His partner, Forwood—who had both liver cancer and Parkinson’s disease—died in 1988, and after a number of his own health complications, Bogarde died of a heart attack in 1999 at 78.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with late closeted film star Dirk Bogarde in the news, let’s revisit one of his great roles, 1963’s ...

Image Credit: Dirk Bogarde in ‘Hot Enough For June’ via Kate Gabrielle, Flickr The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who became a household name in the 1950s and ’60s thanks ...