Talk:Dirk Bogarde

message: I think it'd be better if there was more information about the story or reception of each film rather than just listing actors and directors. -- SteveCrook 18:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film career 

message: I have done that in the past but the efforts have been shot down.  The standard for Wikipedia seems to be info regarding a film should be on a WP page for the film itself.  Same with biographical info on an actor should be on a WP page for the actor and not on a film page.  In the scheme of keeping conformity that makes sense.  Philbertgray 19:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Response

message: :Image:OL painting Dirk Bogarde at his Amersham home.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:OL painting Dirk Bogarde at his Amersham home.JPG

message: I can find various sources that refer to his "repeated denials" of being homosexual -  - but haven't tracked down where he was asked directly about it and his actual words of denial are quoted.  Does anyone know of such a source?  --  JackofOz (talk) 21:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, that's one, assuming 92.11's memory is correct (although his/her memory isn't citable).  Any more?  --  JackofOz (talk) 00:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: His reported denials of homosexuality

message: The attempt to appropriate Bogarde's biography for gay advocacy is not only presumptuous but not in the sprit of Wikipedia, which is about articles, not long-winded advocacy.  The article is like a fan essay, filled with POV and unsupported opinion.  Why has someone stuck a LGBT announcement at top of this page?  It's obvious the man didn't want to be out.  Why not leave it that way?  He was an actor, not some gay icon.  If the article were cleaned up there would no doubt be someone with an emotional investment to revert it back to the present mess.  Too bad, but that's the problem with Wikipedia. —J M Rice (talk) 05:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always considered that being an actor involved being paid to pretend to be something you're not, rather than something you are. By this argument, Roddy McDowall was really an ape and Bert Lahr really a lion. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 16:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Fan and Essay tags  

message: I have replaced his born name given at the very start of the article by his stage name (with the "Sir"), as being not only reasonable to me as an enquirer but more importantly as common practice - refer to other Wikipedia articles on actors, for example his friend Lauren Bacall.  I see no reason to deviate from this practice in this case, though I can understand the temptation to do so as he was born with a fascinating set of names.  I added his born name in the appropriate place, and about his first stage name and its change to Dirk Bogarde.
P0mbal (talk) 12:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  His name 

message: Well in this particular case anyway.  The 'citation needed' that follows "Bogarde was considered for a screen version of Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), to be directed by Anthony Asquith" is unnecessary.  The citation appears at the end of the next sentence.  I would have tried removing it myself, but I'm not sure what the protocol regarding removing citations requests is.--213.208.117.47 (talk) 12:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation not needed 

message: "Upon his death his shares died to Brock van der Bogaerde"
I presume this is a typo, but what is the correct reading?
Paul Magnussen (talk) 19:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that. It originally said "Upon his death his shares passed on to..." "Passed on" is an unacceptable euphemism for "died", and some overzealous editor "fixed" it. I'll unfix it.   Will Beback  talk   19:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo? 

message: If anything Bogarde was bisexual, he was attracted to women as well as to men. Is there a need to engage in bisexual erasure?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.40.25.131 (talk) 09:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When the subject of the article himself has not self-identified as having a particular orientation, there is an element of "original research" at best or guesswork at worst in editors recording and categorising subjects as gay. I would also question the usefulness of such guesswork in the context of the article. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 08:20, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. The logical extension of this, is that we have to include Heterosexual as an orientation in every article otherwise! I have often wondered if sexual orientation has ANY place in an encyclopaedia, unless it is a sole/major part of the history (Quentin Crisp or Oscar Wilde for instance). Perhaps we should add whether someone was left or right-handed, or wore glasses or preferred brunettes etc etc. Manxwoman (talk) 12:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading-between-the-lines, for the answer to all this speculation one would have need to have asked Capucine, but she too is now dead, having committed suicide in 1990.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.106 (talk) 10:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

text: He's asexual now, pending his ghost or diary saying otherwise. Guesswork is a grave Wikipedian sin, and guessing too furiously at a public figure's private life makes the guesser look like a bit of a nosy pervert (in my opinion). InedibleHulk (talk) 21:32, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Homosexual? 

message: He is mentioned, but there is no explanation of the relationship. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 08:21, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Dirk's nephew. (92.7.17.183 (talk) 19:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is "Brock van der Bogaerde"? 

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