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David Niven
Life Time
1 March 1910 - 29 July 1983
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Niven was born in London in the family of a hero of the First World War and in his youth he rotated a lot in the circle of the highest officers. In the early 1930s, at the invitation of producer Samuel Goldwyn, he arrived in Hollywood, where he originally settled with his friend Errol Flynn. He appeared in episodic roles in such classic films as The Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Attack of the Light Cavalry (1936). And without waiting for the main roles, Niven during the Second World War went to
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Niven was born in London in the family of a hero of the First World War and in his youth he rotated a lot in the circle of the highest officers. In the early 1930s, at the invitation of producer Samuel Goldwyn, he arrived in Hollywood, where he originally settled with his friend Errol Flynn. He appeared in episodic roles in such classic films as The Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Attack of the Light Cavalry (1936).
And without waiting for the main roles, Niven during the Second World War went to the front (where his ordinary was Peter Ustinov). Upon his return to citizenship, he married and finally began to receive offers of leading roles - in the films The Bishop's Wife (1947) and Blue Moon (1953), which was banned for censorship reasons to his annoyance. In 1956, he played Phileas Fogg in the film adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, and two years later won an Oscar for the main role in the film At Separate Tables.
Niven continued to act incrementally in the 1960s and 1970s, starring in the famous comedy Pink Panther (1963) and its sequels, as well as James Bond in the "unlicensed" Casino Royale (1967). Several of his autobiographical books have become bestsellers. He died at the age of 73 from a rare disease, Lou Gehrig syndrome.