" Goddamn doctor ," Bogart later told David Niven, " instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up.

However, Niven later invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the Man-Kzin Wars as their setting.

Information from the RPG, along with notes composed by RPG author Hewitt with Niven, were later used to form the " Bible " given to authors writing in the Man-Kzin Wars series.

McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but ideas drawn from them were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman and Dean Koontz.

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 ".

After being placed under close arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him: Rhoddy Rose ( later Colonel R. L. C.

Niven later claimed credit for bringing future Major General Sir Robert Laycock to the Commandos.

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

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

In 1960, while filming Please Don't Eat the Daisies with Doris Day, Niven and Hjördis separated for a few weeks, though they later reconciled.

Niven is either inconsistent about the actual size of a Thrint, or supposes a wide degree of variation among them: in World of Ptavvs, the character Kzanol is about half the height of a human, whereas later stories portray Thrintun as about 8 feet high.

Asked later by Czukay what he had thought of the music, Niven replied: " It was great, but I didn't know it was music.

Known Space is a fictional universe created by Larry Niven, and later used by a number of authors.

The Magic Goes Away is a fantasy short story written by Larry Niven in 1976, and later expanded to a novella of the same name which was published in 1978.

After leaving Island School Dr. Niven became a fellow at Westminster College, Oxford and later the Principal at the prestigious Alleyn's School in London.

The events which impelled Brennan to this action are those narrated in How the Heroes Die and At the Bottom of a Hole, two short 1966 stories which Niven originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction and later collected in Inconstant Moon.

The film also features the return of the character Sir Charles Lytton ( the notorious Phantom ), now played by Christopher Plummer rather than David Niven, who was unavailable but would later return for Trail of the Pink Panther.

In the summer of 1946, Welles was directing a musical stage version of Around the World in Eighty Days, with a comedic and ironic rewriting of the Jules Verne novel by Welles, incidental music and songs by Cole Porter, and production by Mike Todd, who would later produce the successful film version with David Niven.

The actor David Niven later claimed that he had introduced Laycock to the Commandos, as Laycock was related to his wife Primula Susan Rollo.

Speaker-to-Animals ( or later Chmeee ) is a fictional character in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.

" Because the later movies were identified so closely with Clouseau, it's easy to forget that he was merely one in an ensemble at first, sharing screen time with Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner, and Claudia Cardinale.

The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day and David Niven.

Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for TV.

Niven appeared in 19 films in the next four years.

Niven subsequently appeared in another thirty films.

While Niven was co-hosting the 46th Annual Oscars ceremony, a naked man appeared behind him, " streaking " across the stage.

Several well-known writers sold their first story to If ; the most successful was Larry Niven, whose story " The Coldest Place " appeared in the December 1964 issue.

He then appeared in Where the Spies Are, a comedy adventure film directed by Val Guest, which starred David Niven and Françoise Dorléac.

The Kzinti also appeared, along with allusions to slavers and stasis boxes, in The Slaver Weapon, an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series written by Niven, as a proud and carnivorous species.

" Later, evidence arose suggesting that Opel's appearance was facilitated as a publicity stunt by the show's producer Jack Haley, Jr. Robert Metzler, the show's business manager, believed that the incident had been planned in some way ; during the dress rehearsal Niven had asked Metzler's wife to borrow a pen so he could write down the famous line, which was thus not the ad-lib it appeared to be.

The Pak first appeared in " The Adults ," which appeared in Galaxy in 1967 ; this story was expanded into the novel Protector by Larry Niven ( 1973 ).

He also played the role of Dr. Gibson in the 1999 production of Wives and Daughters, and appeared in the 2008 BBC production of the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit as Mr. Meagles, as DS Box in the first series of Criminal Justice ( 2008 ), and as Dr. James Niven in Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen in 2009.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

The film stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney ( aka The Scarlet Pimpernel ), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote.

During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, ( David Niven ), who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French noblemen from the guillotine and take them across the English Channel to safety.

* David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Niven moved to New York City, where he began an unsuccessful career in whisky sales and horse rodeo promotion in Atlantic City.

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.

At the start of the series she has no friends and has just moved to New York city, where she is living with her foster parents George ( old friend of Tom Moore ) and Ella Niven.

* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.

His script for Rough Cut ( 1980 ), a caper film starring Burt Reynolds and David Niven, was credited under the pseudonym Francis Burns.

* Where the Spies Are ( 1965 ), adventure-comedy with David Niven.

* Larry Niven featured humanoid Martians with a primitive material culture inhabiting an environment of red dust and salpetric acid, most notably in Protector ( 1973 ), which also includes their genocide.

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.

However, Niven won a Golden Globe Award for his work in The Moon Is Blue ( 1953 ), produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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.

After a whirlwind two-week romance in 1940, Niven married Primula Susan Rollo ( 18 February 1918, London – 21 May 1946, Beverly Hills, California ), the aristocratic daughter of a British lawyer.

In 1948, Niven met Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden ( née Genberg, 1919 – 1997 ), a divorced Swedish fashion model.

* Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 film ), a 1948 film starring David Niven

* ARM ( novella ), a novella by Larry Niven

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

He went on to appear in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ) with David Niven, Dodge City ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ) and Adventures of Don Juan ( 1948 ).

Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ) is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers ( in a mostly non-dancing and non-singing role ), David Niven, and Charles Coburn.

David Merlin ( David Niven ), the playboy son of the store's owner, J. B. Merlin ( Charles Coburn ), is sympathetic to the " unwed mother " and arranges for her to get her job back.

Apart from leads in several French films such as Max Ophüls ' The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953, again with Danielle Darrieux ) and Nana ( 1955, opposite Martine Carol ), he also moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of Four Star Theatre ; Four Star Productions would make him and partners David Niven and Dick Powell rich.

His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde ( born in Perry Barr, Birmingham ; 1892 – 1972 ), was the art editor of The Times and his mother, Margaret Niven ( 1898 – 1980 ), was a former actress.

* Casino Royale ( 1967 film ), a James Bond film parody starring David Niven and Peter Sellers