James David Graham Niven (David Niven) (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983), was an Academy Award-winning English actor.
James David Graham Niven was born in London, England, the son of William Edward Graham Niven and French/British Henrietta Julia de Gacher, who was born in Wales. He was named David for his birth on St. David's Day. His father died during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and his mother remarried Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. After attending Stowe as a boy, Niven trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which gave him the "officer and gentleman" bearing that was to be his trademark. He served for two years in Malta with the Highland Light Infantry. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, which he believed sounded more romantic than London.
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)
* Beloved Enemy {1936)
* 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)
* 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 known 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)