“ Are you ever homesick ? I am an Ex-Patriot for an England that is gone”. I wonder what he would be thinking about England now in 2021 ?! Such a gorgeous man. I loved/love everything about him: His handsome looks, the way he talked, his voice, especially loved his laugh. Yep -- he was the whole package.
@ukrandr11 ай бұрын
It's a never ending pleasure to happen upon a nugget of pure gold such as this. Eloquence, style, integrity and talent defined Dirk Bogarde
@ferkara82233 жыл бұрын
He was one of the best actors of all the times.
@mikejohnson2638 Жыл бұрын
lol
@davidjohn54024 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to have met him ,even for 10 minutes,, such an interesting, intelligent, great actor.. The servant,, springs to mind..one of his best...
@stevenlangdon-griffiths2933 жыл бұрын
What a simply marvellous interview. He was a famous person and yet he could be the nice gentleman from down the road.
@dianespanpinato889011 ай бұрын
What a grace to be so honest BRAVO
@annakoroneos39597 жыл бұрын
He was a very talented actor.I appreciate, that he is honest,he is not trying to be sympathetic to the people as so many famous people are doing today,appearing themselves to be like saints,when inside them,who knows what they really think.The point is not,if someone agrees or not with his beliefs,but his courage to express his own ideas,even if we don't like them.I have missed that in our days,very much.
@Carly8Corday6 жыл бұрын
But he is angelic without trying. Sweetheart of a beautiful guy.
@shetlandbudgie26119 ай бұрын
I think it’s the ability to respectfully express contrary beliefs and not have your head bitten off.
@Patis.Vargas.8 жыл бұрын
My my, he is delicious and was/is a wonderful actor and writer, I love him to pieces, he just makes me melt. Thank you so much for sharing this. :D
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
Yes. I agree. Patrick McGoohan had/has the same effect on me.
@anythingbootneck5 жыл бұрын
If England was bad in 1981, just imagine what Dirk would say about it now!
@connoroleary5914 жыл бұрын
He was right, London was dirty and decayed in the 60's and 70's. It is a much finer and cleaner city since then. Indeed he sold his house in France and returned to the UK and died in London.
@jenniferjones1883 жыл бұрын
Totally agree.
@AnnabelleJARankin3 жыл бұрын
@@connoroleary591 London was not 'dirty and decayed' in the 60s and 70s - you have been watching too many black and white film clips - there were parts still being rebuilt after the war in the 50s and 60s but it was by and large a very elegant city. England DID disappear in the early 80s - I remember the change in attitudes and the changes of the streets because I was away in the USA for a couple of years and came back to a different mood. DB is talking about before the second world war as better - I wasn't around then!
@treasurehunteruk97182 жыл бұрын
What would he say about the mess France is in????? Those Yellow Vest riots they had EVERY WEEKEND, with fire bombs and graffiti everywhere. London was NEVER as bad as France, not to mention the coast with all the refugees getting on boats, every day ........... in their own little tent city.
@goldenultra2 жыл бұрын
Politically the 80's was not fun. Nor was I a fan of that time. Then the 80's ended and so did the poll tax, second worst British tax - second to only the Victorian window tax. Day light robbery?
@williamneumyer71474 жыл бұрын
That wonderful honesty! In a world of mendacity, that man called a spade a spade.
@kmvenezia43377 жыл бұрын
SPOT ON DIRK! Man with integrity.
@AlongtheFarClimbDown8433 жыл бұрын
Bogarde had a minor stroke in November 1987, while Forwood was dying of liver cancer and Parkinson's disease. In September 1996, he underwent angioplasty to unblock arteries leading to his heart and had a massive stroke following the operation.[18] He was paralysed on one side of his body, which affected his speech. After the stroke he used a wheelchair. He then completed the final volume of his autobiography, which covered the stroke's effects, and published an edition of his collected journalism, mainly from The Daily Telegraph. He spent some time with his friend Lauren Bacall the day before he died at his home in London from a pulmonary embolism on 8 May 1999, age 78. His ashes were scattered at his former estate in Grasse, Southern France.[19]
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
So depressing that his life ended this way. Beautiful man he was.
@larahensinghlyc36418 жыл бұрын
Words can't express how much I love this guy. Really. Thanks for uploading, whoever did this, did a great job.
