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Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999) was an English actor and author. Bogarde was voted as a Top 5 British movie star for seven years in a row (1953 to 1959). His role in Doctor in the House (1954) made him a superstar in England. Bogarde wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism. His IMDb page shows over 71 acting credits from 1930 to 1990. This page will rank Dirk Bogarde movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, videos, games, and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition. This is a request (ok multiple requests) from UMR Hall of Famer Bob.
Dirk Bogarde Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Dirk Bogarde Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Dirk Bogarde movies by his co-stars
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Dirk Bogarde movie received.
- Sort Dirk Bogarde movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts On Dirk Bogarde
- Derek Niven van den Bogaerde was born in West Hampstead, London, England in 1921.
2. Early in his career, Dirk Bogarde was promoted as “The British Rock Hudson“.
3. Dirk Bogarde made his stage debut in 1939, but his acting career was interrupted for seven years by World War II until he was demobilized in September 1946.
4. Dirk Bogarde was the only cast member of A Bridge Too Far (1977) to have actually served at the battles depicted in the film.
5. The day before Dirk Bogarde died was spent with his friend Lauren Bacall. Apparently they had a wonderful time together.
Check out Dirk Bogarde’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Dirk Bogarde Movies Ranked By Critic & Audience Ratings (no box office)
- Our Mother’s House 78.40%
- Quartet (1948) 78.40%
- The Blue Lamp (1950) 75.20%
- The Spanish Gardener (1956) 74.40%
- The Hunted/The Stranger In Between (1952) 74.20%
- Blackmailed (1951) 74.20%
- Desperate Moment (1953) 73.60%
- Intelligence Service/Night Ambush (1957) 72.80%
- The Sleeping Tiger (1954) 72.00%
- Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) 71.00%
- Campbell’s Kingdom (1957) 70.40%
- The Wind Cannot Read (1958) 69.60%
- Simba (1955) 69.60%
- Five Angels On Murder/The Woman In Question (1950) 69.40%
- Doctor At Sea (1955) 67.20%
- Appointment In London/Raiders In The Sky (1952) 67.00%
- Maniacs On Wheels (1949) 67.00%
- The Mind Benders (1963) 66.20%
- The Sea Shall Not Have Then (1954) 66.20%
- Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) 65.40%
- The Gentle Gunman (1952) 64.60%
- Sin Of Esther Waters (1948) 64.60%
- Agent 8 3/4 /Hot Enough for June (1964) 63.80%
- Doctor at Large (1957) 63.80%
- Boys In Brown (1949) 63.80%
- Cocktails in the Kitchen/For Better, For Worse (1954) 61.40%
- Doctor in Distress (1963) 60.60%
- They Who Dare (1954) 59.80%
- Penny Princess (1952) 58.80%
DIRK MOVIES THAT I HAVE SEE – 29 in all which for once puts me in Flora’s league as a “have seen” movie buff
Quartet
The Blue Lamp
Doctor In The House
The Sleeping Tiger
Simba
Doctor At Sea
The Spanish Gardener
Night Ambush-aka ILL Met by Moonlight
Campbell’s Kingdom – another with Sir Stanley Baker Sir Maurice’s mentor and a good friend of Sir Dirk as well.
The Wind Cannot Read
A Tale Of Two Cities
Libel
The Doctor’s Dilemma
Victim
The Password Is Courage
The Servant
Darling
Accident
The Damned
Death In Venice
The Singer Not the Song
Sebastian
The High Bright Sun
Hot Enough for June
The Mind Benders
King and Country
Doctor at Large
Cast a Dark Shadow
Song without End – Sir Dirk’s failed attempt to become a major box office star in US.
Hey Bob…..awesome tally total. Your 29 beats my total by 25….as I have only seen 4 of his movies. I have seen A Bridge Too Far many many times……I have also seen The Night Porter, The High Bright Sun (that movie never got going for me…and then it was over) and Darling. I think you are a “film buff” even if you do not beat Flora in the tally count. Good stuff as always.
HI BIG BOY: I had not previously picked up that you had done a Dirk Bogarde page. Apologies – but my oversight is especially strange because as I think you know Sir Dirk along with Sir Maurice has long been my joint fave Brit actor.
Pleasing comments by The Master for once about one of my idols. However YOU have not faithfully copied your idol’s work on this occasion: Joel correctly referred to Campbell’s KiNGDOM whereas you quote Campbell’s KITCHEN in your opening ‘Joel Hirschhorn’ post below.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA:
(1) Sir Dirk was also a close friend of Judy Garland with whom he made I Could Go on Singing
(2) I may have said before that Sir Dirk was never able to drive because he had a complete lack of co-ordination in that respect. He had to permanently employ a chauffeur but of course he could afford that!
(3) Sir D lived for a long time with the one male partner and when an interviewer asked them how they passed the time together when Sir Dirk wasn’t working he sarcastically replied “Well we don’t sit knitting if that’s what your getting at.” [Rock Hudson had recently confessed to being a keen knitter in an interview.]
Thanks for giving me a credit in your lead-in comments. See also Part 2.
