Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters

by Unknown

Pavlow, Muriel, 396 &n

  Payne, Humfry, 88n

  Pearson, John: Façades, 185n

  Peckinpah, Sam, 87

  Penguin (publishers) see Viking Penguin

  Percy (film), 70, 90n

  Percy’s Progress (film), 90

  Period of Adjustment, A (DB), 457, 460, 474 &n

  Permission to Kill (film), 104n, 107, 119, 501

  Perry, George (ed.): The Golden Screen: Fifty Years of Films, 366 &n, 369

  Philby, Kim, 80–1

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 345, 479

  Phillips, Arlene, 145n

  Phillips, Leslie, 53

  Phillips, Nicholas, 408

  Phillips, Sian, 407

  ‘Picture Man, The’ (DB; article on father), 292n

  Pigott-Smith, Tim, 277n, 366–7, 407

  Pinewood Studios, 456

  Pink, Susan, 381

  Pinter, Harold, 435; writes script for Accident 29; and Losey, 37; DB reads to Alexis Smith, 94; adapts Proust, 97n, 127; DB defends, 181; relations with DB, 305–6; reputation, 306; behaviour, 329, 435–6; DB praises writing, 417; directing, 418; Penelope Mortimer and, 435–6; Betrayal, 181; The Birthday Party, 38 &n; No Man’s Land, 435n; Old Times, 94 &n, 306

  Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 3

  Pivot, Bernard, 301n

  Plath, Sylvia, 253n

  Plato, 478

  ‘Pleading for the valley of the reaper’ (DB; newspaper article), 411n

  Pleasence, Donald, 204n

  Plon (French publishers), 196

  Plowright, Joan (Lady Olivier), 215, 475

  Plumb, Blossom, 123

  Plus grand musée du monde, Le (TV documentary), 271n, 325 &n

  Point of Departure (play), 76n, 462n

  Pollock, Jackson, 442

  Polo, Richard, 211n

  Pompidou, Claude, 484

  Postillion Struck by Lightning, A (DB): writing, 4–5, 117n; publication and reception, 130–1, 136–7, 141, 143, 149, 154n, 164, 184n, 188–90, 202; success and foreign translations, 296–7; French versions lost, 301; on childhood in Glasgow, 439n, 441

  Potter, Dennis, 468; Blade on the Feather, 204

  Powell, Dilys, 43, 87, 88, 106, 108, 110, 119, 122, 131, 139, 148, 150, 170, 272, 278, 363, 369, 378, 381, 385, 394, 430, 505, 506; correspondence with DB, 5, 9, 43; at Delhi Festival (1974–5), 106; DB writes appreciation on retirement, 131; reviews DB’s Postillion, 149; acquires cat, 151; previews movies for Sunday Times in retirement, 272n; collection of reviews published, 366n; DB lunches with, 406; reviews Caute’s biography of Losey, 461; DB praises, 466; An Affair of the Heart, 279

  Powell, Michael, 334, 385n, 386

  Power, Tyrone, 172

  Pressburger, Emeric, 334

  Priestley, J.B., 44

  Prince, Hal, 130n

  ‘Private Dirk Bogarde, The’ (TV documentary), 9

  Private Eye: attacks Norah Smallwood, 238n

  Probus (clubs), 420

  Procter and Gamble (company), 237n

  Prouse, Derek, 106

  Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past(A la recherche du temps perdu), 38, 79, 97, 128

  Provence: DB invited to write on, 213

  Providence (film), 110, 115n, 120–2, 127–8, 130, 132, 139, 149, 151, 159, 170 &n, 173, 307n, 355

  Public Lending Right, 274n

  ‘Puddings and presents but no Santa Claus’ (DB; newspaper extract), 431n

  Puttnam, David, Baron, 298n, 323, 335n

  Puttnam, Patricia Mary, Lady, 323

  Quayle, Sir Anthony, 39

  Quinn, Anthony, 38

  Rabal, Francisco, 283n, 284

  Rampling, Charlotte: with DB in The NightPorter, 80, 84, 88, 91, 93, 104; physique and qualities, 112–13; marriage to Jarre, 182n, 249n; DB entertains, 249; makes TV documentary on Louvre with DB, 271, 325; DB on first meeting, 355; proposed for Vita Sackville–West’s No Signposts in the Sea, 366; at London reception for Jacques Chirac, 486, 488

