About
David Niven
Overview
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 |
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| 2024 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | Actor | (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Rat Pack | Actor | David Niven (Images d'archives) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | The Many Faces of Dracula | Actor | Count Dracula (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Bogart: The Untold Story | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Actor | actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | Curse of the Pink Panther | Actor | Sir Charles Litton | 55 Average |
| 1983 | Better Late Than Never | Actor | Nick Cartland | 58 Average |
| 1982 | Trail of the Pink Panther | Actor | Sir Charles Litton | 56 Average |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves | Actor | Col. W.H. Grice | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Rough Cut | Actor | Chief Insp. Cyril Willis | 58 Average |
| 1980 | A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square | Actor | Ivan | 59 Average |
| 1979 | A Man Called Intrepid | Actor | Sir William Stephenson | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Escape to Athena | Actor | Professor Blake | 58 Average |
| 1979 | A Man Called Intrepid | Actor | Sir William Stephenson | 59 Average |
| 1979 | ABBA in Switzerland | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | Actor | Colonel Race | 66 Fair |
| 1978 | Formula 1 - Speed fever | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette | Actor | Self / Colonel Johnny Race | 59 Average |
| 1977 | Candleshoe | Actor | Priory | 60 Fair |
| 1976 | Murder by Death | Actor | Dick Charleston | 66 Fair |
| 1976 | No Deposit, No Return | Actor | J.W. Osborne | 59 Average |
| 1975 | Paper Tiger | Actor | 'Major' Walter Bradbury | 59 Average |
| 1975 | The Remarkable Rocket | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1974 | The Canterville Ghost | Actor | Sir Simon de Canterville | 58 Average |
| 1974 | Vampira | Actor | Count Dracula | 58 Average |
| 1972 | King, Queen, Knave | Actor | Charles Dreyer | 58 Average |
| 1971 | Scotland Yard - the Golden Thread | Actor | Host | N/A N/A |
| 1971 | The Statue | Actor | Alex Bolt | 58 Average |
| 1969 | The Extraordinary Seaman | Actor | Lt. Commander John Finchhaven, R.N. | 58 Average |
| 1969 | The Brain | Actor | Le Colonnel Carol Matthews, dit « Le Cerveau » | 63 Fair |
| 1969 | Before Winter Comes | Actor | Major Burnside | 59 Average |
| 1968 | The Impossible Years | Actor | Jonathan Kingsley | 59 Average |
| 1968 | Prudence and the Pill | Actor | Gerald Hardcastle | 58 Average |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Actor | James Bond | 55 Average |
| 1966 | Eye of the Devil | Actor | Philippe de Montfaucon | 59 Average |
| 1966 | All Eyes on Sharon Tate | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Where the Spies Are | Actor | Dr. Jason Love | 58 Average |
| 1965 | Lady L | Actor | Dicky, Lord Lendale | 58 Average |
| 1964 | The Rogues | Actor | Alec Fleming | 69 Fair |
| 1964 | Bedtime Story | Actor | Lawrence Jameson | 59 Average |
| 1963 | The Pink Panther | Actor | Sir Charles Lytton | 65 Fair |
| 1963 | 55 Days at Peking | Actor | Sir Arthur Robertson | 61 Fair |
| 1963 | The Shortest Day | Actor | Soldato inglese (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1962 | Conquered City | Actor | Major Peter Whitfield | 58 Average |
| 1962 | Guns of Darkness | Actor | Tom Jordan | 58 Average |
| 1962 | The Road to Hong Kong | Actor | Lama who remembers Lady Chatterly's Lover (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1961 | The Best of Enemies | Actor | Maj. Richardson | 59 Average |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Actor | Cpl. James Arthur Miller | 67 Fair |
| 1960 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Actor | Larry Mackay | 59 Average |
| 1959 | Ask Any Girl | Actor | Miles Doughton | 59 Average |
| 1959 | The David Niven Show | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
| 1959 | Happy Anniversary | Actor | Chris Walters | 59 Average |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Actor | David Angus Pollock | 60 Fair |
| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse | Actor | Raymond | 60 Fair |
| 1957 | My Man Godfrey | Actor | Godfrey Smith | 59 Average |
