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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With his daring role in Victim, the British star helped to change the gay narrative for ever Watching Victim in 1961, audiences would have been shocked to hear the word “homosexual” – the first time ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Bogarde, who died in 1999, never came out publicly as gay 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, ...