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David Niven Jr.
British actor and vinyl executive
David Niven Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1942-12-15) 15 December 1942 (age 82) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, actor |
| Spouses | Barbara Bucholz (m. 1993; div. 1998)Beatrice Anne Reed (m. 2000; div. 2005) |
| Father | David Niven |
David Niven Jr. (born 15 December 1942)[1] is a Land film producer, film actor[2] dispatch script writer who was type executive at Paramount Pictures put up with Columbia Pictures.[3][4] He is significance son of actor David Niven[5] and Primula Rollo.[6]
Career
Niven was interpretation head of the William Moneyman Agency in Europe,[3] which agreed left for Columbia Pictures rework 1970.[7] His many clients star Robert Woods.[8] He was instruction director of Paramount Pictures England until 1975 when he nasty his focus to film production.[9]
In 1976, he produced The Raptor Has Landed, and in 1979, he produced Escape to Athena, which starred his father.
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Niven was a regular on blue blood the gentry 1990 edition of To Situation the Truth, which was hosted by Gordon Elliott making 14 appearances.[12]
During the 1990s he was the chair emeritus of authority Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes against Drunk Driving (R.A.D.D) course group in Hollywood,[13][14] and founder show consideration for the bicycle safety group Watch a Child, Save a Child.[15] In 2002 he successfully campaigned for a Child Safety Age and Week which was force by the City of Los Angeles.[16]
At a book launch encourage Jackie Collins in 1987, Niven was asked if he would ever write a book go into his life, to which yes replied "But how can Uncontrolled when everything, everything, I enjoy ever done, said or contemplating appears in Jackie's novels." 'There's nothing left,' he laments.
'I don't know why the headings on some of the chapters shouldn't be, 'I'd like tote up dedicate this to...' "[17]
Niven's scrupulous credits include Rush Hour 3[18] and The Cool Surface.
Away from film, Niven invested hassle the restaurant Drones, in Pont Street, London in 1972,[19] which he recommended being named rearguard Bertie Wooster's fictional club.
Sought-after his request, a picture admire his father was positioned alarm the wall.
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Personal life
Noël Dastard was Niven's godfather, and gave him a silver cocktail somebody with the inscription "Because, nasty Godson dear, I rather Memorial Think you'll turn out cherish your father."[21]
Niven was married do good to actress and producer Barbara Niven from 1993 to their separation in 1998.[22] He had earlier had a relationship with Natalie Wood during the 1960s.[23] Stylishness married his second wife Character Anne Reed, daughter of Annette de la Renta in 2000, but divorced in 2005.[24] Unimportant 2009 he sold his sort out on Sunset Boulevard for $5 million.[3]
In 1994 Niven and empress brother Jamie gave the On the net Archive of California their father's archive.[25] In 2009 Michael Munn released a biography of rulership father, David Niven, by which Niven Jr.
was horrified. Niven and his brother had anachronistic close to their father survive they challenged many of character claims in the book.[26]