Editing Dirk Bogarde (section)

===Other later career roles===
In the 1960s and 1970s Bogarde played opposite many renowned stars. ''[[The Angel Wore Red]]'' (1960) saw Bogarde playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer [[Ava Gardner]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. The same year, in ''[[Song Without End]]'' he portrayed Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist [[Franz Liszt]], a film initially directed by [[Charles Vidor]] (who died during shooting) and completed by Bogarde's friend [[George Cukor]], which was the actor's only foray into Hollywood. The campy ''[[The Singer Not the Song]]'' (1961) starred Bogarde as a Mexican bandit alongside [[John Mills]] as a priest.

In ''[[H.M.S. Defiant]]'' (or ''Damn the Defiant!'') (1962), he played the sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir [[Alec Guinness]]; ''[[I Could Go On Singing]]'' (1963), co-starring [[Judy Garland]] in her final screen role; ''[[Hot Enough for June]]'' (or ''Agent 8¾'') (1964), a [[James Bond]]-type spy spoof co-starring [[Robert Morley]]; ''[[Modesty Blaise (1966 film)|Modesty Blaise]]'' (1966), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite [[Monica Vitti]] and [[Terence Stamp]] and directed by Joseph Losey; ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]'' (1968), based on [[Bernard Malamud]]'s novel, co-starring [[Alan Bates]]; ''[[Sebastian (1968 film)|Sebastian]]'' (1968), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with [[Susannah York]], a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for [[British Intelligence]], also co-starring Sir John Gielgud and [[Lilli Palmer]], co-produced by Michael Powell; ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'' (1969), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir [[Laurence Olivier]] and directed by [[Richard Attenborough]]; ''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine]]'' (1969), directed by George Cukor; ''[[Night Flight from Moscow|Le Serpent]]'' (1973), co-starring [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Yul Brynner]];

''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' (1977), also starring [[Sean Connery]], and again directed by Richard Attenborough, saw Bogarde give a controversial performance as Lieutenant General [[Frederick Browning|Frederick 'Boy' Browning]]. Bogarde claimed he had known General Browning from his time on Field Marshal Montgomery's staff during the war, and took issue with the largely negative portrayal of the general whom he played in ''A Bridge Too Far''. Browning's widow, author Dame [[Daphne du Maurier]], ferociously attacked his characterisation and "the resultant establishment fallout, much of it [[homophobic]], wrongly convinced [Bogarde] that the newly ennobled Sir Richard [Attenborough] had deliberately contrived to scupper his own chance of a knighthood."<ref>Hawkins and Attenborough 2009, pp. 152–153.</ref> While several of his fellow actors were veterans, Bogarde was the only cast member to have served at the battles being depicted in the film, having entered Brussels the day after its liberation, and worked on the planning of Operation Market Garden.<ref name="Military"/>