  Rank Charm School, 455n

  Rank Organisation: DB works for, 3, 23

  Rattigan, Sir Terence, 102; A Bequest to theNation, 53n, 54

  Réage, Pauline (pseud.): l’Histoire d’O, 98

  Rebecca (proposed film remake), 127n

  Redford, Robert, 113, 121, 127n

  Redgrave, Sir Michael, 73

  Redgrave, Vanessa, 42, 61n, 195, 492n

  Reed International (Reed Audio), 491

  Reed, Oliver, 61n

  Relph, Michael, 310–11

  Remick, Lee, 349n

  Resnais, Alain: relations with DB, 5, 115, 128, 151; views, 29; DB films with, 34, 48, 110–12, 120–2, 128, 130, 132, 140, 149, 159, 308, 435; and Gielgud, 170; and ‘Mon Oncle d’Amérique’, 171; reads DB’s published memoirs, 189, 195; incomprehensibility, 204; at 1980 Cannes Film Festival, 211; DB on, 500

  Rhodes, Zandra, 229

  Rice, Sir Tim, 468 &n

  Richard, Sir Cliff, 478

  Richardson, Keith, 330

  Richardson, Natasha, 396, 399, 419, 424, 492n

  Richardson, Sir Ralph, 36, 435n

  Richardson, Tony, 305, 324

  Rickman, Alan, 418n

  ‘Right to die with dignity, The’ (DB; newspaper article), 411n

  Roberts, Judy see Goodings, Judy Roberts, Rachel, 429n

  Robinson, David, 132, 385n, 386n

  Rocco and His Brothers (film), 32n, 95

  Rock, Phillip: The Passing Bells, 189–91

  Roeg, Nicolas, 127

  Romantic Englishwoman, The (film), 94n, 105n, 109, 117, 500

  Rome, 74, 81–2

  Roper, Lanning, 188

  Rosay, Françoise, 407

  Rosoman, Leonard, 186; The Wave,Amagansett (painting), 179

  Rotunno, Giuseppe, 80

  Roud, Richard, 37

  Roux family, 94, 481

  Royal Geographical Society, 487, 490

  Rushdie, Sir Salman, 259

  Russell, Ken, 61n, 74

  Russell, Leonard, 109n

  Russell, Michael, 204n

  Ryan, Cornelius, 178n

  Ryan, Kathryn Morgan, 178 &n

  Ryan, Maureen, 26

  Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 170

  Sachs, Andrew, 409

  Sackville-West, Vita, 231, 366 &n; NoSignposts in the Sea, 366

  St Andrews University: awards honorary doctorate to DB, 303, 305–6, 311–14, 504, 505

  St John, Earl, 462

  Saki see Munro, H.H.

  Salerno, Enrico Maria, 387

  Sandoe, John (bookshop), 425

  Sansom, William: Proust and His World, 97

  Santos Inocentes, Los (film), 283n

  Sassard, Jacqueline, 58

  Scales, Prunella, 406

  Scargill, Arthur, 281

  Schauberger, Dagmar, 150

  Schiele, Egon, 141

  Schiller, Lawrence (Larry), 223 &n, 233

  Schindler, Oskar, 267, 272

  Schlesinger, John, 36, 51, 60, 110, 113, 128, 194

  Schneider, Romy, 57–9, 62n, 75, 78

  Schulkes, Arnold, 36, 61, 129

  Scofield, Paul, 375n

  Scott, Paul: The Jewel in the Crown, 277 &n

  Sea Shall Not Have Them, The (film), 73n

  Searle, Ellen (later Holt; ‘Lally’): in DB’sPostillion, 117 &n, 124, 136–7, 141, 191, 431n; DB’s money gifts to, 124, 448; and DB’s knighthood, 433

  Sebastian (film), 36

  Secret Ceremony (film), 30, 95

  Selwood, Nerine (née Cox), 250, 357, 360, 500, 501, 502, 503; DB corresponds with, 2

