Autobiography comes in two flavors--one, the life of an interesting person, badly written; two, ditto, but written with energy, charm and style. It is to this latter classification that Dirk Bogarde's story of his early life belongs. 
Bogarde was trained as an artist. Indeed, he has a drawing in the collection of the British Museum. But acting was in his blood, and this is the story of how he answered its call. 
"His starring performances in 'A Tale of Two Cities,' 'The Victim,' 'Death in Venice' and 'The Damned' are equalled in this remarkable and brilliant autobiography." (Daily Telegraph)

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Biographies & Memoirs

BOGARDE, Dirk

Arts & Literature

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This second volume of Dirk Bogarde's acclaimed autobiography covers the years from World War II to the making of Death in Venice. These are the spellbinding years in which he transformed himself from a celebrity matinee idol into one of the finest actors of our time.

Snakes & ladders

West of Sunset

Alice Arlington, newly widowed, and Lea Rooke, an attractive childpsychologist, become the passions that threaten to turn British writer Jonathan Poole's Hollywood trip into a life-changing event, in a story about the dark side of Hollywood glitter

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

Snakes And Ladders (Dirk Bogarde's Autobiography)

TRIAD BOOKS

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JERICHO

Contemporary

Voices In The Garden Tv Tie In

Penguin Uk

After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is rewarded with the calm he craves, he is forced to endure the relative evils of dying olive trees and the rampaging mistral. We are exposed to the struggles and intricacies in trying to change the very fabric of one's existence. In this pursuit of the tranquil, Bogarde manages to portray the simplest of issues in the most delicate and humane way. This third volume also covers the years in which Dirk Bogarde gave some of his finest acting performances and began his career as a gifted writer, imposing order on a rich and varied life.
First published in 1983, this is Volume Three of his best-selling autobiography.

An Orderly Man (Dirk Bogarde's Autobiography)

Penguin Group

Sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Seen through the eyes of a 10-year old in the late 1930s, this novel recaptures an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness with its sounds and scents intact, whilst the world beyond went to war.

Great Meadow

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A SHORT WALK FROM HARRODS

Dirk Bogarde's most recent memoir recalls the wartime years when he served as a captain in photographic intelligence, and the postwar period when he first embarked on his film career, along with vignettes of his experiences in Hollywood, Italy, Provence and finally his return to England. There are recollections of the horrors and terror of enemy attact, the bitter ironical humour of the battlefield, despair and hopelesnes, and more palatable terror of stage-fright for a young actor "arriving" at the movies.

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