David Niven

David Niven
Birthday: 03/01/1910 Year
Age: 73 year
Place of Birth: London, UK
Date of Death: 29/07/1983 Year
Place of death: Ch?teau-d’Oex, Vaud, Switzerland

Original name: James David Graham Niven

English film actor, in origin – Scotsman (hence the pronunciation names are not according to the rules of English orthoepy), which for half a century he worked in Hollywood, focusing on the roles of British aristocrats with unchanged butterfly and rose in his buttonhole.
 
Niven was born in London in a family hero of World War I and a lot of youth rotated among senior officers, graduated from the military academy Sendhёrst. In early 1930, at the invitation of producer Samuel Goldwyn arrived in Hollywood, where initially stayed with his friend Errol Flynn. Appeared in small roles in such classic films as “Mutiny on the” Bounty “” (1935) and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1936).
And not waiting for the main roles, Niven during the Second World War, he returned to the British army and joined the forces generated by the commandos (where his orderly was Peter Ustinov), passed a full course of training in commando training center Aknakerri under the guidance of his friend Robert Laycock, the war is over liaison officer, during the war, had to withdraw in two films. On his return from the war he married and became finally receive offers leading roles – in the film “The Bishop’s Wife” (1947) and “Blue Moon” (1953), which, to his chagrin, was banned by the censors circumstances. In 1956 he played Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne adaptation of the novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”, and another two years later won the “Oscar” for the title role in the movie “Separate Tables”, although the total screen time his character was less than 16 minutes.
Niven went on to star on the rise in the 1960s and 1970s, starring in the famous comedy “The Pink Panther” (1963) and its sequels, as well as James Bond in “unlicensed” “Casino Royale” (1967). Several of his autobiographical book became a bestseller (eg. The Moon’s a Baloon). Died at age 73 from a rare disease – Lou Gehrig’s syndrome.

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