03-28-2011, 03:50 PM
Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999)
In her eulogy for Sir Dirk Bogarde, Glenda Jackson called him Britain's "first home-grown film star." Often dubbed "the British Rock Hudson"--both for his matinee-idol good looks during the 1950s and his discreet homosexuality--his film career spanned five decades and seventy films.
I am celebrating his birthday by watching Death in Venice (1971), in which he played Aschenbach, a dying composer who becomes obsessed with a beautiful boy.
In her eulogy for Sir Dirk Bogarde, Glenda Jackson called him Britain's "first home-grown film star." Often dubbed "the British Rock Hudson"--both for his matinee-idol good looks during the 1950s and his discreet homosexuality--his film career spanned five decades and seventy films.
I am celebrating his birthday by watching Death in Venice (1971), in which he played Aschenbach, a dying composer who becomes obsessed with a beautiful boy.
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