@Patis.Vargas.8 жыл бұрын
+Lara Hensinghlyc That makes two of us. :-)
@sandrastone70198 жыл бұрын
+Patricia Vargas make it three.
@mckavitt8 жыл бұрын
+Sandra Stone Make it four.
@sjp46697 жыл бұрын
Five! I met him once.
@paulgrahamedwardspencer51617 жыл бұрын
I have all his films on DVD my favorite actor of all time .
@markwright70216 жыл бұрын
After reading his book 'Short Walk From Harrods' and how it all ended for him, this breaks your heart
@lilybond64853 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. I have to get that book. Thanks for mentioning it.
@alangiles2763 Жыл бұрын
@@lilybond6485 His own end was even worse. He had two strokes and for the last year or so of his life he had no use of his left side, was housebound, and in a wheelchair and needed 24 hour nursing. He died on May 8th 1999, and his final days must have been torture for him. "Short Walk From Harrords" deals with him comng back to the UK after Tony Forwood's Parkinson's got very advanced in 1987. A very melnchololy book, please be warned, but written with his usual grace and style.
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
@Alan Giles: Oh - that is so depressing. I had no idea he had 2 strokes. He always looked like the picture of health to me. Life is so strange. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, how wealthy you are, how kind you are, how much you help people, etc if you don’t have your health - everything else is almost meaningless. To think he also had to watch his beloved partner go through what he did, just so sad.
@sphericalempirical93593 жыл бұрын
I’ve just watched this, 17/01/21, and I can completely understand his view. I’m English and felt just the same and moved away to Spain 2008. A patriot, no doubt, but I just had to leave as it’s just NOT England anymore.
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
I so regret not taking a trip to England decades ago.
@sphericalempirical9359 Жыл бұрын
@@lilybond6485 ,.... Lily, you’d have Loved it.
@Kentcommentator8 жыл бұрын
A wonderful actor, fascinating man. Loved all his autobiographies.
@S7EVE_P5 жыл бұрын
I think Britain has continued to get worse...we've had the best times.
@sarahdixon60113 жыл бұрын
It's up to us
@akumar73662 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to listen to Dirk , to think this is over 40 years ago , the themes are so currant .
@treborob Жыл бұрын
CurrEnt....currAnt is a dried grape.... sorry
@simpaticaism4 жыл бұрын
My father was born into poverty in London in 1902, he joined the navy to get away from the situation as many men did , he lived through two world wars and then saw thing improve in Britain for the working class and the very poor, by the late 1970s , my father would say , no matter what I have lived through I now know I have seen the best of Britain . I myself now know he was correct and that Thatcher and those who have followed her have dismantled Britain and continue to do so . I live in Europe and have done so now for over thirty years.
@martinreynolds17 жыл бұрын
Fantastic actor and a fascinating human being!
@virgorising73882 жыл бұрын
He's awfully right about television and if he could see how it's used today I think he would go out of his mind. He died at the right time. My parents were born 3 years before Dirk and they lived to 2009. The greatest generation.
@nainoswad27255 жыл бұрын
Love Dirk..and his acting and writing...A Postillion Struck By The Truth.
@MrJohnnywonny Жыл бұрын
The epitome of class, refinement, erudition, and gentlemanliness.
@friendlier4 ай бұрын
If you can find it, I very much recommend his book "A Short Walk from Harrods", which, title aside, is a wonderful memoir of his years in this house.
@eileensims87745 жыл бұрын
I have always loved Dirk and I always will Xxxxx ❤
@marysmyth82883 жыл бұрын
To my mind this wonderful sophisticated intelligent man having experienced the War Clearly made his decision to have a private life , I feel so humble to listen to his voice Of sheer honesty, I am glad he made a lot of his own personal dreams of seclusion come true and enjoyed an almost lifetime with his beloved partner an that he stayed close to his sister I really didn’t know of his life besides being an actor, I feel so sad 😞 that he has passed He was truly remarkable (. R.I.P. )
@treasurehunteruk97182 жыл бұрын
Sheer honesty? He lied for DECADES about being gay. and never had the guts to admit to it.
@fritula62003 жыл бұрын
I have a son with this same ideal as dirk. What he is talking about a lifestyle that he would want maintained, slow living. Dirk has this belief of a "purity" !
