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Pink Panther, The (1963, Peter Sellers, David Niven)

The film that launched the bumbling, incompetent Inspector Jacques Clouseau (PETER SELLERS) on the world actually has him playing second fiddle to DAVID NIVEN and ROBERT...

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Toast of New Orleans, The (MGM 1950, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza)

Although just a paragraph in the novel that was MARIO LANZA’S life, Toast Of New Orleans retains its charm as a work of accidental autobiography. The...

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Elusive Pimpernel, The (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

Samuel Goldwyn loaned David Niven to Alexander Korda’s London Films to play the title role in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s version of Baroness Orczy’s adventure....

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Sea Wolves, The (1980, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore)

Three German ships moored in neutral Goa in WWII are sending U-boats details of passing British ships, to devastating effect. Because of Goa’s neutrality, the regular...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

Although the casting of the urbane, distinctly English-sounding A Matter of Life and Death star as the leader of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion may have raised...

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Man Called Intrepid, A (NBC 1979, David Niven, Michael York)

Wartime thriller mini-series A Man Called Intrepid is set during the second world war when Churchill instigates the setting up of a Canadian spy ring. production...

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Death on the Nile (Paramount 1978, Peter Ustinov, David Niven)

A deluxe version of Agatha Christie’s favorite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her ‘Murder on the Orient Express.’ Set aboard a...

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Matter Of Life And Death, A (1946, David Niven, Kim Hunter)

A strong contender for the best British movie ever made, this devastating fantasy has ceded little impact and continues to champion the merits of the Archers’...

Movies4 years ago

Appointment with Venus (1951, David Niven, Glynis Johns)

During World War II, an English Army major and his assistant (David Niven and Glynis Johns) are assigned to rescue a pedigree cow from one of...

Movies4 years ago

Way Ahead, The (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway)

Classic British war film The Way Ahead was inspired by the 40-minute army training film The New Lot directed in 1943 by Carol Reed for the...

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Carrington, V.C. (1954, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

Anthony Asquith’s vivid and subtle film casts David Niven in the role of the eponymous Carrington, desperate for money owed him by the Army and badgered...

Movies4 years ago

First Of The Few, The (1942, Leslie Howard, David Niven)

The First of the Few is an absorbing film biography of R J Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire, the aircraft that enabled the Royal Air...

Movies5 years ago

Ask Any Girl (MGM 1959, David Niven, Shirley Maclaine)

Bright and breezy comedy Ask Any Girl casts SHIRLEY MACLAINE as Meg Wheeler, a small-town Pennsylvanian who, arriving in New York in search of a husband...

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Separate Tables (United Artists 1958, David Niven, Deborah Kerr)

Touching, subtle examination of lonely lives and lost loves, Separate Tables, adapted from Terence Rattigan’s play of the same name, follows several residents of an English...

Movies5 years ago

Guns of Navarone, The (Columbia 1961, David Niven, Gregory Peck)

The Guns of Navarone was a fine war movie with an all-star cast and a gripping plot based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team...

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David Niven

Pink Panther, The (1963, Peter Sellers, David Niven)

Toast of New Orleans, The (MGM 1950, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza)

Elusive Pimpernel, The (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

Sea Wolves, The (1980, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore)

Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

Man Called Intrepid, A (NBC 1979, David Niven, Michael York)

Death on the Nile (Paramount 1978, Peter Ustinov, David Niven)

Matter Of Life And Death, A (1946, David Niven, Kim Hunter)

Appointment with Venus (1951, David Niven, Glynis Johns)

Way Ahead, The (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway)

Carrington, V.C. (1954, David Niven, Margaret Leighton)

First Of The Few, The (1942, Leslie Howard, David Niven)

Ask Any Girl (MGM 1959, David Niven, Shirley Maclaine)

Separate Tables (United Artists 1958, David Niven, Deborah Kerr)

Guns of Navarone, The (Columbia 1961, David Niven, Gregory Peck)

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