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JC
INDEX
Page numbers in bold indicate the first page of a letter to a correspondent (and extracts in ‘Dirk’s Out-takes’ on pages 499–507)
Writings by Dirk Bogarde (DB) appear under title; works by others under author’s name
Accident (film), 29, 31–2, 39n, 80, 253, 277
Ackerley, Joe Randolph: My Father and Myself, 100
Ackland, Joss, 414n
Acropole (French publishers), 494
Acton, Sir Harold: More Memoirs of an Aesthete, 57 &n
Adam’s Farm, Sussex, 25, 27, 204n
Adams, John Bodkin, 52
After Noon Plus (TV show), 217n
Agate, James, 181
Agutter, Jenny, 177, 181, 194
Ahmet (Arab gardener), 57, 111
Aimée, Anouk, 31, 414, 416
Aitken, Maria, 263
Albin Michel (French publishers), 494
Aldiss, Brian: A Soldier Erect, 57
Alexander, Clare, 485 &n, 495
Alexandra, Princess, 190–1, 299, 472, 501
All About Eve (film), 77
All That Jazz (film), 211
Allan Glen’s School, Glasgow, 439n
Allen, Woody, 194
Allied Film Makers, 310n
Altaras, Jonathan, 386
Ambazac: Château de Mont-Méry, 125n
Amis, Martin, 1
Amsterdam, 130, 212
Anderson, Michael, 73n
Anderson, Robert, 233
Andersson, Bibi, 141
Andresen, Björn, 48n
Andrews, Anthony, 366
Angel, Daniel M., 48
Angel Wore Red, The (film), 387n
Anne, Princess Royal, 362
Another Country (film), 282
Anouilh, Jean: Point of Departure, 112
Antonino (gardener), 26, 28
Apocalypse Now (film), 194
Apostrophes (French TV programme), 301
Archer, Jeffrey, Baron, 505; Exclusive, 375n
Arena (TV documentary of DB), 9
Arkin, Alan, 121
Arnaud, Yvonne, 85, 369n
Arne, Peter, 126
Arnhem, battle of (1944), 113, 121, 128–9
Arran, Arthur Kattendyke Archibald Gore, 8th Earl of (‘Boofy’), 310–11
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy, 277n
Ashton, Sir Frederick, 236
Asquith, Anthony (‘Puffin’), 32, 80, 454n, 463
Asquith, Lady Cynthia: diaries, 481 &n
Assassination of Trotsky, The (film), 49n, 56, 61, 62n, 68, 75, 78
At Long Last (film), 109n
Atkins, Dame Eileen, 363, 375, 376, 404, 459; films with DB, 349n; on tour in Archer’s Exclusive, 375n; in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, 405n
Attenborough, Charlotte, 331 &n, 505
Attenborough, Sir David, 229
Attenborough, Richard, Baron: Arnhem film (A Bridge Too Far), 9, 113, 125n, 129, 131, 158–9; DB entertains in France, 60, 258, 321; occupies neighbouring house in France, 71, 187, 288; DB records favourite music for, 84; Brock’s view of, 166–7; founds Beaver Films, 187n; and DB’s A Gentle Occupation, 195; films Gandhi, 195, 197, 258; and DB’s cassette readings, 196; house burgled, 245n; criticised by Rushdie, 259 &n; at 1985 Cannes Film Festival, 307; film of A Chorus Line, 321; arranges BAFTA award to DB, 362, 363 & n; honours, 433n
Attenborough, Sheila, Lady see Sim, Sheila Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl, 277
Aubert, Brigitte, 324
Aubert, Jean-Pierre, 179 &n, 324
Auden, W.H.: ‘Tell Me The Truth About Love’, 488
Australia, 212
Bacall, Lauren, 141, 370
Backcloth (DB): writing, 261 &n, 318n, 320, 505; publication, 328, 336, 340n, 342–3, 351; recorded version, 412, 425n; structure, 457
Bacon, Victoria, 295
BACUP (now Cancerbackup), 419 &n, 447
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts): Awards, (1981), 229; inaugural Tribute Award to DB (1988), 362–4, 369
Bagnold, Enid (Lady Jones): Autobiography, 279
Bailey, David, 31, 236
Baillie, Dame Isobel, 168
Baker, Sir Stanley, 32, 42, 126, 295, 406n, 433n
Balcon, Jill, 388, 430
Balcon, Sir Michael, 430, 433n
Ballhaus, Michael, 402
Bandol, France, 374, 377, 380
Banks, Evangeline, 195n
Barber, Lynn, 465
Bardot, Brigitte, 100, 355 &n, 391
Barnes, Julian, 287, 359; as TV critic, 273 & n, 275; DB dines with, 456n, 457; Metroland, 274 &n Barron, Zelda, 179