@clairieannie13 жыл бұрын
His opinion of film making sounds exactly like Johnny Depp. He has said that after the filming of a movie he considers what happens to it after that "none of his business". They both liked the process of creating as a group but not what makes it marketable after.
@poopypants8143 жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing...you can not take your eyes off him .
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
I never could. Everything about him. Such an elegant man. - and he had the most enjoyable laugh.
@scotnick593 жыл бұрын
A beautiful man inside and out
@PeterPete4 жыл бұрын
i can understand why he left england - that malaise just gets worse as we get older and yet nobody does anything about it bar cover it all up!!!
@shane61155 ай бұрын
Honesty is refreshing
@lekunberriko13 жыл бұрын
One of the best actors ever.
@lidijabasanovic97793 жыл бұрын
Smart and genuine, gentleman-like
@bertibear13002 жыл бұрын
My parents had an awful life up to the war, poverty in the 20-30’s.They were destroyed by 55 yrs old, hard work.Dad died in 1981 and mum in 2001 aged 89.Dirk had a very narrow view of England .But now in 2021 it is really awful, terrrifying and vile country so I know how he feels.
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
I hate myself for not taking my dream trip to England years ago. : (
@ArnoldVeeman6 жыл бұрын
but selling the product was making a lot of money... but apart from that - what a wonderful clip from the entire interview. Thanks for sharing!
@leightonbate7516 Жыл бұрын
An honest gentleman and a fantastic actor who was much appreciated abroad,he never really went the showbiz American route and was all the better for it,This must be about the time he was playing Roald Dahl opposite another British acting great Glenda Jackson,What he said resonates with me in 2023.
@aliciabalchin4559 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful man and actor. Im a huge fan.
@justsayin3972 жыл бұрын
Beautiful intelligent man ….. a wonderful actor and an equally great writer.
@veromaestro51942 жыл бұрын
what a charming man!!
@richtomes3 жыл бұрын
One minute in to the clip, DB is using a long thin cane which he waves in front of him as they walk. As they go through a doorway, he seems to knock it against the door, presumeably to check whether the door is closed or not - did he have eyesight problems ?
@rachelthompson84753 жыл бұрын
An incredible Actor,spot on, loved Darling, The Servant, honest humble autobiographies, fascinating calming to listen to, stunning to look at. At times seemed pompous hiding a warmth underneath after war etc and a need to be alone as an artist. Stylish, cultured,where has this gone. Is private but seemed originally bisexual from writings, became platonic with Forwood,then celibate to avoid publicity at that time.
@brendasmithson3395 Жыл бұрын
Sounds a nice natured man. We must except his Lifestyle in this Day and age the World as changed. We have open views now and he would be excepted of how he wants to live. He had a Love of someone and that all that counts.❤️🇦🇺❤️
@margaritatomasfernandez43063 жыл бұрын
Magnífico actor R.I.P. From Mallorca 🇪🇸
@thespiancaine3 жыл бұрын
Great Actor and honest.
@MrDavey20108 ай бұрын
He was prickly when being interviewed as he was constantly on his guard about his undisclosed homosexuality.
@carolking63554 жыл бұрын
The whole world is a worse place now.
@scotnick593 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately true.
@olcraigsen2 жыл бұрын
But soon to get better..... Jesus is coming again ,don't ever forget that...
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
-- and now 2 years later it’s worse and will continue to get worse. Jesus was already here and nothing has changed.
@DeepScreenAnalysis Жыл бұрын
The world was always terrible.
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
@TGA: The thing is - when I was growing up -- sheltered - I was really not aware of what goes on in this world. Now that I am older and have observed the current world and what has happened in the past - I agree with you. Human beings never learn and things are only going to get worse - sad to say. Just my opinion.
@NikoHL Жыл бұрын
Dirk was so right to move to France.. Such an elegant, warm soul. Wonderful actor..
@redjacc75813 жыл бұрын
simply brilliant.
@lilybond64853 жыл бұрын
I knew I should have taken a trip to London in the 70s. It is truly a very big regret.
@TheGrimhilde7 жыл бұрын
no second part?
@Themanwhocameback28 жыл бұрын
A phony veneer, but his beautiful soul keeps seeping through.
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
“I’m an English Patriot for an England that is gone”. and it’s not coming back.
@markryley76523 жыл бұрын
Always liked Dirk and after watching this I like him more. A man from a bygone era sadly.
