In 1959, he became the host of his own TV drama series, The David Niven Show, which ran for 13 episodes that summer. Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for television.With an Academy Award to his credit, Niven's career continued to thrive. He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar.
(1955) before scoring a big success as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's production of Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Niven later appeared in The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), The Toast of New Orleans (1950), Happy Go Lovely (1951), Happy Ever After (1954) and Carrington V.C. He was working on a third novel when his health failed in 1983.Īming his many movies he appeared in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), and Enchantment (1948), all of which received critical acclaim. In 1981, Niven published a second and much more successful novel, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly, which was set during and after World War II, and drew on his experiences during the war and in Hollywood. It now appears that Niven recounted many incidents from a first person perspective which actually happened to other people, and which he borrowed and embroidered. He followed this with Bring On the Empty Horses in 1975, a collection of highly entertaining reminiscences from Hollywood's "Golden Age" in the 1940s. In 1971, he published his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, which was well-received, selling over five million copies.
The first, Round the Rugged Rocks, was a novel which appeared in 1951 and was forgotten almost at once. James David Graham Niven, known as David Niven, was an Oscar winning English actor and novelist. It now appears that Niven recounted many incidents from a first person perspective which actually happened to other people, and which he borrow Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
0 kommentar(er)