  Senso (film), 95

  Serpent, The (film), 80–1, 96, 107n

  Servadio, Gaia: Luchino Visconti: A Biography, 269–70

  Servant, The (film), 29n, 32, 48n, 72, 95, 105, 285, 305, 311n, 355–6, 456

  Sexual Offences Act (1967), 311n

  Seymour, Jane, 366

  Seyrig, Delphine, 100, 253

  Shaffer, Anthony: Sleuth, 39

  Shaffer, Sir Peter, 39

  Sh
akespeare, Nicholas, 399, 506; as literary editor of Daily Telegraph, 365n

  Shaw, Fiona, 482

  Shaw, George Bernard, 6

  Shaw, Robert, 32, 38n, 41

  Shepherd, Simon, 331n

  Shepherd, William (Bill), 375, 459

  Sherriff, R.C.: Journey’sEnd, 251

  Shinwell, Emanuel, Baron, 306

  Shivas, Mark, 415

  ‘Short Walk from Harrods, A’ (DB; newspaper article), 393n

  Short Walk from Harrods, A (DB), 443 &n, 444–5, 447, 449–50, 452–3, 457, 459–60, 480

  Sica, Vittorio de, 387

  Signoret, Simone, 31, 33, 37, 42, 56, 68, 94, 104, 178, 222, 301, 494; La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était, 184 &n

  Sim, Sheila (Lady Attenborough): in France, 71; photograph used on jacket of An Orderly Man, 245 & n; DB entertains, 321

  Simba (film), 262, 382, 455

  Simmons, Jean, 222, 273, 364, 457–8

  Simon, John, 140

  Sinclair, Andrew: In Love and Anger, 467–8

  Singer Not the Song, The (film), 454–5

  Sitwell family, 185

  Skinner, Ann, 34, 60, 158, 162, 179, 194, 499; correspondence with DB, 5, 7

  Skolimowski, Jerzy, 178

  Sleeping Tiger, The (film), 94n, 285

  Smallwood, Norah, 136, 143, 156, 164, 174, 184, 187, 190, 192, 198, 200, 202, 207, 212, 216, 217, 219, 225, 230, 234, 238, 242, 245, 246, 258, 263, 266, 268, 275, 279, 288, 291, 501, 502, 503, 504; and DB’s writing, 1, 5, 7, 105, 150–1, 156–7, 300, 319, 389, 504; death, 5, 294, 298; relations with DB, 5, 136, 215, 244, 255, 263–4; DB dedicates A Gentle Occupation to, 193; visits DB in France, 209, 238; attacked in Private Eye, 238n; deposed at Chatto, 243; in DB’s An Orderly Man, 245; visits USA, 263n, 265–6; farewell party, 268–9; leaves Chatto, 273; knee operation, 275n

  Smith, Alexis, 94, 194, 506

  Smith, Dodie: Dear Octopus, 132

  Smith, Jean Kennedy, 31 &n

  Snakes and Ladders (DB): working titles, 130 &n, 144 &n, 167n; writing, 172; publication and reception, 176, 178–80, 202; index, 178–9; Peter Hall praises, 184n; French edition, 185n; readership, 189–90; DB records on cassette, 195; and biography of Visconti, 269

  Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 229

  So Long at the Fair (film), 273, 457–8

  Somme, battle of the (1916), 335

  Sondheim, Stephen, 130n, 134

  Song Without End (film), 95n, 168n, 493n

  Spanish Gardener, The (film), 123

  Spark, Dame Muriel: Loitering with Intent, 236, 239

  Spectator, The (journal), 484, 486, 490

  Speer, Albert: Inside the Third Reich, 54

  Spielberg, Steven, 258n

  Sposa bella, La (film), 387

  Sprigge, Elizabeth: Sybil Thorndike Casson, 65n

  Spurling, Hilary: Secrets of a Woman’s Heart, 289n

  Stamp, Terence, 96, 455

  Standing, John (Sir John Leon), 161 &n

  Star Is Born, A (film), 322

  Start the Week (radio programme), 463n

  Steaming (film), 307

  Steegmuller, Francis: Cocteau, 57

  Stella (DB’s housekeeper), 471, 478, 482 &n

  Stephens, Sir Robert, 130

  Stevenson, Juliet, 418n

  Stoppard, Miriam, 154

  Stoppard, Sir Tom, 142, 146, 152, 168; DB meets, 140; film version of Despair, 147, 158, 162, 403; writes narration for The Merry Widow, 472n; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 152n; Travesties, 142 &n