@geoffreygreen50378 ай бұрын
Dirk was a great actor with he was so private in life
@sarahjones-jf4pr3 жыл бұрын
You are not selfish just know how awful most people can be most of the time,and want a piece of your own life with standards that are acceptable to your self.
@michaelmouse40024 ай бұрын
I’m suprised Thames TV didn’t have the courtesy of crediting who the interviewer was. I’d love to know her name.
@rupertbloomsbury97896 жыл бұрын
A true gentleman and indubitably correct on the vulgarity of entertainment. In the 1950s they had Dirk Bogarde. In 2010s we have foreigners like Jimmy Kimmel and Kardashians.
@Carly8Corday6 жыл бұрын
Rupert, you should say no to kardashian. If only you could! Hey, I know who you can like, watch and support if you're in U.K., not a foreigner, the fine actor and handsome doll who played Dracula Untold!
@Carly8Corday6 жыл бұрын
Luke! Evans!!!
@michelez7154 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with foreigners? Dislike the Kardashians and Kimmel if you think they're rubbish, but don't dislike them just because they're foreigners!
@stephendavis60667 ай бұрын
Kimmel is ok. He has some integrity...Kardash more for Murdoc uk
@georginan4703 Жыл бұрын
Credit to Elaine Grand - a sensitive interviewer.
@ayeletadam40865 жыл бұрын
i like this man he doesnt lie to himself
@paulreed4803 жыл бұрын
Puts me in the mind of Rupert Spira
@brucemarsico66 жыл бұрын
Always a great actor.....I don't know all of his films but I never fail to miss 'Darling' when it's on tele. Once there were fine performers....now it's mostly shit and noise and rubbishand demanding adulations......
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
-- and The Servant.
@LazyAssWins4 жыл бұрын
"woke" in an era of England that has only worsened
@annakker60157 жыл бұрын
Can you blame him for NOT talking about being gay ,lately the world thank goodness has changed and people accept it more but not in his days
@treasurehunteruk97182 жыл бұрын
It was made legal in 1967 and he NEVER admitted to it. He died over thirty years later and still never had the guts to fess up. He didn't want to ruin his career, as his looks were important and so many women fancied him, and also he would have had to admit he had LIED for decades. Not only gay but a liar, so he never came out and admitted to it, even when too old to care. Rock Hudson was another one. Always denied it, as it would have ruined his career when he was young.
@hollowmale2 жыл бұрын
@@treasurehunteruk9718 if he doesn't describe himself as "gay" or "homosexual", then how else do you think would he describe himself?
@treasurehunteruk97182 жыл бұрын
@@hollowmale Heterosexual or bisexual, I suppose.
@hollowmale2 жыл бұрын
@@treasurehunteruk9718 How would coming out benefit a British actor, retired or not, in the 1990s? After coming out, Jaye Davidson quit acting after Stargate, feeling that gay niche would want a manly-looking gay guy. Besides Ian McKellen, have those openly gay actors gained more access and offers in exactly 1990s?
@hollowmale2 жыл бұрын
@@treasurehunteruk9718 BTW, from what I read, Alec Guinness was also closeted AND had been married to his wife with a son until his 2000 death. But then I could be wrong
@thyshaupt10 ай бұрын
he is the ONLY one who could be The Night Porter
@lilybond6485 Жыл бұрын
“My plan was my own survival”. Well, I guess that I have something in common with him. We had the same plan. --- and as I am sitting here watching -- listening to this video - thinking -- that we will never see this beautiful, elegant man alive again - and a thought - is your spirit alive somewhere -- anywhere ? -- I glance up and see one of my favorite shirts that I brought home from the dry cleaners -- that I have been resistant to donating - and it is the exact same shirt that he is wearing. I think that I’ll just hang on to it for a while. I should hear The Twilight Zone music about now.
@servabo_fidem14492 жыл бұрын
Where is the rest of the interview?
@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist Жыл бұрын
10:35 effortlessly slips into a working -class accent :)
@alexmay17547 жыл бұрын
France is now a mess of overly strong trade unions and a culture of malaise.... Dirk Bogarde reminds me of a gentler, happier time...
@arricammarques19556 жыл бұрын
Yes, when gentility, and intelligence were revered, respected. Can't blame him for exiled in France, by choice.
@michelez7154 жыл бұрын
Living in France is a hundred times better than living in Brexit Britain.
