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    British actor and novelist

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    James David Graham Niven (/ ˈ n ɪ v ən /; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983 [1] [2]) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist.Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films.He received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.. Born in central London to an upper-middle-class family, Niven attended Heatherdown Preparatory School and Stowe School ...

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    David Niven. Actor: Murder by Death. His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military Academy.

  3. Aug 23, 2022 · David Niven's is a name that would nestle in neatly among any of the nation's drama greats. Per Britannica, he was born in March 1910 in London, and would go on to define himself as a classy British gentleman of the big screen. Despite his movie airs and graces, Niven was certainly not without a sense of humor — he appeared in a number of ...

  4. David Niven. Actor: Murder by Death. His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military Academy.

  5. May 18, 2020 · According to David Niven, debonair star of films including Wuthering Heights, Around the World in 80 Days, and Bonjour Tristesse, not all full-service brothels in the golden age of movies were run ...

  6. Jul 25, 2024 · David Niven (born March 1, 1910, London, England—died July 29, 1983, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland) was a 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.

  7. Jul 30, 1983 · He was born James David Graham Niven on March 1, 1910, in Kirriemuir, a market and linen-mill center in the Scottish Highlands. His father, William Edward Graham Niven, was a British officer who ...

  8. James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, 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.

  9. Niven in the 1948 film Enchantment. The British actor David Niven (1910–1983) performed in many genres of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. He was also the author of four books: two works of fiction and two autobiographies. Described by Brian McFarlane, writing for the British Film Institute (BFI), as being "of famously debonair manner", Niven's career spanned from 1932 ...

  10. Host David Niven gets a surprise while introducing Elizabeth Taylor at the 46th Academy Awards. Watch more of the 1974 Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/playli...

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