Niven died on the same day as Raymond Massey, his co-star in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter of Life and Death.

David Niven was attached to the role but died before filming began.

Some of the characters are also found in The Ringworld Engineers, as early on in this book Niven tells us that relatively few of the hominids died when Louis Wu and the Hindmost restabilised the ring at the end of the previous book.

's formation was not the result of scouting by a talent agency or a series of auditions-instead, these Tampa teenagers-Lauren Mayhew, Ashley Niven, Lydia Bell, Tracy Williams-had all been childhood friends.

As a result, he was approached by actor David Niven in May 1944.

Niven was in the early stages of ALS and his voice subsequently proved too weak for looping.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.

A character based on Ackerman, and his " Ackermansion ", appears in the Niven / Pournelle collaboration Fallen Angels.

Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.

The original release of Magic: The Gathering paid homage to Larry Niven on a card called " Nevinyrral's Disk ," with Nevinyrral being " Larry Niven " spelled backwards.

Niven was an adviser to Ronald Reagan on the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative anti missile policy, as covered in the BBC documentary Pandora's Box by Adam Curtis.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

" While praising the novel generally, he faulted Niven for relying on inconsistencies regarding evolution in his extrapolations to support his fictional premises.

Similarities to Ringworld have been noted in the game, and Niven was asked ( but declined ) to write the first novel based on the series.

The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available.

* The Ringworld Role-Playing Game: A Re-appraisal From Other Reviews on " Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven " fan site

A 2009 biography of actor David Niven had assertions, based on information from his widow and a good friend of Niven's, that he too had had an affair with the princess.

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is " Laurence van Cott Niven ".

* The Man-Kzin Wars: A shared universe based on the Kzinti Conflicts in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, featuring writers personally selected by Niven

Niven requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Black Watch ; then jokingly wrote on the form, as his third choice, " anything but the Highland Light Infantry " ( because the HLI wore tartan trews rather than kilts ).

While crossing the Atlantic, Niven resigned his commission by telegram on 6 September 1933.

After Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, Niven returned home and rejoined the Army.

Niven was re-commissioned as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 25 February 1940, and was assigned to a motor training battalion.

Ustinov later appeared with Niven in Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

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 which drew on his experiences during the war and in Hollywood.

While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.

James David Graham Niven ( 1 March 1910-29 July 1983 ), known professionally as David Niven, was an English actor and novelist, popular both in Europe and the US.

In July 1982, Blake Edwards brought Niven back for cameo appearances in two final " Pink Panther " films ( Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther ), reprising his role as Sir Charles Lytton.

* 1910 – David Niven, English actor ( d. 1983 )

** David Niven, English actor ( d. 1983 )

In February 1983, using a false name to avoid publicity, Niven was hospitalised for ten days, ostensibly for a digestive problem.

*" A Teardrop Falls ," Larry Niven, ( ss ) Omni June 1983

The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by Larry Niven ( first published as a serial in Analog in 1983 ).

When David Niven proved too ill for his voice to be used in his appearances in Trail of the Pink Panther ( 1982 ) and Curse of the Pink Panther ( 1983 ), Little provided the overdub.

Dr. Colin Niven, a graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford, was Principal of Island School between 1983 – 1988.

Guest stars included Eddie Albert, Richard Anderson, Delta Burke, Darlene Carr, Michael Constantine, Olivia d ' Abo, Patti Davis, Gene Evans, Fionnula Flanagan, Kathy Garver, Clarence Gilyard, Don Gordon, Don Grady, Kevin Hagen, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert Lansing, Kay Lenz, Anne Lockhart, Gary Lockwood, Joe Mantegna, Eve McVeagh, Kip Niven, John M. Pickard ( his last two acting appearances ), Tom Simcox, Olan Soule, Guy Stockwell, Linnea Quigley, Robert Totten, Harry Townes, Ray Walston, Vanna White, Stuart Whitman and James Whitmore, Jr. John Vivyan made his last screen appearance on Simon and Simon before his death in 1983.

* David Niven ( 1909 – 1983 )

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

Larry Niven at Utopiales | Les Utopiales in 2010

Niven demonstrated this, to his own satisfaction, with Safe at Any Speed.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

Thornton Wilder's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, was Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, a noted poet, and foundational to the development of the field theopoetics.

Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Niven suffered many instances of corporal punishment owing to his inclination for pranks, which finally led to his expulsion from Heatherdown at the age of 10½.

Niven later wrote, " How he did this, I shall never know, but he made every single boy at that school feel that what he said and what he did were of real importance to the headmaster ".

When Niven presented himself at Central Casting, he learned that he needed a work permit to reside and work in the U. S. This meant that Niven had to leave the U. S., so he went to Mexico, where he worked as a " gun-man ", cleaning and polishing the rifles of visiting American hunters.

Niven was posted at one time to Chilham in Kent.

Niven first met Churchill at a dinner party in February 1940.

In 1955 renowned British photographer Cornel Lucas photographed Niven while filming at the Rank Film Studio in Denham, Buckinghamshire.

Throughout the 1970s, Niven spent much of his time at his home in Chateau d ' Oex in Switzerland, near the ski resort of Gstaad.

" John Mortimer speaking at Niven's memorial service, quoted by Niven biographer Graham Lord.

" TrantorCon 23309 " was proposed by Larry Niven at Worldcon in 1976.

Other actors noted Colbert's comic timing ; David Niven related in his biography that Gary Cooper was " terrified " at the prospect of working with Colbert in his first comedy, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, because he considered Colbert to be an expert in the genre.

Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish, Dutch and Scottish ancestry, and baptised on 30 October at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn.

During the 1950s the British photographer Cornel Lucas set up the Pool Studio at Pinewood Studios where he photographed many of the movie stars of this era of cinema, such as Marlene Dietrich and David Niven.

Larry Niven and Robert J. Sawyer have each been nominated eight times, but have only won once, while Robert Silverberg has the most number of nominations without winning at nine.

Opel's run across the stage occurred with Niven mostly between him and the camera, so nothing below the waist was visible to the TV audience ; a brief blurred view of Opel's genitalia at the edge of the frame was obscured by the overscan on most contemporary TV sets.