@hollowmale2 жыл бұрын
@2:39 She said "homesick", not... well, you know...
@paulgrahamedwardspencer51617 жыл бұрын
He was engaged to a actress before he was famous they broke up because they never saw each other .
@sarahdixon60113 жыл бұрын
Was that the reason??
@treasurehunteruk97182 жыл бұрын
Might have been just for show purposes, like Rock Hudson, and Elton John, who both married women to save face.
@zoeymckeown3194 Жыл бұрын
He was gay, he was with Anthony Forwood from 1940 until Forwood died in 1988. The women were just beards.
@mikejohnson2638 Жыл бұрын
He's so camp.
@mckavitt8 жыл бұрын
I live in France & it is filthy & there is a gigantic racial, cultural malaise, due to French & Arab hostility.
@davidjames96265 жыл бұрын
Well it certainly is a divide between different experiences as in my experience I find the UK far dirtier than here in France..
@michelez7154 жыл бұрын
Possibly large French cities are dirty, like most large cities around the world, but otherwise France is not only clean, but very beautiful, too. Depends where you live, I guess. I can only say that I have seen NO "gigantic racial, cultural malaise" whatsoever.
@anonymousr1918 Жыл бұрын
Is there in avignon?
@dekubaner8 жыл бұрын
pardon my cinematographic ignorance, but i only know him by "the night porter"....i love the movie indeed. he seems to have some gay mannerisms, BUT i might wrong.
@mckavitt8 жыл бұрын
You are not wrong.
@inkyguy6 жыл бұрын
“Gay” mannerism? Yes, he was gay, but men come in all kinds of packages with all sorts of personalities, traits and manners. Are they gay, effeminate, European or merely English? I don’t discount that there are stereotypical gay qualities, but I think a lot of it comes from boys who are taught and given the models of hypermaculinity and subtly and not very subtly told not to act “that way.”
@Carly8Corday6 жыл бұрын
dekubaner, no no, you're just seeing a Brit. Don't be confused. (I'm only trying to be funny, and succeeding to me! Your comment was kidding too, I am convinced.)
@23malaise3 жыл бұрын
Night Porter is adorable. Dirk had the lead role in a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film of a Nabokov novel adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard: "Despair." The real masterwork showcase of his acting is "Death in Venice," directed by Count Luschino Visconti.
@DW-hv1dn Жыл бұрын
In the 1950s and 60s he was a massive star in the UK.
@johnryman13662 жыл бұрын
THe person asking questions is a 4th grade teacher? Or, formerly a 4th grade teacher? AND London was really dirt in the 80's. Liter everywhere, over flowing garbage cans, if any at all .
@teeniebeenie87744 жыл бұрын
pity he hid his gayness/longterm lover his whole life...
@SarahJones-wy5us4 жыл бұрын
Pompous,above question , in denial , twists the truth , seems to have a chip on his shoulder,complex man very complex.
@christinahall25874 жыл бұрын
Sarah Jones Sally Betts, the lady who typed out his manuscripts, corrected his spelling and punctuation, said that Dirk came across as pompous and affected in interviews but in reality he wasn’t that way at all.
@zoeymckeown3194 Жыл бұрын
It's a great shame he found it necessary to deny the intimate relationship he had with his lover and partner Anthony Forwood from 1940 until Forwood's death in 1988. Homosexual relations were legalized in UK in 1967 so Bogarde had plenty of time to acknowledge his debt to Forwood and honour their long relationship. He was a great pretender.
@23malaise3 жыл бұрын
Foreshadowing Morrissey malaise Ltd.
@patrickjacquiot90732 жыл бұрын
Je le croyais Hollandais.
@royfr81366 жыл бұрын
Low volume
@NewRootsHairUK7 жыл бұрын
He's very intolerant. But an enjoyable interview.
@rscottlogan94714 жыл бұрын
Chester Fields Hahaha
@christianmonturanoii6539 Жыл бұрын
Cool bro he looked a little like James dean
@docm272 жыл бұрын
I pity his self-imposed closeted life.
@publicmail24 жыл бұрын
A bit of a drama queen.
@SarahJones-wy5us4 жыл бұрын
AD Electronic Teardowns Yes absolutely.
@jayneroberts53543 жыл бұрын
I used to like him,but after this interview I can't help but what a unmitigated snob he is.