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 The Servant ...

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 The Servant. Earlier this week, some newly declassified files from ...

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Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians.

Newly declassified MI5 files have revealed that film star Dirk Bogarde had been warned by security services that the KGB had identified him as a “practising homosexual” and he could face being ...

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...