David Niven (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983), was an English actor who achieved a distinction of profits inside each the British and the Hollywood film industry.

Biography
He was natural James David Graham Niven within London, England, the son of William Edward Graham Niven & French/British Henrietta Julia de Gacher, world health organization was innate within Wales. He was known as David for his birth on St. David's Day. His father died when you took a Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and his mother remarried Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. When attending Stowe as a boy Niven trained at a Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which gave him the "officer and gentleman" bearing that was to exist as his trademark. He served for 2 years inside Malta with the Highland Light Infantry. Niven typically claimed that he was natural inside Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, which he believed sounded more romanticistic than London.

Arriving withwithin Hollywood in a period of the early Thirties, he number one worked as an additional in westerns, then experienced a hike-nonspeaking a portion in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. He so landed an extended term contract as a supporting streaming video player by owning independent filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn which firmly established his career and allowed him to get to leading human status inside numbers of films like a RKO comedy Bachelor Mother (1939) with Ginger Rogers.

When you took World War II he served in the British army, rising to the rank of colonel in the British Commandos and landing at Normandy. He did, nevertheless, consent to play within 2 films when you took a War, each of heavy propaganda value: The First of the Few (1942) and The Way Ahead (1944).

He resumed his career fallowing a war by having films like Around the World in Eighty Days (as Phileas Fogg), The Guns of Navarone, The Pink Panther and as Sir James Bond in the unofficial series spoof Casino Royale. He won an Academy Award for his performance in Separate Tables (1958). Late within life, he gained critical acclamation for his memoirs of his acting career, ''The Moon's The Balloon (1971) & Bring On the Empty Horses'' (1975).

Around 1940, Niven married Primula Susan Rollo (1918-1946), the blue-blooded girl of the British pilot; it got deuce sons, David Jr. & Jamie. She died at age Xxviii of a fractured skull & brain lacerations, fallowing inadvertently falling down the flight of stone steps when you took the hide-&-search person at the house of Tyrone Power; she had erroneously opened the door & stepped in, apparently thinking it was the closet. She died of these day late.

Niven's 2nd married woman, whom he married around 1948, x years when it met, was Hjordis Paulinthe Tersmeden (née Genberg, 1921-1997), a divorced Swedish manikin & thwarted actress. It experienced 2 adoptive girl, Kristin & Fiona, one of whom has hanker been rumored to become Niven's toddler by an additional fashion model, Mona Gunnarson. A marriage wwhen when turbulent as Niven's last marriage experienced been happy. Foiled from either an acting career, Hjordis Niven began sustaining public affairs with more men & before long became an alcoholic. Bitter, estranged, & plagued by depression, she showed higher drunk at Niven's funeral, when getting been convinced to attend by personal friend Rainier III of Monaco.

Niven died within Switzerland in 1983 of Motor neurone disease at the age of 73.

Quotations
"It really is amazing. Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games? It's like being Peter Pan" -- David Niven "I don't think his acting ever quite achieved the brilliance or the polish of his dinner-party conversations." -- John Mortimer "The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping... and showing his shortcomings." David Niven, commenting on the streaker who crossed a stage when he was hosting the Academy Awards in 1974. His remarks appeared to exist as off-a-cuff, however were, as a matter of fact, prepared advance.

Filmography
There Goes the Bride (1932) Cleopatra (1934) Without Regret (1935) Barbary Coast (1935) A Feather in Her Hat (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Splendor (1935) Rose-Marie (1936) Palm Springs (1936) Dodsworth (1936) Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Beloved Enemy (1936) We Have Our Moments (1937) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Dinner at the Ritz (1937) ''Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Four Men and a Prayer (1938) Three Blind Mice (1938) The Dawn Patrol (1938) Wuthering Heights (1939) Bachelor Mother (1939) The Real Glory (1939) Eternally Yours (1939) Raffles (1940) The First of the Few (1942) The Way Ahead (1944) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - (also referred to as Staircase to Heaven) Magnificent Doll (1946) The Other Love (1947) The Perfect Marriage (1947) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) Enchantment (1948) A Kiss in the Dark (1949) A Kiss for Corliss (1949) The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) The Toast of New Orleans (1950) Soldiers Three (1951) Happy Go Lovely (1951) Appointment with Venus (1951) The Lady Says No (1952) The Moon Is Blue (1953) The Love Lottery (1954) Happy Ever After (1954) Carrington V.C. (1955) The King's Thief (1955) The Birds and the Bees (1956) Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) The Little Hut (1957) My Man Godfrey (1957) The Silken Affair (1957) Glamorous Hollywood (1958) (short subject) Bonjour tristesse (1958) Separate Tables (1958) Ask Any Girl (1959) Happy Anniversary (1959) Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Shortest Day (1962) (unconfirmed role) The Conquered City (1962) The Best of Enemies (1962) The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (Cameo) Guns of Darkness (1962) 55 Days at Peking (1963) The Pink Panther (1963) Bedtime Story (1964) Where the Spies Are (1965) Lady L (1965) All Eyes On Sharon Tate (1967) (short subject) Casino Royale (1967) Eye of the Devil (1967) Prudence and the Pill (1968) The Impossible Years (1968) The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) The Brain (1969) Before Winter Comes (1969) The Statue (1971) King, Queen, Knave (1972) Vampira (1974) (also referred to as Old Dracula) Paper Tiger (1975) No Deposit, No Return (1976) Murder by Death (1976) Candleshoe (1977) Death on the Nile (1978) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) Escape to Athena (1979) Rough Cut (1980) The Sea Wolves (1980) Better Late Than Never (1982) Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) Curse of the Pink Panther'' (1983)