Actor · Acting

David Niven

Born 1910-03-01

Died 1983-07-29

📍 London, England, UK

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.

Filmography 144

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

as (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Count Dracula (archive footage)

Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

as Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

as Self (archive footage)

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

as Self (archive footage)

Curse of the Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Litton

Better Late Than Never

as Nick Cartland

Trail of the Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Litton

as Col. W.H. Grice

as Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Escape to Athena

as Professor Blake

A Man Called Intrepid

as Sir William Stephenson

ABBA in Switzerland

Death on the Nile

as Colonel Race

Formula 1 - Speed fever

Murder by Death

as Dick Charleston

No Deposit, No Return

as J.W. Osborne

as 'Major' Walter Bradbury

The Remarkable Rocket

as Narrator (voice)

The Canterville Ghost

as Sir Simon de Canterville

as Count Dracula

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

King, Queen, Knave

as Charles Dreyer

The Extraordinary Seaman

as Lt. Commander John Finchhaven, R.N.

as Colonnel Carol Matthews, Aka 'Le Cerveau'

Before Winter Comes

as Major Burnside

The Impossible Years

as Jonathan Kingsley

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Prudence and the Pill

as Gerald Hardcastle

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Cmdr. John Finchhaven, RN (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eye of the Devil

as Philippe de Montfaucon

All Eyes on Sharon Tate

as Self - Interviewee

Where the Spies Are

as Dr. Jason Love

as Dicky, Lord Lendale

as Alec Fleming

as Lawrence Jameson

The Pink Panther

as Sir Charles Lytton

as Harvey Cleeve

55 Days at Peking

as Sir Arthur Robertson

The Shortest Day

as Soldato inglese (uncredited)

as Major Peter Whitfield

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Guns of Darkness

The Road to Hong Kong

as Lama who remembers Lady Chatterly's Lover (uncredited)

The Mike Douglas Show

The Best of Enemies

as Maj. Richardson

The Dick Powell Show

The Guns of Navarone

as Cpl. John Anthony Miller

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

as Larry Mackay

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Marcus Dodds

as Miles Doughton

The David Niven Show

Happy Anniversary

as Chris Walters

Separate Tables

as Major Angus Pollock

The All-Star Christmas Show

Bonjour Tristesse

as Godfrey Smith

as Robert Medhill

as Jeff Carleton

as Henry Brittingham-Brett

Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

Around the World in 80 Days

as Phileas Fogg

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Allen Raikes

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Silken Affair

as Roger Tweakham

The Birds and the Bees

as Patrick Harris

The King's Thief

as James - Duke of Brampton

The Star and the Story

Carrington V.C.

as Major Charles Carrington

Happy Ever After

as Jasper O'Leary

The Love Lottery

as Rex Allerton

The Moon Is Blue

as David Slater

The Lady Says No

Appointment with Venus

as Valentine Moreland

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Capt. Pindenny

Happy Go Lovely

The Elusive Pimpernel

as Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney

The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program

The Toast of New Orleans

as Jacques Riboudeaux

The Bob Hope Show

What's My Line?

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

Robert Montgomery Presents

Breakdowns of 1949

A Kiss for Corliss

as Kenneth Marquis

The BAFTA Awards

A Kiss in the Dark

as Eric Phillips

Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Prince Charles Edward Stuart

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Bishop's Wife

as Henry Brougham

as Doctor Anthony Stanton

The Perfect Marriage

as Dale Williams

A Matter of Life and Death

as Peter Carter

Magnificent Doll

as Narrator (voice)

as Lieutenant Jim Perry

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

The First of the Few

as Geoffrey Crisp

as A.J. Raffles

Eternally Yours

as Tony "The Great Arturo"

as Lieut. McCool

Bachelor Mother

as David Merlin

Wuthering Heights

as Edgar Linton

The Dawn Patrol

Three Blind Mice

as Steve Harrington

Four Men and a Prayer

as Christopher Leigh

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

as Albert De Regnier

Dinner at the Ritz

as Paul de Brack

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim

We Have Our Moments

as Captain Gerald Preston

The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Captain Randall

Thank You, Jeeves!

as Bertie Wooster

as Captain Clyde Lockert

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

as George Britell

as Clancey Lorrimore

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)

A Feather in Her Hat

as Leo Cartwright

as Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)

as Slave (uncredited)

There Goes the Bride

as Bit Role (uncredited)