David Niven ,ONE OF THE LEGEND IN HOLLYWOOD
David Niven David Niven was a former British army lieutenant whose debonair charm conquered Hollywood and helped make him an Academy Award-winning star and a perennially popular character actor. Slim, witty and lighthearted, Niven crowned two urbane decades before the film cameras with his Academy Award as the best actor of 1958, which came for his performance as a fraudulent British major in the drama Separate Tables . He had important roles in many other films, including Samuel Goldwyn's Wuthering Heights (1939), in which he played the gentle husband of a restless Merle Oberon. And he starred as the adventurous Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days (1958). Niven's other major films included Dawn Patrol (1938), Stairway to Heaven (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), Enchantment (1948), Court Martial (1955) and Where the Spies Are (1966). In a...