David Niven [1910 - 1983]

Date of Birth: 1 March 1910
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Date of Death: 29 July 1983 [from motor neurone disease]
Place of Death: Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland
Also Known As: James David Graham Niven [real name]

All as performer
* = television

GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife [Albert De Regnier]

1939
Wuthering Heights [Edgar Linton]

1946
A Matter of Life and Death [Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter]

1947
The Bishop's Wife [Henry Brougham]

1956
Around the World in Eighty Days [Phileas Fogg]

1965
Where the Spies Are [Dr Jason Love]

1967
Casino Royale [Sir James Bond]
Eye of the Devil [Philippe de Montfaucon]

1969
The Extraordinary Seaman [Commander Finchhaven, R.N.]

1974
The Canterville Ghost *

Vampira [Count Dracula]

1976
Murder by Death [Dick Charleston]

NO DATE
The Remarkable Rocket [voice] *

NON-GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1934
Cleopatra [slave - uncredited]

1935
Barbary Coast [sailor]
A Feather in Her Hat [Leo Cartwright]
Mutiny on the Bounty [uncredited bit part]
Splendor [Clancey Lorrimore]
Without Regret [Bill Gage]

1936
Beloved Enemy [Gerald Preston]
The Charge of the Light Brigade [Captain Randall]
Dodsworth [Major Clyde Lockert]
Palm Springs [George Britell]
Rose-Marie [Teddy]
Thank You, Jeeves [Bertie Wooster]

1937
Dinner at the Ritz [Paul de Brack]
The Prisoner of Zenda [Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim]
We Have Our Moments [Joe Gilling]

1938
The Dawn Patrol [Lieutenant Douglas 'Scotty' Scott]
Four Men and a Prayer [Christopher 'Chris'/'Nosey' Leigh]
Three Blind Mice [Steve Harrington]

1939
Bachelor Mother [David Merlin]
Eternally Yours [Tony Halstead]
The Real Glory [Lieutenant Terence McCool]

1940
Raffles [A.J. Raffles]

1942
The First of the Few [Geoffrey Crisp]

1944
The Way Ahead [Lieutenant Jim Perry]

1946
Magnificent Doll [Aaron Burr]
The Perfect Marriage [Dale Williams]

1947
The Other Love [Doctor Anthony Stanton]

1948
Bonnie Prince Charlie [Prince Charles]
Enchantment [General Sir Roland Dane]

1949
A Kiss for Corliss [Kenneth Marquis]
A Kiss in the Dark [Eric Phillips]
Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet [guest] *

1950
The Elusive Pimpernel [Sir Percy Blakeney]
The Toast of New Orleans [Jacques Riboudeaux]

1951
Appointment with Venus [Major Valentine Morland]
Happy Go Lovely [B.G. Bruno]
Soldiers Three [Captain Pindenny]
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: Not a Chance *

1952
The Lady Says No [Bill Shelby]
Four Star Playhouse [alternate lead player] *

1953
The Moon Is Blue [David Slater - US version]

1954
Happy Ever After [Jasper O'Leary]
The Love Lottery [Rex Allerton]

1955
Carrington, V.C. [Major Charles "Copper" Carrington]
The King's Thief [Duke of Brampton]

1956
The Birds and the Bees [Colonel Harris]

1957
Zane Grey Theater: Village of Fear *
The Little Hut [Henry Brittingham-Brett]
My Man Godfrey [Godfrey Smith]
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! [Dr Alan Coles]
The Silken Affair [Roger Tweakham]

1957 - 1958
Alcoa Theatre [various episode 1957-1958]

1958
Bonjour tristesse [Raymond]
Glamorous Hollywood [himself]
Separate Tables [Major Pollock]

1959
Ask Any Girl [Miles Doughton]
Happy Anniversary [Chris Walters]
The David Niven Show [host]

1960
Please Don't Eat the Daisies [Larry Mackay]

1961
The Best of Enemies [Major Richardson]
The Guns of Navarone [Corporal Miller]

1962
La citta prigioniera [Major Peter Whitfield]
Il giorno pio corto
Guns of Darkness [Tom Jordan]
The Road to Hong Kong [cameo]

1963
55 Days at Peking [Sir Arthur Robertson]
The Pink Panther [Sir Charles Litton]

1964
Bedtime Story [Lawrence Jameson]

1964 - 1965
The Rogues [Alexander (Alec) Fleming] *

1965
Lady L [Dicky, Lord Lendale]

1967
All Eyes On Sharon Tate [himself - uncredited] *

1968
The Impossible Years [Jonathan Kingsley]
Prudence and the Pill [Gerald Hardcastle]
Zane Grey Theater: The Accuser *

1969
Before Winter Comes [Major Giles Burnside]
Le Cerveau [Colonel Carol Matthews]

1971
The Statue [Alex Bolt]

1972
King, Queen, Knave [Charles Dreyer]

1975
Paper Tiger [Walter Bradbury]

1976
No Deposit, No Return [J.W. Osborne]
David Niven's World [host] *

1977
Candleshoe [Colonel Dennis / Mr Gipping / Mr Priory / John]

1978
Death on the Nile [Colonel Race]

1979
Escape to Athena [Professor Blake]
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Ivan (Bernard Drew)]
A Man Called Intrepid [Sir William Stephenson] *

1980
Rough Cut [Chief Inspector Cyril Willis]
The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse [Colonel W.H. Grice]

1982
Better Late Than Never [Nick Cartland]
Trail of the Pink Panther [Sir Charles Litton]

1983
Curse of the Pink Panther [Sir Charles Litton]

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
The Moon's a Balloon [1971]
Bring on the Empty Horses [1975]

NOVELS
Round the Rugged Rocks [1951]
Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly [1981]

BIOGRAPHIES
The Other Side of the Moon by Sheridan Morley [Curley J and Associates (July 1986) ISBN 1555041124]
David Niven: A Bio-Bibliography [Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts No 63] by Karin J. Fowler [Greenwood Publishing Group (March 1995) ISBN 0313280444]

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