sadness the life and untimely death of Alan Turing, who committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952.<BR/><BR/>The reason that the highest prize is computing is called the A. M. Turing Award is because all scholars of computing work in the shadow of Turing's ideas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-60478170296148212622008-09-23T05:01:00.000+01:002008-09-23T05:01:00.000+01:00A fine article. It reminded me of Paul Scott who, ...A fine article. It reminded me of Paul Scott who, according to his biographer, went one step further than Bogarde and rather than be in public denial about his sexuality, ruthlessly repressed it, married, had children and maintained the lie with alcohol and simmering violence. Highly damaging to his personal life but useful to his art in portraying Ronald Merrick in the Raj Quartet: one of literature's more compelling characterisations of evil ambiguity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-46711125849963878132008-09-22T14:44:00.000+01:002008-09-22T14:44:00.000+01:00Can I just say that has got to be one of the fines...Can I just say that has got to be one of the finest pieces i have ever read about anything and anybody on the internet. The story about the death camps having an impact on him i notice clark stays away from since they is question marks about whether this ever happened. Well done neil ClarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-90968177235173722682008-09-22T12:29:00.000+01:002008-09-22T12:29:00.000+01:00Ach, John Osborne...not Osbourne.Ach, John Osborne...not Osbourne.KNaylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05172872947972286430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-24678462707730572792008-09-22T12:25:00.000+01:002008-09-22T12:25:00.000+01:00Interesting piece. John Osbourne, a contemporary...Interesting piece. <BR/><BR/> John Osbourne, a contemporary of Bogarde's, was even more bitter and misanthropic, though he had a malicious sense of humour too which comes out in his two volume autobiography.<BR/><BR/> Osbourne wasn't a particulary pleasant man in many ways but he had that anger about mediocrity of public and private life which he would have applied perfectly to Tony Blair.<BR/><BR/> it's a pity he died in 1995, two years before Blair came to power.<BR/><BR/> Osbourne valued those whose convictions were sincere and based on a deeply felt experience of life and loathed fly-by-night trendy orthodoxies and hypocritical cant<BR/><BR/> I used to enjoy Osbourne's journalistic pieces for the Daily Mail in the early 1990s.<BR/><BR/> It would be great if you could write a piece about Osbourne too!KNaylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05172872947972286430noreply@blogger.com