Actor
David Niven
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. ...

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