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This is the second volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, covering the time between his experiences at an army camp at Catterick to his role as van Aschenback in the film "Death in Venice". Since 1947 he has starred in more than 60 films, especially during the 50s and 60s, including "The Night Porter" and "Despair". In more recent years, he has become known as a writer. He has published three other volumes of autobiography, "A Postillion Struck by Lightning", "An Orderly Man" and "Backcloth"; as well as three novels, "A Gentle Occupation", "Voices in the Garden" and "West of Sunset".
As work on Visconti's "Death in Venice" draws to a close, Dirk Bogarde is preparing his house in Provence as a retreat. This third volume of his autobiography also covers the years in which he gave some of his finest, most sensitive acting performances and began his career as a writer, imposing order on a rich and varied life. The other autobiographical volumes are: "A Postillion struck by Lightning", "Snakes and Ladders" and "Backcloth".
Dirk Bogarde's first volume of autobiography, published originally in 1977, traces the first steps of a young actor who went on to achieve worldwide acclaim. It details not only his early stage experiences, but also some evocative scenes from his childhood in Sussex, where his family lived in a cottage in the South Downs. Later came a technical college in Glasgow, an apprenticeship in printing, an art education at Chelsea, and finally a scholarship to the Old Vic - just as war broke out. Other volumes of his autobiography are: "Snakes and Ladders", "An Orderly Man" and "Backcloth".