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David Niven

David Niven

British actor and novelist (1910-1983)
March 1, 1910 (July 29, 1983)
G.-B. 1982. Comedy by Bryan Forbes with David Niven, Art Carney, Kimberley Partrigge. A ten-year-old heiress makes life difficult for two sexagenarians, one of whom is her real grandfather.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1980. Police comedy by Don Siegel with Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven.
Runtime: 112 min.
G.-B. 1980. War drama by Andrew V. McLaglen with Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 1979. War drama by Peter Carter with David Niven, Michael York, Barbara Hershey.
G.-B. 1979. War drama by George P. Cosmatos with Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven.
Runtime: 125 min.
G.-B. 1978. Crime drama by John Guillermin with Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Mia Farrow.
Runtime: 139 min.
U.S. 1977. Police comedy by Norman Tokar with Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes. Hired by a con artist to cheat an elderly English woman, a delinquent teenager takes a liking to her victim.
Runtime: 101
U.S. 1976. Police comedy by Robert Moore with Peter Falk, David Niven, Alec Guinness. An eccentric millionaire gathers five famous detectives in his mansion with the promise of a murder mystery to solve.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1975. Comedy by Norman Tokar with David Niven, Darren McGavin, Kim Richards. Two children conspire with burglars to fake a kidnapping and demand a ransom from their rich grandfather.
Runtime: 112 min.
G.-B. 1974. Adventures by Ken Annakin with David Niven, Toshiro Mifune, Hardy Krüger. In London, the Japanese ambassador’s young son and his English tutor are kidnapped by terrorists.
G.-B. 1974. Comedy by Clive Donner with David Niven, Teresa Graves, Peter Bayliss.
Runtime: 89 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1970. Comedy by Rod Amateau with David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn. A professor, honoured with the Nobel Prize for the invention of an international language, is also the subject of a giant statue sculpted by his wife.
Runtime: 84 min.

The Brain

V.O.: Le Cerveau
Fr. 1969. Police comedy by Gérard Oury with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven. An expert thief and two shady crooks enter into a rivalry over a train robbery.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1968. Comedy by John Frankenheimer with David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda. A ghost captain gets involved in the war in the Pacific.
Runtime: 79 min.
G.-B. 1968. Drama by Jack Lee Thompson with David Niven, Topol, John Hurt. After the last war, a British officer is put in charge of a camp for displaced persons in Austria.
Runtime: 107 min.
G.-B. 1968. Mores comedy by Fielder Cook with David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Irina Demick. A British financier, who doesn't get along with his wife, discovers that she is taking birth control pills.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1968. Comedy by Michael Gordon with David Niven, Lola Albright, Christina Ferrare. A psychiatrist encounters difficulties with his oldest daughter.
Runtime: 97 min.
G.-B. 1967. Spy comedy by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath with David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress. Agent 007 comes out of retirement to confront a criminal network, with the help of colleagues who borrow his identity in order to confuse the bandits.
Runtime: 130 min.
U.S. 1966. Drama by Jack Lee Thompson with Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Sharon Tate. An aristocrat's wife discovers that her husband is part of a satanic cult.
Runtime: 88 min.
G.-B. 1965. Spy drama by Val Guest with David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, Nigel Davenport. A doctor is assigned to an espionage mission in Lebanon.
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1965. Comedy by Peter Ustinov with Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven. The wife of a British aristocrat recounts her youthful love affair with an anarchist.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 1964. Comedy by Ralph Levy with Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones. Two knights of industry join forces to swindle rich women.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1963. Police comedy by Blake Edwards with Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine. A bumbling police officer tries to stop a gentleman burglar from stealing a valuable diamond from a young Hindu princess.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1963. History by Nicholas Ray with Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven. In 1900, the attack of the international district of Beijing by the Boxers.
Runtime: 150 min.

