David Niven
Gender: Male
Born: 1st March 1910
Died: 29th July 1983
Nationality: England, United Kingdom
TV programs: Four Star Playhouse, The Rogues, The David Niven Show, Burke's Law, The Dick Powell Show, Alcoa Theatre
Movies: A Matter of Life and Death, Around the World in Eighty Days, Carrington V.C., Curse of the Pink Panther, Eye of the Devil, Murder by Death, The Bishop's Wife, The Elusive Pimpernel, The First of the Few, The Pink Panther, The Sea Wolves, Trail of the Pink Panther, Wuthering Heights, No Deposit, No Return, Death on the Nile, Thank You, Jeeves!, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Prudence and the Pill, The Toast of New Orleans, The Little Hut, The Statue, Happy Anniversary, Eternally Yours, The Way Ahead, Rough Cut, The Moon Is Blue, Bachelor Mother, My Man Godfrey, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Birds and the Bees, Bonjour tristesse, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Appointment with Venus, Escape to Athena, Bedtime Story, The Guns of Navarone, Paper Tiger, 55 Days at Peking, Casino Royale, Happy Go Lovely, Candleshoe, Vampira, The Dawn Patrol, Enchantment, Raffles, Separate Tables, Guns of Darkness, Beloved Enemy, Ask Any Girl, King, Queen, Knave, The King's Thief, The Real Glory, Where the Spies Are, A Kiss for Corliss, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, , Susan Slade, Dodsworth, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Lady Says No, The Other Love, A Kiss in the Dark, Better Late Than Never, Before Winter Comes, The Best of Enemies, Le Cerveau, Conquered City, Bonnie Prince Charlie, , Rose-Marie, Soldiers Three, Bonds Are Forever, Man's Fate
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther. He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables.
Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was gazetted a Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry. Having developed an interest in acting, he left the Highland Light Infantry, travelled to Hollywood and had several minor roles in film. He first appeared as an extra in the British film There Goes the Bride (1932). From there, he hired an agent and had several small parts in films from 1933, 1934 and 1935, including a non-speaking part in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty. This brought him to wider attention within the film industry and he was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Niven returned to England, and rejoined the army and was recommissioned as a lieutenant.
Upon his demobilization, he resumed his acting career and, despite his brief film appearances before the war, he was
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