Barrymore, Ethel, 108
Bates, Sir Alan, 35, 54, 58, 96, 181, 431
Bath, Alexander Thynne, 7th Marquess of, 471 &n Bavaria Films, 152, 154
Baxter, Keith, 39
‘Bay of the Little Lost Sheep, The’ (DB; article), 194n, 197n
Beaton, Cecil: Self Portrait with Friends, 219
Beatty, Warren, 29
Beck, Reginald, 162
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 292
Beel House, 55n
Bell, Rosalind see Bowlby, Rosalind
Belloc, Hilaire, 488
Ben-Hur (1910 film), 80
Bendo (dog), 188, 190, 192, 238, 242, 244, 246, 258, 276, 304–5, 328–9; death, 353
Benn, Tony (Anthony Wedgwood Benn), 235
Bennett & Druet (architects), 259n
Bennett, Alan: Writing Home, 474 &n Bennett, Arnold: Buried Alive, 252 &n, 253, 256
Bennett, Caroline (Penelope Mortimer’s daughter), 254n
Bennett, John, 254n
Bennett, Margot, 83n
Berg, A. Scott: Goldwyn: A Biography, 373n
Berger, Helmut, 34, 59, 94
Bergman, Ingmar, 110
Bergman, Ingrid, 83, 194, 466
Bernard, Chris, 338n
Bertil, Prince of Sweden, 190
Besch, Joseph, 41n
Betti, Ugo: Summertime (play), 184n
Betts, Sally: as DB’s typist, 7, 121, 267, 319, 321, 401
Beyond Good and Evil (film), 95n
Bilbow, Tony, 262n
Birkin, Andrew, 230, 253, 258 &n
Birkin, David, 397n
Birkin, Jane, 372n, 375–6, 378–9, 384–6, 397n, 399, 473
Birthday Party, The (film), 38
Bissett, Jacqueline, 283
Black, Sir James, 313
Black, Karen, 282
Blackburn, Julia: Daisy Bates in the Desert, 467 &n
Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 184
Bl
ake, Fanny, 27, 445, 482
Blakemore, Michael: Next Season, 363
Bland, Tony, 427n
Bloom, Claire, 83n
Blue Lamp, The (film), 55n, 356
Blunt, Anthony, 186n
Boatwright, Alice Lee, 210 &n, 212, 307, 470
Bogaerde, Alice Van den (Gareth’s daughter), 409; telephones DB, 353
Bogaerde, Brock Van den (Gareth’s son), 144, 332, 370, 500, 505; stays with DB in France, 114, 116–17, 163–8, 316, 318; sickness, 133; enrols at Dance Centre, London, 145n; attends Berlitz language school in Cannes, 162–3, 165n, 333; in USA, 173–4; as associate producer of dramatisation of Graham Greene’s May We Borrow Your Husband?, 316n, 331–4; helps DB settle into Queen Anne House, 353; visits DB in Cadogan Gardens, 370, 391, 411; son, 390; and DB’s wish to have ashes scattered in France, 410; at Daphne Fielding’s birthday lunch, 471; DB dictates late letters to, 496
Bogaerde, Elizabeth Van den (DB’s sister) see Goodings, (Margaret) Elizabeth
Bogaerde, Gareth Van den (DB’s brother), 165, 353, 433; reconciliation with DB, 114; moves to Chicago, 133–4, 163; and mother’s death and funeral, 208; DB sees little of, 319–20; in DB’s autobiographies, 319; helps DB after stroke, 352; visits DB in London, 438
Bogaerde, Jacqueline Van den (Rupert’s first wife), 313, 352–3, 451
Bogaerde, Kim Van den (Brock’s wife), 505; DB sends seeds to, 316; visits DB in Kensington, 353
Bogaerde, Leo Van den (Brock’s son), 390
Bogaerde, Lucilla Van den (Gareth’s wife), 133, 140, 165, 311, 353, 500; DB sees little of, 319; visits DB, 438
Bogaerde, Margaret Van den (DB’s mother): visits DB at Clermont, 46–7, 78; and husband’s funeral, 81; marriage and children, 86; in nursing home, 86, 88–9, 118; and publication of DB’s Postillion, 141; DB visits in England, 178, 196–7, 206; death, 206, 208–9; in DB’s memoirs, 235; destroys records and photographs of husband, 289; behaviour, 440; DB’s attitude to, 500
Bogaerde, Moses Van den (DB’s grandnephew), 390
Bogaerde, Rupert Van den (Gareth’s son), 355, 507; in DB’s autobiography, 319; visits DB, 353; and DB’s wish to have ashes scattered in France, 410; wife’s mental breakdown and disappearance, 450–1; Daybreak into Darkness (by ‘Rupert Bogarde’), 451n
