Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess".
Publicity portrait, 1964
Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen collecting their bread ration after their liberation, April 1945
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen. April 19, 1945
Bogarde with Jane Birkin, co-star in Daddy Nostalgie at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival
Doctor in the House (film)
Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and James Robertson Justice. It was produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.
Original British cinema poster