  Straw Dogs (film), 87n

  Stribling, Melissa (Melissa Dearden), 55

  Strick, Joseph, 168n

  Stritch, Elaine, 120

  Stud, The (film), 177

  Summer Story, A (film), 364n

  Sun, The (newspaper), 410n

  Sunday, Bloody Sunday (film), 60

  Sunday in the Country (film), 373–4

  Sunday Telegraph, The, 372n, 379

  Sunday Times, The, 131; industrial dispute, 236 &n

  Sutherland, Donald, 113, 127

  Sutherland, Graham, 229, 417, 466

  Sutherland, Kathleen, 229–30

  Swanson, Gloria, 229

  Sydow, Max von, 107

  Tafler, Sydney, 38n, 39

  Tanitch, Robert: Dirk Bogarde: The CompleteCareer Illustrated, 493 &n

  Tauber, Richard, 154

  Tavernier, Bertrand, 374, 384, 387; correspondence with DB, 5; directs DB, 373–80, 383, 389, 393, 401, 404–5, 408, 411; and success of Daddy Nostalgie at Cannes Festival, 386–7; suggests new film with DB, 430; visits London, 491; Daddy Nostalgie, 372 &n, 373–5

  Taylor, A.J.P., 433

  Taylor, Dame Elizabeth (Richard Burton’s wife), 30n, 68, 130, 286

  Taylor, Jeremy: ‘Holy Dying’, 477

  Telegraph Magazine, 431n

  Thames Television, 267

  Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 235; TheDowning Street Years 1979–90, 452 &n

  That’s Entertainment (film compilation), 109

  Theroux, Paul, 194

  These Foolish Things (film) see Daddy Nostalgie

  This Is Your Life (TV programme), 41

  This Week (TV programme), 424, 427

  Thomas, Ralph, 35, 38, 41, 181, 426

  Thompson, Edward, 64, 500; encourages DB to write, 64, 65n

  Thompson, Emma, 393n

  Thomson, H.A.R. (Bob), 383 &n

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 65

  Thorne, Anthony, 273

  Thulin, Ingrid, 34

  Thynne, Christopher, 376n

  Time of Your Life, The (proposed film), 35n

  Times, The: industrial dispute, 236 &n;DB writes on father for bicentennial (1985), 289n, 292, 296

  Tindle, David, 323

  Todd, Sir Ian, 259–60

  Todd, Richard, 73

  Tollitt, Tina, 6, 231–2

  Tolstoy, Count Nikolai: Victims of Yalta, 175

  Tolusso, Ghigo, 295n

  Tonbridge School, 415

  Topol, Chaim, 109

  Tracy, Spencer, 417

  Tree, Penelope, 31

  Trefusis, Violet, 231, 365

  Trevor–Roper, Hugh (Baron Dacre), 74

  ‘Trick or Treat’ (film project), 120n

  Trintignant, Jean-Louis, 31

  Trollope, Joanna, 468 &n

  Troxler, Anton, 298 &n, 419 &n

  Troxler, Elisabeth, 419

  Truly, Madly, Deeply (TV film), 418 &n

  Turing, Alan, 3

  Tynan, Kathleen, 111, 120, 171, 177, 196, 210, 214, 228, 239, 270, 282, 297, 305, 322, 499, 500, 503; correspondence with DB, 6; article on DB in Vogue, 50–1, 55, 112; friendship with DB, 52, 74, 112; and DB’s recording of favourite music, 85; DB proof-reads for, 176–7; and Kenneth’s death, 214–15; book on Kenneth, 247–8; visits DB in France, 247–8; relations with DB, 466; Agatha, 169, 171 &n, 174, 176–7, 179; The Summer Aeroplane, 112 &n

  Tynan, Kenneth: dress, 52; disbelieves DB’s account of Belsen, 74; onDB’s hesitation over writing, 105; and Mai Zetterling, 112 & n; and French politics, 173; manner, 181; death, 214–15; on Louise Brooks, 229 & n; Kathleen’s book on, 247–8; advises DB on libel question, 431; dislikes DB, 466

