Dirk Bogarde: Glamour Boy, Blacklisted, Forgotten. Then Everything Changed | Parkinson on BBC

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Dirk Bogarde decided he wanted to be a film star at the age of eight, reading Film Weekly at his mother's hairdresser in Golders Green. After six and a half years of war and no rent money, he decided the movies were a very good idea indeed. He has not looked back since, though he is careful about which side of his face he shows the camera. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, Bogarde talks about being processed like cheese by the Rank Organisation for seventeen years, about girls trying to cut his hair off with scissors in the street, and about the precise moment he knew it was over: not when he made Victim, but when he admitted to being forty. It was the grey temples and the age that lost him the fans, he says. Bill Haley took the rest. After Victim, the film about homosexuality that nobody else would touch, there was eighteen months of absolutely nothing. No work, no letters, no fanfare. Just the wind, as his mother would say, up your kilt. He says it was worth hanging arou

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