| 1957 | The Little Hut | Actor | Henry Brittingham-Brett | 59 Average |
| 1957 | Oh, Men! Oh, Women! | Actor | Alan Coles | 59 Average |
| 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Actor | Phileas Fogg | 62 Fair |
| 1956 | The Silken Affair | Actor | Roger Tweakham | 58 Average |
| 1956 | The Birds and the Bees | Actor | Patrick Harris | 59 Average |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Actor | Phileas Fogg | N/A N/A |
| 1955 | The King's Thief | Actor | James - Duke of Brampton | 59 Average |
| 1954 | Carrington V.C. | Actor | Major Charles Carrington | 59 Average |
| 1954 | Happy Ever After | Actor | Jasper O'Leary | 58 Average |
| 1954 | The Love Lottery | Actor | Rex Allerton | 58 Average |
| 1953 | The Moon Is Blue | Actor | David Slater | 59 Average |
| 1952 | The Lady Says No | Actor | Bill Shelby | 58 Average |
| 1951 | Appointment with Venus | Actor | Valentine Moreland | 58 Average |
| 1951 | Soldiers Three | Actor | Capt. Pindenny | 58 Average |
| 1951 | Happy Go Lovely | Actor | B.G. Bruno | 59 Average |
| 1950 | The Elusive Pimpernel | Actor | Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney | 59 Average |
| 1950 | The Toast of New Orleans | Actor | Jacques Riboudeaux | 58 Average |
| 1949 | Breakdowns of 1949 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1949 | A Kiss for Corliss | Actor | Kenneth Marquis | 58 Average |
| 1949 | A Kiss in the Dark | Actor | Eric Phillips | 58 Average |
| 1948 | Enchantment | Actor | Roland Dane | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Actor | Prince Charles Edward Stuart | 58 Average |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Actor | Henry Brougham | 62 Fair |
| 1947 | The Other Love | Actor | Doctor Anthony Stanton | 59 Average |
| 1947 | The Perfect Marriage | Actor | Dale Williams | 59 Average |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Actor | Peter Carter | 67 Fair |
| 1946 | Magnificent Doll | Actor | Aaron Burr | 59 Average |
| 1944 | United States | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1944 | The Way Ahead | Actor | Lieutenant Jim Perry | 59 Average |
| 1942 | The First of the Few | Actor | Geoffrey Crisp | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Raffles | Actor | A.J. Raffles | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Eternally Yours | Actor | Tony "The Great Arturo" | 58 Average |
| 1939 | The Real Glory | Actor | Lieut. McCool | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Bachelor Mother | Actor | David Merlin | 60 Fair |
| 1939 | Wuthering Heights | Actor | Edgar Linton | 63 Fair |
| 1938 | The Dawn Patrol | Actor | Lt. Scott | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Actor | Steve Harrington | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | Actor | Christopher Leigh | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Actor | Albert De Regnier | 60 Fair |
| 1937 | Dinner at the Ritz | Actor | Paul de Brack | 59 Average |
| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Actor | Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim | 60 Fair |
| 1937 | We Have Our Moments | Actor | Joe Gilling | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Beloved Enemy | Actor | Captain Gerald Preston | 59 Average |
| 1936 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Actor | Captain Randall | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Thank You, Jeeves! | Actor | Bertie Wooster | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Dodsworth | Actor | Captain Clyde Lockert | 61 Fair |
| 1936 | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Palm Springs | Actor | George Britell | N/A N/A |
| 1936 | Rose Marie | Actor | Teddy | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Splendor | Actor | Clancey Lorrimore | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Actor | Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited) | 64 Fair |
| 1935 | A Feather in Her Hat | Actor | Leo Cartwright | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Barbary Coast | Actor | Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Without Regret | Actor | Bill Gage | N/A N/A |
| 1934 | Cleopatra | Actor | Slave (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1932 | There Goes the Bride | Actor | Bit Role (uncredited) | 59 Average |
Production |
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| 1984 | The Night They Saved Christmas | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |