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  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
David Niven

(1910–83)
Actor who spent much of his career portraying a quintessentially elegant, tall, sardonic Englishman. Such a stereotype was seen at its best in such films as A Matter of Life and Death (1945), but his ability to act more complex roles was recognized by his Oscar as the self-deluding army officer in Separate Tables (1958). His way with an anecdote made a great success of his two volumes of memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon 1971, Bring on the Empty Horses 1975). He was born in London – a fact not worth mentioning except that the Hollywood publicity machine has slipped into the reference books a more romantic Scottish place of birth, Kirriemuir.
 








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