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David Niven - what members say
review by flippertbk from Milton Keynes, England
One of my favourite films 14 July 2004
review by from London
A World War II Classic not to be missed!! 22 November 2004
review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
2 August 2004
David Niven - filmography
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Trail of the Pink Panther
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate: 
A journalist (Joanne Lumley) is interviewing people who came into contact with the late Inspector Clouseau for an article in tribute to the great detective. Made two years after Peter Sellers' death, and featuring a string of outtakes from the earlier Pink Panther films.
 
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from 2,639 members
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Curse Of The Pink Panther
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate:
France's greatest (?) detective, Inspector Clouseau, is missing. Interpol propose putting their best detective (selected by computer) on his trail, but this results in a bumbling incompetent (Ted Wass) being given the job instead. Blake Edwards directed this comedy, which was David Niven's last film.
53%
from 519 members
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Rough Cut
(1980)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
Director: Don Siegel
Certificate: 
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
50%
from 5 members
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The Sea Wolves
(1980)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Certificate:
They were the unlikeliest heroes of World War II - the gray-haired veterans of the Calcutta Light Horse, who hadn't seen action since the Boer War, but were fated to become The Sea Wolves. Retelling of true wartime exploits hidden until the 1978 British Official Secrets Act lifted security ..read more »
68%
from 62 members
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Escape To Athena
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Elliott Gould, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate:
Austrian commandant Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore) is carrying out Hitler's orders to loot ancient art treasures on the Greek island of Athena, unaware that local resistance leader Zeno (Telly Savalas) is hatching a plot to defeat him. A group of freedom fighters land on the island to battle the ..read more »
58%
from 810 members
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Jordan, David Niven
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Late 1970s crime comedy starring Richard Jordan and David Niven. Former con artist Pinky (Jordan) decides to live an honest life upon his release from jail. It is not long, however, before he is tempted back into his old habits by Ivan the Terrible (Niven), a local mobster who wants to enlist Pnky'..read more »
52%
from 39 members
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Death On The Nile
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Jane Birkin, Angela Lansbury, Lois Chiles
Director: John Guillermin
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Peter Ustinov stars as detective Hercule Poirot in this star-studded Agatha Christie mystery, set in the 1930s. When a rich heiress is murdered aboard a steamship travelling down the Nile, Poirot discovers that almost all the passengers had a reason to kill her. Will he be able to locate the true ..read more »
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from 1,276 member
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Candleshoe
(1977)
Starring: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes
Director: Norman Tokar
Certificate: 
A Disney children's classic. If Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) cannot raise the money needed to pay her taxes, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown out of their home, the large estate of Candleshoe. With the help of the children and her butler, Priory (David Niven), she ..read more »
68%
from 133 members
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Estelle Winwood, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Robert Moore
Certificate:
Spoof whodunnit featuring a host of stars playing variations on well-known fictional detectives. Reclusive millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites a selection of famous sleuths to his mansion and subjects them all to a number of perilous and puzzling scenarios. The guests include Chinese ..read more »
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from 2,254 members
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Paper Tiger
(1975)
Starring: David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Ken Annakin
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A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
63%
from 15 members
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The Statue
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Ann Bell, John Cleese
Director: Rodney Amateau
Certificate: 
British comedy farce starring David Niven. After spending most of his career developing what he hopes will become a universal language, linguist Alex Bolt (Niven) is rewarded with a Nobel prize. When his sculptress Italian wife Rhonda (Virna Lisa) is asked to design a statue to commemorate her ..read more »
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from 35 members
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Prudence and the Pill
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Edith Evans
Director: Fielder Cook
Certificate: 
David Niven and Deborah Kerr star in this British comedy about five couples whose attempts to use a birth-control pill are thwarted by those around them. Banker Gerald Hardcastle (Niven) and his wife Prudence (Kerr) are unhappily married. While Gerald has a mistress, Elizabeth (Irina Demick), ..read more »
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from 3 members
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, William Holden, Daliah Lavi
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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Five directors and an all-star cast spoof the James Bond films in this comedy, very loosely based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel. Sir James Bond (David Niven) is about to retire, but is called into battle with the evil organisation S.M.E.R.S.H. after the assassination of 'M' (John Huston). Bond'..read more »
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from 2,979 members
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Lady L
(1965)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven
Director: Peter Ustinov
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Today Lady Louise Lendale is 80 years old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy, all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in "Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met Armand, both a charming man and a bomb-throwing ..read more »
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from 5 members
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Bedtime Story
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Dody Goodman, Shirley Jones, David Niven
Director: Ralph Levy
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A black comedy starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones. The action takes place in a quiet but rich part of Southern France where Lawrence Jameson also know as 'The Prince' (David Niven) has been conning countless women out of their fortunes for years until the arrival of Freddy Benson ..read more »
58%
from 349 members
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55 Days at Peking
(1963)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
Director: Nicholas Ray
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The courage and leadership of U.S. Marine (Charlton Heston) and British Ambassador (David Niven) are the only hope against insurmountable odds, while a beautiful Russian Countess (Ava Gardner) must choose between freedom and commitment.
60%
from 55 members
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The Pink Panther - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate: 
The launch of the Pink Panther series which introduces Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who becomes determined to capture a jewel thief who has lifted the infamous 'Pink Panther' diamond. Little does he know that his wife's lover and thief are the same man. Leaving a trail of ..read more »
68%
from 433 members
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Road To Hong Kong
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Bob Hope, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Director: Norman Panama
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Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star as conmen Chester Babcock and Harry Turner in their final 'road' comedy collaboration. When Chester loses his memory, a wacky espionage adventure ensues for the wisecracking duo, taking them from Sri Lanka to Hong Kong via Tibet - and outer space. Along the way they ..read more »
60%
from 384 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
(1961)
Starring: Bryan Forbes, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
70%
from 5,437 members
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
(1960)
Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
Director: Charles Walters
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David Niven meets his match when he crosses Doris Day's path and questions her ambitions. Niven plays a drama critic who copes with his wife's remodeling plans and a conniving actress friend at the same time...
68%
from 472 members
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Separate Tables
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr
Director: Delbert Mann
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A collection of guests gather at an English seaside boarding house. The landlady, Pat Cooper (Wendy Hiller), is the lover of failed alcoholic writer John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), whose life is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of his ex-wife, Ann (Rita Hayworth). Other guests include the matronly ..read more »
69%
from 587 members
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Bonjour Tristesse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Walter Chiari, Geoffrey Horne, Deborah Kerr
Director: Otto Preminger
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Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish ..read more »
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from 682 members
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Carrington V.C.
(1954)
Starring: Allan Cuthbertson, Margaret Leighton, David Niven
Director: Anthony Asquith
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British Army Major Carrington (David Niven) is brought up for a court martial on various charges, embezzlement being at the top of the list. Conducting his own defence, Carrington sets out to clear his name, but faces opposition from the unlikeliest of quarters - his wife (Margaret Leighton).
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from 75 members
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The Lady Says No
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: David Niven, Joan Caulfield
Director: Frank Ross
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Joan Caulfield, David Niven star in this amazing comedy directed by Frank Ross. A successful female author (Joan Caulfield)rises to fame and fortune with her anti-male book. When she meets a dashing and witty photographer--the great British actor David Niven, best known for his hilarious turns in ..read more »
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from 65 members
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Appointment with Venus
(1951)
Starring: David Niven, Kenneth More, Kenneth More
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Delightful World War II farce based on the novel by Jerrard Tickell. At the outbreak of WWII, the Ministry of Agriculture and the War Office join forces to launch a daring mission to rescue a highly lucrative pedigree cow, Venus, from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel. English Army ..read more »
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from 7 members
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The Bishop's Wife
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Sara Haden, Cary Grant
Director: Henry Koster
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A Christmas fantasy tale. Angel Dudley (Cary Grant) comes to Earth to help out a bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) who is involved in a desperate fundraising appeal to build a cathedral. However, his financial concerns have led him to become cut off from his wife and parishioners, a state of ..read more »
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from 1,783 member
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway
Director: Carol Reed
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Carol Reed directs a host of British stars in this documentary-style WW2 adventure. Following the Dunkirk retreat, Lt. Jim Perry (David Niven) is assigned a bunch of raw recruits and sets about transforming them from bickering civilians into a proficient battle-ready fighting force. When training ..read more »
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from 807 members
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The First Of The Few
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Derrick De Marney, Roland Culver, Rosamund John
Director: Leslie Howard
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The story of R.J. Mitchell (Leslie Howard), the man who designed the Spitfire. Told in flashback by Mitchell's philandering test pilot, Jeffrey Quill (David Niven), the film follows Mitchell as he attempts to persuade Whitehall to sponsor the project and struggles to overcome the technical problems ..read more »
71%
from 561 members
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The Major And The Minor
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
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New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school., who takes her under his wing.
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from 77 members
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Wuthering Heights
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Flora Robson, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Director: William Wyler
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Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon star in this Hollywood classic as Heathcliffe and Cathy, in the popular dramatisation of Emily Bronte's novel. Set in Victorian England it traces the doomed love affair between a girl and a gypsy. An Oscar winner (for photography) , the movie stops at chapter 17 ..read more »
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from 2,794 members
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David Niven facts
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...rope in WWII to the miraculous survival (or so it appears) of the ever so sauve David Niven to Heaven - and back again. Or did everything take place in his head - the wild...
