He passed rapidly through his marriages to Virginia Cherrill, Barbara Hutton and Betsy Drake and filled in the lonely gaps between them by falling in and out of love with most of his leading ladies, which, as his output of films was prodigious, underlined the excellence of his physical condition.
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You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
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Birth: | 1st March, 1910 |
Death: | 29th July, 1983 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor, Novelist |
David Niven was born in Carswell Manor,Oxfordshire England. He was an English actor and novelist. He may be best known for his roles as Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. He was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables. He wrote four books. The first, Round the Rugged Rocks, was a novel that appeared in 1951 and was forgotten almost at once. In 1981 Niven published a second and much more successful novel, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly.
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