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David Niven Biography

in full James David Graham Niven

(1909 - 1983)

Related Works

Films
1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade
1938 The Dawn Patrol

1939 Bachelor Mother
1939 Wuthering Heights
1939 Raffles
1942 The First of the Few
1944 The Way Ahead
1946 A Matter of Life and Death
1947 The Bishop's Wife
1948 Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948 Enchantment
1950 The Elusive Pimpernel
1950 Happy Go Lovely
1951 Soldiers Three
1953 The Moon is Blue
1953 The Love Lottery
1954 Happy Ever After
1954 Carrington VC
1956 Around the World in 80 Days
1956 The Birds and the Bees
1956 The Silken Affair
1957 The Little Hut
1957 Oh Men! Oh Women!
1957 Bonjour Tristesse
1957 My Man Godfrey
1958 Separate Tables
1959 Ask Any Girl
1960 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1961 The Guns of Navarone
1961 The Best of Enemies
1962 Guns of Darkness
1963 55 Days at Peking
1964 The Pink Panther
1964 Bedtime Story
1965 Lady L
1965 Where the Spies Are
1967 Eye of the Devil
1967 Casino Royale
1968 The Extraordinary Seaman
1968 Prudence and the Pill
1968 The Impossible Years
1968 Before Winter Comes
1969 The Brain
1970 The Statue
1972 King, Queen, Knave
1974 Vampira
1974 Paper Tiger
1976 No Deposit, No Return
1976 Murder by Death
1977 Candleshoe
1978 Death on the Nile
1979 Escape to Athena
1980 Rough Cut
1980 The Sea Wolves
1982 Trail of the Pink Panther
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther
Autobiography
1971 The Moon's A Balloon
1975 Bring on the Empty Horses

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(born March 1, 1909, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scot.—died July 29, 1983, Château-d'Oex, Switz.) British stage and motion-picture actor who personified dapper charm.

Born to a longtime military family, Niven attended Sandhurst Military Academy. He made his way to Hollywood in the mid-1930s and began performing as an extra. His first major roles were in Dawn Patrol (1938) and Wuthering Heights (1939). He rapidly became known as a steady, reliable actor who usually specialized in light comedy.Niven served as an officer in the British army's commando unit during World War II, and following the war he returned to films. Though known for his sure touch with light comedy, he also proved to be a substantial dramatic actor, winning an Academy Award for his role in Separate Tables (1958). Among his best-known films are The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Pink Panther (1964), and Death on the Nile (1978). He also appeared on stage and on two television series. He published a novel, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly (1981), and two autobiographical volumes, The Moon's a Balloon (1971) and Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).Niven performed in movies until the year of his death, even though he suffered in his later life from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also called Lou Gehrig's disease). His last film was The Curse of the Pink Panther (1983).