Conquered City

V.O.: La Città prigioniera
It. 1963. War drama by Joseph Anthony with David Niven, Lea Massari, Ben Gazzara. In Athens, in 1944, members of the British Information Service must confront Greek snipers.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1962. Adventures by Anthony Asquith with David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice. A man tries to help the president of a republic escape the rebels who are chasing him.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1961. War drama by Jack Lee Thompson with Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. A British commando is charged with blowing up two powerful cannons on an island in the Aegean Sea.
Runtime: 154 min.
G.-B. 1961. Satire by Guy Hamilton with David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Amedeo Nazzari. In Abyssinia, a British major and an Italian captain are taken prisoner in turn.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1960. Comedy by Charles Walters with David Niven, Doris Day, Janis Paige. The family and professional problems of a theatre critic.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1959. Comedy by Charles Walters with David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young. A young girl has a series of adventures after leaving her small hometown to find a job and husband in New York.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1959. Comedy by David Miller with David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Monique Van Vooren. A couple gets into trouble when the husband reveals to his in-laws that he had relations with their daughter for one year before the wedding.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1958. Psychological drama by Delbert Mann with Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster. Small dramas take place in a hotel where lonely people take refuge.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1957. Comedy by Henry Koster with June Allyson, David Niven, Martha Hyer. A whimsical family takes in a poor chap who becomes a valuable servant.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1957. Psychological drama by Otto Preminger with Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr. A teenage girl tries to prevent her father's remarriage.
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 1956. Satire by Roy Kellino with David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1956. Comedy by Nunnally Johnson with Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey, David Niven. The romantic misadventures of a popular psychiatrist.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1956. Comedy by Mark Robson with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven. A woman is shipwrecked on an island with her husband and her lover.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1956. Adventures by Michael Anderson with David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine. A wealthy gentleman from London bets that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days.
Runtime: 177 min.
U.S. 1956. Comedy by Norman Taurog with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven. The misadventures of a young billionaire who has fallen in love with a travelling companion.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1955. Adventures by Robert Z. Leonard with Edmund Purdom, Ann Blyth, David Niven. A highwayman exposes a minister?s treachery.
Runtime: 79 min.
G.-B. 1955. Drama by Anthony Asquith with David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Geoffrey Keen. An officer is court-martialed after giving false testimony.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1953. Satire by Charles Crichton with David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon. A movie actor tries to escape from the popularity he is subjected to by women.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1952. Sentimental comedy by Otto Preminger with William Holden, David Niven, Maggie MacNamara. Two men fall in love with a charming young girl.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1951. Musical by H. Bruce Humberstone with David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero. A young girl becomes the star of a magazine since her impresario thinks she's engaged to a millionaire.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1951. Sentimental comedy by Frank Ross with David Niven, Joan Caulfield, James Robertson Justice. A journalist, called to interview a feminist author of a book, ends up falling in love with her.
Runtime: 80 min.
U.S. 1950. Musical by Norman Taurog with Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David Niven. A fisher who has become an opera singer falls in love with the troupe's soprano.
U.S. 1949. Comedy by Richard Wallace with Shirley Temple, David Niven, Tom Tully. A lawyer's daughter causes a stir in her entourage when she invents a love affair with a divorced rich man.
U.S. 1949. Comedy by Delmer Daves with David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore. The troubles of a pianist who became the manager of a tenement house.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1949. Adventures by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell with David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack. An English noble strives to save victims of the revolutionary regime in France from the guillotine.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1948. Sentimental drama by Irving Reis with David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes. Thinking that his niece is about to marry an aviator, an elderly general rehashes his memories.
Runtime: 100 min.
G.-B. 1948. History by Anthony Kimmins with David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins. Prince Charles Stuart, pretender to the crown of England, fights in Scotland against the Roundheads.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1947. Psychological drama by André de Toth with Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte. A pianist who suffers from an incurable disease decides to live life to its fullest.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1947. Fantasy comedy by Henry Koster with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. In human form, an angel comes to the aid of a Protestant bishop and affects the wife of his protege.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1946. Comedy by Lewis Allen with Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert. On the eve of their tenth wedding anniversary, a couple takes stock of their married life.
Runtime: 88 min.
G.-B. 1946. Fantasy by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger with David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter. While in limbo between life and death, a wounded aviator undergoes a trial in the afterlife.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1946. Biography by Frank Borzage with Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith. A young widow from Virginia marries a congressman who is called on to become president of the United States.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1943. Biography by Leslie Howard with Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John. Portrait of the career of Reginald Mitchell, inventor of a fighter plane.
Runtime: 118 min.
G.-B. 1943. War drama by Carol Reed with David Niven, Stanley Holloway, Raymond Huntley. The training and first combat experiences of British soldiers in 1941.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1939. Comedy by Garson Kanin with Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1939. Sentimental comedy by Tay Garnett with Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1939. Police comedy by Sam Wood with David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty.
Runtime: 72 min.
U.S. 1939. Adventures by Henry Hathaway with Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1938. War drama by Edmund Goulding with Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1938. Sentimental drama by William Wyler with Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1938. Drama by John Ford with C. Aubrey-Smith, Loretta Young, David Niven.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1937. Police comedy by Harold Schuster with Annabella, Paul Lukas, David Niven.
Runtime: 77 min.
U.S. 1935. Sentimental drama by Elliott Nugent with Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, David Niven.
Runtime: 75 min.

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