Declassified docs reveal closeted actor Dirk Bogarde was the target of a Russian gay entrapment plot

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 especially to his role in the comedic Doctor film series.

Amidst his fame and acclaim, it was something of an open secret that Bogarde was gay, despite never publicly coming out, and he spent his latter years living with his “business manager” partner Anthony Forwood.

Even though many of his most notable roles had an unmistakably gay sensibility—from neo-noir Victim (the first film to use the word “homosexual”) to the subtextual The Servant to 1971’s Death in Venice, which is all about queer desire—questions around the actor’s sexuality never appeared to impact

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