  Ullmann, Liv, 110, 306

  Under the Volcano (film), 135, 141, 283, 285, 388

  United States of America: DB’s view of, 133, 144, 504, 507; DB’s book promotion tour, 198; DB films in, 222–4

  University College School, 7

  Updike, John, 1

  ‘Upon This Rock’ (documentary), 36n

  Ure, Mary, 392

  Urquhart, Major-General Robert, 129n

  Ustinov, Sir Peter, 178, 211, 486, 488

  Valli, Alida, 493

  van der Post, Sir Laurens, 281; The Seed and the Sower, 260n

  Variety Club: makes award to DB, 399

  Venice, 35, 38, 41–4; Harry’s Bar, 456

  Verneuil, Henri, 80

  Victim (film), 55n, 310–11, 481–2, 495

  Vidal, Gore, 80; M
yra Breckinridge, 54

  Vidor, Charles, 168n

  Vienna, 106–8

  Viking Penguin (publishers), 273, 275, 336, 366n, 368, 373, 380, 398, 416, 436–7, 445, 460, 474, 482

  Villalobos, Reynaldo, 223

  Vincent the Dutchman (film), 112 &n

  Visconti, Luchino, 45, 50, 55; relations with DB, 5, 79, 264; DB films with, 23, 34, 37, 108, 149, 163; and The Damned, 31–2; and Death in Venice, 34–5, 40–1, 43, 45, 47, 50–1, 87, 102, 143; and DB’s rented house in Venice, 43; upset by Kathleen Tynan’s Vogue article, 50–1, 55, 57n, 112; wins award at Cannes (1971), 57 &n; film of Ludwig of Bavaria, 59; on Proust, 97; in DB’s published memoirs, 172, 178, 195; biographies of, 269; homage event, 299

  Vision, The (TV film), 344n, 349n, 459n

  Visions of Eight – The Strongest (film), 112n

  Vitti, Monica, 100

  Vogue (magazine), 50, 55, 57n, 111–12

  Voices in the Garden (DB; novel): title, 199n; writing, 203, 208, 211–12; published in USA, 215; reception, 232n, 236–9, 241, 254, 270; promotion, 237n; submitted for 1981 Booker Prize, 238n; French translation, 270, 274, 503; publication, 294; broadcast in France, 306; as cassette, 409; film version, 414 &n, 416, 427

  Volontè, Gian Maria, 35

  Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, 8

  Voluntary Euthanasia Society, 411, 419, 427, 447

  Wagner, Robert, 211

  Waite, Terence (Terry): Taken on Trust, 452

  Walker, Alexander, 79, 87, 386

  Wall, Max, 146

  Wallis, Sir Barnes, 73n, 74

  Wallis, Hal, 40

  Walls, Tom, 461

  Wanamaker, Zoë, 366–7

  Warchus, Matthew, 293n

  Warner Brothers, 43, 45, 47, 83, 195

  Warner, David, 120, 130

  Waterhouse, Keith, 9, 335n, 463

  Watson, Dorothy, 294

  Watson, Wallace Steadman, 402; Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 402n

  Waugh, Auberon, 464

  Waugh, Evelyn, 102, 198–9; Diaries 1911–1965, 202

  Wax, Jimmy, 435

  Webster, Daniel, 290

  Weldon, Fay, 291

  Welles, Orson, 36

  Welser-Möst, Franz, 472 &n

  Wenders, Wim, 282

  Wesker, Sir Arnold, 477

  Wessex Films, 428

  West, Samuel, 414n

  West of Sunset (DB; novel), 257, 273, 275n, 282, 302, 319, 328

  Wheeler, Peter, 489n

  White, Patrick: The Eye of the Storm, 88

  Whitehorn, Katharine, 178

  Whitehouse, Mary, 91

  Whiting, John: The Devils, 293, 293 &n

  Whittaker, Christopher, 392

  Wicki, Bernhard, 404

  Wien Film, 119 &n

  Wild Bunch, The (film), 87n

  Wilde, Oscar, 393

  Wildeblood, Peter, 3

  Wilding, Michael, 311