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Niven and acting
She received good reviews for her acting in Separate Tables ( 1958 ), with Burt Lancaster and David Niven, and The Story on Page One ( 1960 ) with Anthony Franciosa.
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.

Niven and career
Over the course of his career Niven has added to this first law a list of Niven's Laws which he describes as " how the Universe works " as far as he can tell.
Niven moved to New York City, where he began an unsuccessful career in whisky sales and horse rodeo promotion in Atlantic City.
Preminger cast David Niven over the objection of studio executives, who felt the actor's career was in a decline.
He continued to take minor parts in films and would go onto appear alongside actors including Sean Connery, David Niven and Douglas Fairbanks Jr during his career.
Other actors she befriended during her career were Joseph Cotten, David Niven, Ray Milland, Marie McDonald, and especially Jeanne Crain.
A long career in TV followed seeing him play a wide variety of characters including ' Marcus Bannerman ' in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999 ; ' Joseph Bazalgette ' the great Victorian industrial engineer in the award winning factual drama / doc Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002 ; and ' Tom Crean ' the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh ; and ' Niven Craig ' in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It.

Niven and after
In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, " You look like a goddamn rat pack.
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 ).
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.
The world is described in a series of novels by Niven, Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, and, after the game's publication, The Ringworld Throne and Ringworld's Children.
Niven took part in the Invasion of Normandy, although he was sent to France several days after D-Day.
I found it where they told me I would, but it was among 27, 000 others, and I told myself that here, Niven, were 27, 000 reasons why you should keep your mouth shut after the war.
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.
Wasco is featured in the book Lucifer's Hammer written by Larry Niven, which is about the end of the world after a comet hits the earth.
The Heorot series by Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is named after the hall.
** 12513 Niven, asteroid named after Ivan M. Niven
** Niven's laws, named after Larry Niven
In 1952, Lupino was invited to become the " fourth star " in Four Star Productions by Dick Powell, David Niven and Charles Boyer, after Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell had dropped out of the company.
Squadron Leader Peter Carter ( David Niven ) is a British Royal Air Force pilot trying to fly a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber home after a mission over Germany on 2 May 1945.
Niven has written that he invented the Protectors as a thought experiment to explain the common effects of aging on humans and to create a fictional evolutionary explanation for humans ' long lives after females have passed reproductive age.
Niven numbers, Niven's constant, and Niven's theorem are named in his honor ; also, in 2000, the asteroid 12513 Niven, discovered in 1998, was named after him.
Alan Niven bailed out soon after.
Niven ’ s laws were named after science fiction author Larry Niven, who has periodically published them as " how the Universe works " as far as he can tell.
George Niven goes into a deep depression after Ella Niven is murdered.
George Niven is eventually killed by Loki, after Loki decides George has nothing else to offer.

Niven and was
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.
C. L. Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon, and was a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership including Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad.
Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
Hawks developed the script with Seton Miller for their eighth and final collaboration and the script was by Miller, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Niven Busch.
" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.
The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.
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 bible for Green Lantern was written by Niven.
When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.
According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.
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.
The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.
The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".
Niven was " endlessly teased " about this error, which he corrected in subsequent printings to show Wu teleporting westward.
Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages.
Similarities to Ringworld have been noted in the game, and Niven was asked ( but declined ) to write the first novel based on the series.
In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

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