Hey Bob…..this is a work in progress….I was working on it….and accidentally hit the publish button versus the save button. At the time it first went “live” there were more movies in the second “review” section than the table. That bothered me….so I have slowly…been adding movies to the table…..to at least make the table larger than the review section….currently…31 to 29. Missing so many movies, makes me apprehensive in promoting the page.
Good trivia on Dirk Bogarde. Glad you liked the “lead-in”. I fixed the Kitchen…and made it to the Kingdom. Congrats on finding the page…there are usually 3 or 4 pages in the index that have not gotten pushed by me….usually as a back up if I am in a time crunch in the morning.
HI O INDUSTRIOUS ONE: You certainly go to a lot of trouble to hunt down grosses and other information in compiling your lists. Thanks for the Bogarde feedback and explanations; and for the additional comments and information about Dickie and his movies
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Sir Dirk was Britain’s biggest 1950s star and the fact that “have seen” Giants like you and Flora have not seen more of his movies illustrates the problem that British stars have had in breaking through at the US box office.
Olivier and Guinness etc were prestige performers but generally could never compete at the worldwide box office with the likes of The Duke and Al Leach. I think that “Larry” is the only lifelong Brit in AFI’s 25 Greatest male legends Al Leach and The Little Tramp having “crossed the pond” as the saying goes along with the likes of Leslie Townes Hope who was not an AFI Legend but a Great nevertheless. [I am not sure if Chaplin ever took out US citizenship but he was a Hoillywood star anyway and not associated with the British film industry].
I think the problem was that the British film industry didn’t have the money for film production that Hollywood did; nor had it the reach to hype and promote mega stars like Monroe and Brando. A breakthrough in terms of universally popular stars probably came with Sir Sean and Bond and Sir Maurice with the likes of Alfie.
Flora’s 13 Bogarde “have seens” is amazing in the circumstances and she is a true marvel when it comes to churning out long lists of old movies that she has watched. The Cogerson site is lucky to have her.
I can normally compete with her only in relation to my own specific idols; for example I have seen around 35 Brando films but just one Stallone movie!! [Sly does though have his moments with me as I am eating a chocolate bar while typing this post and its brand name is “Rocky” – the sort of energy booster you need for running up and down THOSE steps!]
ADDITIONAL BOGARDE TRIVIA: Sir Dirk’s interests were many and varied. Not only did he act/write/narrate but he apparently got heavily involved in community activities.
For example I once heard an interview in which he revealed that he was currently involved with a charity group that specialised in teaching potty training for youngsters which makes ‘teacher Dirk’ a kind of kindred spirit of yours!
I see that you have been at it again: churning out two new pages at the same time. You are certainly are determined to prove that unlike poor president Gerald Ford YOU CAN “chew gum and walk straight at the same time”!
Hey Bob….finding old box office grosses is still fun to do. It seems like there are some sources for how well a movie did in England, but almost nothing when those English films crossed the pond. I agree Dirk did not make as great as an impact over here like Olivier and Guinness did. Bogarde’s movies are still mostly unknown to me. Two of the ones I have seen are ones I got from my local library….and I got them since you were writing about him….so figured I would check out Sir Dirk in some lead roles. Good stuff as always.
Just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcx43_h2he8 he is so young and the movie is so good
Hey Nancy. Thanks for the link to The Hunted. I will have to check that one out.
Dirk Bogard went so much deeper than the actors of today. He did it in a very organic way. He seemed to understand the essence of acting. So many great performances, I remember the day he died. Good to see him getting some attention these days. A nice find.
Hey Harvey. Great thoughts on Dirk Bogarde. I have vivid memories of the day Cary Grant passed away. I have not seen many of his movies, but have some big fans of his here on the website. Thanks for the kind words about our website.
“Dirk Bogarde has elegance, style, looks and extraordinary talent. It can truthfully be said of him that he never gave a bad performance. Yet the British press was indifferent to his work until Victim (1961). Perhaps some of the lightweight material he did delayed proper recognition. But there are few, if any, who would deny his ability.” …….”Dirk Bogarde remains one of the greatest examples of intelligent acting”. -1983 Rating The Movie Stars
4 Star Dirk Bogard Movie Performances – Rating The Movie Stars
1948’s Quartet
1950’s The Blue Lamp
1950’s So Long At The Fair
1953’s Desperate Moment
1954’s Doctor In The House
1954’s The Sleeping Tiger
1955’s Simba
1955’s Doctor At Sea
1956’s The Spanish Gardener
1957’s Night Ambush
1957’s Campbell’s Kingdom
1958’s The Wind Cannot Read
1958’s The Tale Of Two Cities
1959’s Libel
1959’s The Doctor’s Dilemma
1961’s Victim
1962’s The Password Is Courage
1963’s The Servant
1963’s I Could Go On Singing
1965’s Darling
1967’s Accident
1967’s Our Mother’s House
1968’s The Fixer
1969’s The Damned
1971’s Death In Venice
1977’s Providence
Twenty-six 4 Star Performances…..that is pretty impressive….plus Rating The Movie Stars gave Bogarde high praise in the right….I bet Bob…will be agreeing with the thoughts of Joel and his buddies on this particular subject.