Biography: life and films
David Niven was an English actor. He was born in London, England on 1st March 1910 and died in Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland on 29th July 1983, aged 73.His best films as an actor include Garson Kanin's comedy Bachelor Mother (1939), William Wyler's Wuthering Heights (1939), Michael Powell's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Blake Edwards's The Pink Panther (1963).
David Niven appeared in 89 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: J. Lee Thompson (3 films), Blake Edwards (3), William Wyler (2), Val Guest (2), Tay Garnett (2), Ralph Thomas (2), Otto Preminger (2), Norman Tokar (2), Norman Taurog (2), Michael Powell (2), Henry Koster (2), Charles Walters (2) and Anthony Asquith (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (48 films), drama (27), comedy-romance (15), War (13), romance (9), history (5), comedy-thriller (4), Thriller (4), crime-thriller (3), comedy-drama (3), Fantasy (3), Horror (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for David Niven over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
There Goes the Bride (1932) [a]
Eyes of Fate (1933) [a]
A Feather in Her Hat (1935) [a]
Splendor (1935) [a]
Without Regret (1935) [a]
Beloved Enemy (1936) [a]
Dodsworth (1936) [a]
Palm Springs (1936) [a]
Rose-Marie (1936) [a]
Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) [a]
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) [a]
Dinner at the Ritz (1937) [a]
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) [a]
We Have Our Moments (1937) [a]
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) [a]
Four Men and a Prayer (1938) [a]
The Dawn Patrol (1938) [a]
Three Blind Mice (1938) [a]
Eternally Yours (1939) [a]
Raffles (1939) [a]
The Real Glory (1939) [a]
The First of the Few (1942) [a]
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) [a]
The Other Love (1947) [a]
The Perfect Marriage (1947) [a]
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) [a]
Enchantment (1948) [a]
A Kiss for Corliss (1949) [a]
A Kiss in the Dark (1949) [a]
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) [a]
The Toast of New Orleans (1950) [a]
Appointment with Venus (1951) [a]
Happy Go Lovely (1951) [a]
Soldiers Three (1951) [a]
The Lady Says No (1952) [a]
Happy Ever After (1954) [a]
The Love Lottery (1954) [a]
Carrington V.C. (1955) [a]
The King's Thief (1955) [a]
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [a]
The Birds and the Bees (1956) [a]
The Silken Affair (1956) [a]
My Man Godfrey (1957) [a]
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) [a]
The Little Hut (1957) [a]
Bonjour tristesse (1958) [a]
Separate Tables (1958) [a]
Ask Any Girl (1959) [a]
Happy Anniversary (1959) [a]
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) [a]
The Guns of Navarone (1961) [a]
Guns of Darkness (1962) [a]
Il Giorno più corto (1962) [a]
La Città prigioniera (1962) [a]
The Best of Enemies (1962) [a]
55 Days at Peking (1963) [a]
Lady L (1965) [a]
Where the Spies Are (1965) [a]
Prudence and the Pill (1968) [a]
The Impossible Years (1968) [a]
Before Winter Comes (1969) [a]
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) [a]
The Statue (1971) [a]
King, Queen, Knave (1972) [a]
Vampira (1974) [a]
Paper Tiger (1975) [a]
Murder by Death (1976) [a]
No Deposit, No Return (1976) [a]
Candleshoe (1977) [a]
Formula uno, febbre della velocità (1978) [a]
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) [a]
Escape to Athena (1979) [a]
Rough Cut (1980) [a]
The Sea Wolves (1980) [a]
Better Late Than Never (1982) [a]
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) [a]
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) [a]
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The best French war films ever made
