The Knitting Circle: Drama Biography work acting writing ... press cuttings Dirk Bogarde Born 28th. March, 1921 in Hampstead, north London; died 8th. May, 1999, in Chelsea, London. British, film actor and writer. Originally named Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven Van den Bogaerde Height: 5 feet 10 inches. His father, Ulric, who was half-Dutch, started the arts desk at Times and became its art editor. His mother, Margaret Niven, was Scottish, and the daughter of the actor and painter Forrest Niven. She appeared in the Haymarket production of Bunty Pulls The Strings , but her husband insisted that she stop her acting. Dirk Bogarde spent his childhood in Sussex being brought up by his sister, Elizabeth, and his nanny, Lally. This is described in his book A Postillion Struck by Lightning in 1988. He went to the Allen Glen's School in Glasgow. He also went to University College School in London. He went on to study commercial art at Chelsea Polytechnic where he was taught by Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland, but he dropped out of his course. He became an unpromising drama student. He started his career as a scene designer and commercial artist in the 1930s. | |
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