Bogaerde, Ulric Gontron Jules Van den (DB’s father): in France with DB, 46–7, 78, 123; death, 80–2, 118; and DB’s Postillion, 138; in DB’s memoirs, 235; DB writes on for Times bicentennial, 289, 292, 296; retirement presentations from Times, 292–3; pencil portrait of DB, 315, 352; painting of Great Meadow, 434; dislikes Murrays in Glasgow, 440; dislikes new journalists, 465
Bogaerde, Ulric Van den (Gareth/Lucilla’s son), 390; boyhood, 142; visits DB, 353
Bogarde, Sir Dirk: as writer, 1–7, 105–6, 117, 121, 135, 150–1, 157–8, 168, 174–6, 181, 183, 187, 189, 194, 197, 199–200, 211–12, 231, 238, 239, 255, 272, 298, 302, 306–8, 318, 319, 322, 336, 339, 475, 482–3, 494–5, 501, 502; style and spelling, 2, 7, 500; sexuality, 3, 410, 413, 428; resides on Continent, 4, 23, 135–6; reading, 7–8, 26, 54, 57, 100, 164–5, 202, 204, 207, 236, 276–7; political incorrectness, 8; life in Italy, 23–8; pet dogs, 24, 53–4, 60, 64, 71, 77, 85, 90, 145, 170, 185–6, 188, 238, 244, 246, 304, 328–9, 353; hepatitis, 29n; gardening, 31, 49, 89, 108, 151, 174, 187, 200, 207–8, 258–9, 264–5, 268, 276, 287, 400–1; earnings, 53; dental problems, 56, 178, 373, 375, 391; gives up smoking, 56; plans to write memoir, 64; drinking, 83, 448; records favourite music for Capital Radio, 84–5; visits to London, 88–9, 178, 196–7, 226, 228, 242, 249, 256, 257, 259, 266, 275, 303, 306, 319, 325; appearances on Russell Harty’s TV show, 104n, 105, 118, 136; suffers from flu and abscess, 104–5; military service, 150 & n; employs voice coach, 169; diet, 175; cassette recordings of books, 195 &n, 206n; bronchitis, 196; dress, 203, 226; pestered by Bromley correspondent, 216; receives hate-tape from England, 217–18; returns to screen acting, 220–6, 373–80, 383–4, 389, 393, 404–5; paintings and drawings, 225, 315n, 320–1; buys gun as protection, 246; French honours, 249 & n, 253, 272, 484; receives fan mail for books, 255–6; given award at Cannes Film Festival, 260; presents TV documentary from Louvre, 265, 271, 325; as President of Jury at Cannes Film Festival (1984), 272, 281–3, 289–90; acquires Patricia Kavanagh as new literary agent, 273; judges Mail on Sunday literary competition, 291–2; Hélène Bordes writes study of, 296–7; on first name, 301; honorary doctorate from St Andrews, 302–3, 305–6, 311–14, 504–5; pencil portrait by father, 315; non-driving, 316, 325, 327, 505; Tindle portrait of, 323; awarded British Film Institute Fellowship, 339; leaves Clermont, 341–3, 353; financial concerns, 345; rents house in Chelsea, 349; buys house in Duke’s Lane, Kensington, 351; puts on weight, 351, 376; suffers stroke, 352, 354, 373, 400, 486; and Tony’s death, 358–60, 362, 505; sells Queen Anne House, 359–61; moves to flat in Cadogan Gardens, 361; inaugural Tribute Award from BAFTA, 362 & n-4; sells papers to University of Boston, 362; book reviewing for Telegraph, 365, 372–3, 415n, 420, 425, 430–1, 442, 467; medication, 366; learns to cook, 368, 370, 398, 411–12; stands in for David Jacobs’ radio music programme, 368 & n; disgruntlement with England, 373–4, 460, 488, 493; conducts master classes, 379–80, 382, 391, 394; on Desert Island Discs, 381; physiotherapy on leg, 381 & n; supports euthanasia, 381, 411–12, 419–20, 424n, 427, 447; in Cannes for screening of Daddy Nostalgie, 384–6; feels loss of creativity, 389–90; French present retrospective of films, 391; honoured at Guildhall, 394; pays for Anne Leon’s private medical treatment, 395; Variety Club award, 399; gives farewell party for Sybil Burton, 405–6; on effect of ageing, 407–8; narrates Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga for BBC, 409; autobiographical TV programme, 410–11, 430, 432; religious scepticism, 415–16; views and campaigning in later years, 417–21; roles in later years, 418; knighthood, 431, 433, 437; childhood in Glasgow, 439–40; solo readings and talks, 457–9, 469, 474; shingles, 467, 469, 473–4; locked out of flat, 470–1; gives narration for The Merry Widow, 472 & n; heart problem, 473–6; bursts vein in leg, 478; poetry readings, 488–9; operation (angioplasty), 489, 492, 494, 495; suffers severe stroke (1996), 495–6; death, 497; out-takes, 499–507; on hate-and love-objects, 507
