Television

Although his first professional engagement after returning form the war was in a BBC production of Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, Dirk largely eschewed, and frequently derided, television. Nevertheless one of his finest performances in any medium was for the small screen – as Roald Dahl in The Patricia Neal Story. And it was a BBC production, The Vision, which offered some work with a fine cast after circumstances compelled him to leave his beloved Provence.

Surprisingly, given his input on the scripts for many of his feature films, Dirk wrote only one full-length screenplay, an adaptation for Yorkshire Television of Graham Greene’s May We Borrow Your Husband? One of Dirk’s six novels was filmed: Voices in the Garden, a Franco-British production for TF1 and the BBC, with a script by Lee Langley and directed by Pierre Boutron.

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