A reviewer of Lord's book stated that Lord's photographic evidence showing a strong physical resemblance between Niven and Comyn-Platt " would appear to confirm these theories, though photographs can often be misleading.

However, Niven also erroneously stated that there were no German troops on Sark at the time.

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.

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.

Other writers include Larry Niven who wrote for Land of the Lost.

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.

Tate played Odile, a witch who exerts a mysterious power over a landowner, played by Niven, and his wife, played by Kerr.

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 explained in his autobiography that there was no military way that he, as a lieutenant-colonel, and Ustinov, who was only a private, could associate, except as an officer and his subordinate, hence their strange " act ".

Niven also had special scorn for the newspaper columnists covering the war who typed out self-glorifying and excessively florid prose about their meagre wartime experiences.

Niven had a long and complex relationship with Goldwyn, who gave him his first start.

Niven played Alexander ' Alec ' Fleming, one of a family of retired con artists who now fleece villains in the interests of justice.

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.

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.

In the novel Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Phlegethon is guarded not by centaurs, but by military officers taken from all eras of history ( with instructions to shoot anyone who tries to escape ).

The Bishop's Wife ( 1947 ) is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.

The Bubbleworld concept was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in his fictional Known Space stories, describing such worlds as the primary habitats of the Belters, a civilization who had colonized the Asteroid Belt.

That was the same day as the death of David Niven, who had co-starred with him in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter of Life and Death.

* The 1969 French film The Brain stars David Niven as a British master criminal who perpetrates in France a heist based on the Train Robbery.

MacLaine played a Hindu princess who is rescued by, and falls in love with, original Rat Pack member David Niven, and Sinatra had a non-speaking, non-singing role as a piano player in a saloon, whose identity is concealed from the viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring Marlene Dietrich and George Raft.

Preminger cast David Niven over the objection of studio executives, who felt the actor's career was in a decline.

The actor David Niven was amongst the crowd who remained to hear what Can and Damo would do next.

During the planning stage, Durnford-Slater went to London where he worked out most of the details with David Niven, who was then serving as a staff officer in the Combined Operations Headquarters.

The writers who have acknowledged his assistance include Anne McCaffrey for the Dragonriders of Pern ; Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes for their Legacy of Heorot ; James White of Sector General fame ; David Gerrold for the Chtorr ecology ; and Terry Pratchett for several works.

David Niven, who participated in Channel raids, states in his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon that the commandos who landed on Sark were taken to the local pub by the locals for a drink.

" 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.

Niven says there will not be more stories from this time: " Stories about infinitely lucky people tend to be dull.

In the introduction to the novel, Niven says that he never planned to write more than one Ringworld novel, but that he did so, in a large part, due to fan support.

In the novel's introduction, Niven says that MIT students attending the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention chanted, " The Ringworld is unstable!

" Niven says that one reason he wrote The Ringworld Engineers was to address these engineering problems.

: Niven himself wrote little about the Man-Kzin Wars, although many of his stories refer to them having taken place in the past.

Other occasional visitors in the past include Margaret Thatcher, actors David Niven and Peter Sellers, as well as King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, and Abdel Salam Jalloud.

* 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.

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.

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story " The Soft Weapon ".

Niven has also written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called Mana to power a rule-based " technological " magic.

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.

" Ringworld ", or more formally, " Niven ring ", has become a generic term for such a structure, which is an example of what science fiction fans call a " Big Dumb Object ", or more formally a megastructure.

Graham Lord, in NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven, suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. Niven had been having an affair for some time before her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been David Niven's biological father, a supposition which has some support from her children.

For example, Larry Niven's fictional universe Known Space has an approximately 135 year period in which Niven allows other authors to write stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.

In 1990 the John Niven Further Education College was built on Academy Street in the town, it has since been absorbed into the Dumfries and Galloway College.

It has been called a " preconsideration " of Discworld, though the plot and characters are modelled on ( or parodies of ) the novel Ringworld by Larry 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.

Harlan Ellison has received the most Hugos for Best Short Story at four, and Larry Niven, Mike Resnick, Michael Swanwick, and Connie Willis have each won three times, the only other authors to win more than once.

A junior staffer, Walter Russell ( Niven ), at the California Seismological Institute has calculated that Los Angeles will suffer a major earthquake in the next day or two.

The book, still his best known, has since won the Saltire Society Book of the Year and David Niven awards, and has become a cult classic.

As with most Man-Kzin Wars material, its canonicity has not been confirmed by Niven.

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.

While Lavin has no biological children, she is the stepmother to Niven's children Jim and Kate Niven and the grandmother to Jim's sons Grayson and Talen.

Duigan told film critic Stephen Farber what drew him to cast Grant: " Hugh has the capacity to be a terrific player of light comedy, in the tradition of Cary Grant and David Niven.

Major Charles ' Copper ' Carrington ( David Niven ), who has had a distinguished World War II record and was awarded the Victoria Cross, is arrested for embezzling £ 125 from his unit's safe.

Niven has described the problems that such a character and such a trait pose to his story and to his fictional universe.

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.