Bogdanovich, Peter, 109, 128
Bolt, Robert, 283n, 298n
Boluda, Eduardo and Antonia, 23–6, 28, 31, 33, 38, 45–7, 68, 235
Bonham Carter, Helena, 349n, 366, 370, 406, 475n
Booksellers Association, 452–3
Bordes, Hélène (‘the Plank’), 296, 300, 302, 307, 311, 324, 329, 334, 338, 340, 341, 349, 350, 352, 356, 357, 358, 361, 377, 379, 411, 436, 504, 505, 506, 507; correspondence with DB, 5–6, 487; writes study of DB’s autobiographical writings, 296–7, 300; pestered by correspondent, 340, 377
Boston, University of: acquires DB’s papers, 362, 404
Bounty, The (film), 283
Bourdain, Michel, 491
Bowie, David, 260
Bowlby, Nicholas, 230
Bowlby, Romilly, 419n
Bowlby, Rosalind (née Bell), 230n, 314
Box, Betty, 35, 38, 41, 96, 181, 455
Box, Sydney, 455 &n
Bragg, Melvyn, Baron, 291, 463, 468
Branagh, Kenneth, 393n, 475
Brecht, Bertolt: The Life of Galileo, 29n, 80, 109
Breen, Joseph: US Production Code, 273
Bridge Too Far, A (film), 9, 113, 121, 125n, 128–9, 149, 158–9, 164n
Brien, Alan, 132n
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): homage to DB, 126; see also individual programmes British Comedy Society, 483n
British Film Institute: awards Fellowship to DB, 339
Bromley (Kent): correspondent pesters DB, 216
Bronson, Charles, 121
Brook, Peter, 241
Brookner, Anita: Hotel du Lac, 306; A Private View, 467 &n
Brooks, Louise, 229
Brooks, Richard, 222 &n
Brougham, Henry, Baron, 299
Browne, Coral, 465
Browning, Lieut.-General
Sir Frederick (‘Boy’), 9, 128, 158, 164, 431
Brynner, Yul, 81
Buchet, Martine: La Colombe d’Or at Saint Paul de Vence, 481 &n
Buckle, Richard, 219n Bullitt (film), 222
Burchill, Julie, 465
Burgess, Anthony, 1, 194; Earthly Powers, 236, 502
Buried Alive (cancelled TV film), 252n, 256
Burke, Alfred, 160n
Burstyn, Ellen, 110–11, 120, 123, 127, 130
Burton, Richard, 32, 40, 53, 62n, 78, 455
Byrne, John, 9
Cabrol, Gilles, 316
Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, 361, 493–4
Caine, Sir Michael, 96n, 121, 129, 172
Cairncross, James, 160
Cal (film), 283
Calder-Marshall, Anna, 112–13
Callil, Carmen, 238n
Campbell, Judy, 397n
Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 6
Campbell, Patrick (Lord Glenavy), 244
Camus, Albert: l’Etranger, 40
Canby, Vincent, 140
Candy (dog), 29, 103
Cannes, 56; Film Festival, 57n, 92, 98, 109–10, 177–8, 183, 194, 209–10, 258, 272, 281–3, 289–90, 307, 334–5, 384–6, 502
Capital Radio, 84n, 196
Capote, Truman, 373
Capucine (born Germaine Lefebvre), 73, 178, 408–9, 495
Cardinale, Claudia, 197
Cariou, Len, 130n
Caroline, Princess of Monaco, 240
Carr, Audrey, 315
Carr, Christine, 315n
Carrington, Dora, 373
Carson, Hunter, 282, 463n
Cast a Dark Shadow (film), 476
Cau, Jean: ‘Les Anglais “homos”’, 410n
Caute, David: Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, 461, 493
Cavani, Liliana, 29n, 80, 82, 84, 87–8, 93, 95, 104, 108–9, 151, 195
Chabrier, Hortense, 274, 494
Chalk Garden, The (proposed film), 370
Chamberlain, Neville, 251
Chamberlain, Richard, 61n
Chamberlin, Powell & Bon (architects), 259n
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’): diaries, 481
Chaplin, Sir Charles, 270, 433
Charles, Prince of Wales, 32n, 44, 158, 168, 234n, 475
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film), 233n