David Niven
Born: 1910-03-01 in London, England, UK
Died: 1983-07-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2024
- Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2005
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
- Gregory Peck: His Own Man as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
1984
- The Night They Saved Christmas ... (Executive Producer)
1983
- Curse of the Pink Panther as Sir Charles Litton
- Better Late Than Never as Nick Cartland
1982
- Trail of the Pink Panther as Sir Charles Litton
1980
- Rough Cut as Chief Insp. Cyril Willis
- The Sea Wolves as Col. W.H. Grice
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square as Ivan
1979
- Escape to Athena as Professor Blake
- ABBA in Switzerland as Self
- A Man Called Intrepid as Sir William Stephenson
1978
- Death on the Nile as Colonel Race
- Formula 1 - Speed fever as Self
1977
- Candleshoe as Priory
1976
- Murder by Death as Dick Charleston
- No Deposit, No Return as J.W. Osborne
1975
- Paper Tiger as 'Major' Walter Bradbury
- The Remarkable Rocket as Narrator (voice)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Vampira as Count Dracula
- The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville
- Gorilla as Narrator
1973
1972
- King, Queen, Knave as Charles Dreyer
1971
- The Statue as Alex Bolt
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Scotland Yard - the Golden Thread as Host
1969
- The Brain as Colonnel Carol Matthews, aka 'Le Cerveau'
- The Extraordinary Seaman as Lt. Commander John Finchhaven, R.N.
- Before Winter Comes as Major Burnside
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Prudence and the Pill as Gerald Hardcastle
- The Impossible Years as Jonathan Kingsley
1967
- Casino Royale as James Bond
- Lionpower from MGM
1966
- Eye of the Devil as Philippe de Montfaucon
- Where the Spies Are as Dr. Jason Love
- All Eyes on Sharon Tate as Self - Interviewee
1965
- Lady L as Dicky, Lord Lendale
1964
- Bedtime Story as Lawrence Jameson
- The Rogues as Alec Fleming
1963
- Burke's Law as Harvey Cleeve
- 55 Days at Peking as Sir Arthur Robertson
- The Pink Panther as Sir Charles Lytton
- The Shortest Day as Soldato inglese (uncredited)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Guns of Darkness as Tom Jordan
- The Road to Hong Kong as Lama who remembers Lady Chatterly's Lover (uncredited)
- Conquered City as Major Peter Whitfield
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Guns of Navarone as Cpl. John Anthony Miller
- The Dick Powell Show as Self / Host
- The Best of Enemies as Maj. Richardson
1960
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Larry Mackay
1959
- Happy Anniversary as Chris Walters
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Marcus Dodds
- Ask Any Girl as Miles Doughton
- The David Niven Show as Self - Host
1958
- Bonjour Tristesse as Raymond
- Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
- The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
1957
- Alcoa Theatre as Mark Garron
- The Little Hut as Henry Brittingham-Brett
- My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Smith
- Goodyear Theatre as Jeff Carleton
- Oh, Men! Oh, Women! as Alan Coles
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Allen Raikes
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Around the World in 80 Days as Phileas Fogg
- The Birds and the Bees as Patrick Harris
- The Silken Affair as Roger Tweakham
1955
- The Star and the Story as Johnny
- The King's Thief as James - Duke of Brampton
1954
- Carrington V.C. as Major Charles Carrington
- The Love Lottery as Rex Allerton
- Happy Ever After as Jasper O'Leary
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Moon Is Blue as David Slater
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Doctor
- The Lady Says No as Bill Shelby
1951
- Soldiers Three as Capt. Pindenny
- Happy Go Lovely as B.G. Bruno
- Appointment with Venus as Valentine Moreland
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Sheffield
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as David Niven
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Elusive Pimpernel as Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney
- The Toast of New Orleans as Jacques Riboudeaux
1949
- The BAFTA Awards as Host
- A Kiss for Corliss as Kenneth Marquis
- A Kiss in the Dark as Eric Phillips
- Breakdowns of 1949 as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Enchantment as Roland Dane
- Bonnie Prince Charlie as Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Henry Brougham
- The Other Love as Doctor Anthony Stanton
- The Perfect Marriage as Dale Williams
1946
- A Matter of Life and Death as Peter Carter
- Magnificent Doll as Aaron Burr
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- The Way Ahead as Lieutenant Jim Perry
- United States as Narrator (voice)
1942
- The First of the Few as Geoffrey Crisp
1939
- Bachelor Mother as David Merlin
- Eternally Yours as Tony "The Great Arturo"
- Raffles as A.J. Raffles
- Wuthering Heights as Edgar Linton
- The Real Glory as Lieut. McCool
1938
- Four Men and a Prayer as Christopher Leigh
- Three Blind Mice as Steve Harrington
- The Dawn Patrol as Lt. Scott
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Albert De Regnier
1937
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim
- Dinner at the Ritz as Paul de Brack
- We Have Our Moments as Joe Gilling
1936
- Rose Marie as Teddy
- Beloved Enemy as Captain Gerald Preston
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Captain Randall
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Bertie Wooster
- Palm Springs as George Britell
- Dodsworth as Captain Clyde Lockert
1935
- Barbary Coast as Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
- Without Regret as Bill Gage
- Splendor as Clancey Lorrimore
- A Feather in Her Hat as Leo Cartwright
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
1934
- Cleopatra as Slave (uncredited)
1932
- There Goes the Bride as Bit Role (uncredited)