Mar 1, 1910 - London, England, UK
James David Graham Niven, 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.
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| Movie | 1963 | The Pink Panther | Sir Charles Lytton | |
| Movie | 1985 | Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1966 | Eye of the Devil | Philippe de Montfaucon | |
| Movie | 1939 | Wuthering Heights | Edgar Linton | |
| Movie | 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse | Raymond | |
| Movie | 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Phileas Fogg | |
| Movie | 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1978 | Death on the Nile | Colonel Race | |
| Movie | 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Cpl. James Arthur Miller | |
| Movie | 1966 | Where the Spies Are | Dr. Jason Love | |
| Movie | 1976 | No Deposit, No Return | J.W. Osborne | |
| Movie | 1976 | Murder by Death | Dick Charleston | |
| Movie | 1936 | Dodsworth | Captain Clyde Lockert | |
| Movie | 1962 | The Road to Hong Kong | Lama who remembers Lady Chatterly's Lover (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1938 | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Albert De Regnier | |
| Movie | 1967 | Casino Royale | James Bond | |
| Movie | 1948 | Enchantment | Roland Dane | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Impossible Years | Jonathan Kingsley | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Brain | Colonnel Carol Matthews, aka 'Le Cerveau' | |
| Movie | 1982 | Trail of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |
| Movie | 1963 | 55 Days at Peking | Sir Arthur Robertson | |
| Movie | 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Peter Carter | |
| Movie | 1964 | Bedtime Story | Lawrence Jameson | |
| Movie | 1944 | The Way Ahead | Lieutenant Jim Perry | |
| Movie | 1939 | Bachelor Mother | David Merlin | |
| Movie | 1979 | Escape to Athena | Professor Blake | |
| Movie | 1983 | Curse of the Pink Panther | Sir Charles Litton | |
| Movie | 1977 | Candleshoe | Priory | |
| Movie | 1954 | The Love Lottery | Rex Allerton | |
| Movie | 1958 | Separate Tables | David Angus Pollock | |
| Movie | 1954 | Carrington V.C. | Major Charles Carrington | |
| Movie | 1947 | The Perfect Marriage | Dale Williams | |
| Movie | 1944 | United States | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim | |
| Movie | 1936 | Beloved Enemy | Captain Gerald Preston | |
| Movie | 1936 | Rose Marie | Teddy | |
| Movie | 1936 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Captain Randall | |
| Movie | 1942 | The First of the Few | Geoffrey Crisp | |
| Movie | 1938 | The Dawn Patrol | Lt. Scott | |
| Movie | 1961 | The Best of Enemies | Maj. Richardson | |
| Movie | 1980 | Rough Cut | Chief Insp. Cyril Willis | |
| Movie | 1960 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Larry Mackay | |
| Movie | 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Henry Brougham | |
| Movie | 1957 | My Man Godfrey | Godfrey Smith | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Sea Wolves | Col. W.H. Grice | |
| Movie | 1937 | Dinner at the Ritz | Paul de Brack | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Toast of New Orleans | Jacques Riboudeaux | |
| Movie | 1936 | Thank You, Jeeves! | Bertie Wooster | |
| Movie | 1953 | The Moon Is Blue | David Slater | |
| Movie | 1965 | Lady L | Dicky, Lord Lendale | |
| Movie | 1959 | Ask Any Girl | Miles Doughton | |
| Movie | 1939 | Eternally Yours | Tony "The Great Arturo" | |
| Movie | 1968 | Prudence and the Pill | Gerald Hardcastle | |
| Movie | 1959 | Happy Anniversary | Chris Walters | |
| Movie | 1974 | Vampira | Count Dracula | |
| Movie | 1955 | The King's Thief | James - Duke of Brampton | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Extraordinary Seaman | Lt. Commander John Finchhaven, R.N. | |
| Movie | 1957 | Oh, Men! Oh, Women! | Alan Coles | |
| Movie | 1951 | Appointment with Venus | Valentine Moreland | |
| Movie | 1980 | A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square | Ivan | |
| Movie | 1952 | The Lady Says No | Bill Shelby | |
| Movie | 1975 | Paper Tiger | 'Major' Walter Bradbury | |
| Movie | 1947 | The Other Love | Doctor Anthony Stanton | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1951 | Happy Go Lovely | B.G. Bruno | |
| Movie | 1939 | The Real Glory | Lieut. McCool | |
| Movie | 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | Christopher Leigh | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Many Faces of Dracula | Count Dracula (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1956 | The Birds and the Bees | Patrick Harris | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Little Hut | Henry Brittingham-Brett | |
| Movie | 1971 | The Statue | Alex Bolt | |
| Movie | 1939 | Raffles | A.J. Raffles | |
| Movie | 1950 | The Elusive Pimpernel | Percy "Scarlet Pimpernel" Blakeney | |
| Movie | 1951 | Soldiers Three | Capt. Pindenny | |
| Movie | 1969 | Before Winter Comes | Major Burnside | |
| Movie | 1949 | A Kiss for Corliss | Kenneth Marquis | |
| Movie | 1948 | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Prince Charles Edward Stuart | |
| Movie | 1949 | A Kiss in the Dark | Eric Phillips | |
| Movie | 1946 | Magnificent Doll | Aaron Burr | |
| Movie | 1935 | A Feather in Her Hat | Leo Cartwright | |
| Movie | 1937 | We Have Our Moments | Joe Gilling | |
| Movie | 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Steve Harrington | |
| Movie | 1954 | Happy Ever After | Jasper O'Leary | |
| Movie | 1962 | Guns of Darkness | Tom Jordan | |
| Movie | 1972 | King, Queen, Knave | Charles Dreyer | |
| Movie | 1935 | Without Regret | Bill Gage | |
| Movie | 1936 | Palm Springs | George Britell | |
| Movie | 1962 | Conquered City | Major Peter Whitfield | |
| Movie | 1979 | ABBA in Switzerland | Self | |
| Movie | 1935 | Barbary Coast | Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1935 | Splendor | Clancey Lorrimore | |
| Movie | 1979 | A Man Called Intrepid | Sir William Stephenson | |
| Movie | 1983 | Better Late Than Never | Nick Cartland | |
| Movie | 2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1932 | There Goes the Bride | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2024 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1995 | Roger Moore: A Matter of Class | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1971 | Scotland Yard - the Golden Thread | Host | |
| Movie | 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Canterville Ghost | Sir Simon de Canterville | |
| Movie | 1949 | Breakdowns of 1949 | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1936 | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | |
| Movie | 1978 | Formula 1 - Speed fever | Self | |
| Movie | 1956 | The Silken Affair | Roger Tweakham | |
| Movie | 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1975 | The Remarkable Rocket | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1966 | All Eyes on Sharon Tate | Self - Interviewee | |
| Movie | 1963 | The Shortest Day | Soldato inglese (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1934 | Cleopatra | Slave (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1974 | Gorilla | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1958 | The All-Star Christmas Show | ||
| Movie | 1967 | Lionpower from MGM | ||
| TV Show | 1963 | Burke's Law | Harvey Cleeve | 1 |
| TV Show | 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1957 | Alcoa Theatre | Mark Garron | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | The Rogues | Alec Fleming | 30 |
| TV Show | 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Sheffield | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Allen Raikes | 1 |
| TV Show | 1950 | The Jack Benny Program | David Niven | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The David Niven Show | Self - Host | 13 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Goodyear Theatre | Jeff Carleton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1953 | The Oscars | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Marcus Dodds | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Alcoa Theatre | Paul Evans | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Alcoa Theatre | Robert Medhill | 1 |
| TV Show | 1950 | The Bob Hope Show | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Alcoa Theatre | Paul Martel | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | The Star and the Story | Johnny | 1 |
| TV Show | 1950 | The Jack Benny Program | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Milo Brant | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Doctor | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | William Langford | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mitch | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Phil Weston | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Bingham | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Steve Carlyle / Roger Carlyle | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Doctor Gentry | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Ted Parker | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Andy | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Richard Lilliam | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Andy Fields | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | John | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Royal Thurston | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Hal Winters | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Tony Stewart | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | George | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Deacon | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Charles | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Henry | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Wyeth | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Uncle Fred | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Cookie | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Adams | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Maxwell | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Philip | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Larkin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Frank | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | David | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Jim Kenyon | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Ted | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Lee | 1 |
| TV Show | 1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Dick Powell Show | Self / Host | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Dinah! | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Alcoa Theatre | Jeff Carleton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | 2 |
| TV Show | 1950 | What's My Line? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Panelist | 7 |
| TV Show | 1979 | A Man Called Intrepid | Sir William Stephenson | 3 |
| TV Show | 1949 | The BAFTA Awards | Host | 1 |
| TV Show | 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | 1 |
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| Movie | 1984 | The Night They Saved Christmas | Executive Producer | Production |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Producer | Production |
