Graham Lord, in Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven, suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. He was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey in the Special Memorial Section in Plot F. 10.ĭavid's mother Henrietta then married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt in London in 1917. William served in the Berkshire Yeomanry in the First World War and was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign on 21 August 1915. William Niven, David's father, was of Scottish descent his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, (1811–1884) was from St. Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874. Niven's grandfather William Degacher was killed in the Battle of Isandlwana (1879), during the Zulu War. She was born in Wales, the daughter of army officer William Degacher (1841–1879) by his marriage to Julia Caroline Smith, the daughter of Lieutenant General James Webber Smith. Henrietta was of French and British ancestry. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, in the Scottish county of Angus in 1909, but his birth certificate shows this was not the case.

James David Graham Niven was born in London to William Edward Graham Niven (1878–1915) and Henrietta Julia Degacher. He was the second actor to play the role in a film outside the EON Productions franchise.

He plays James Bond in the 1967 spoof Casino Royale, based on the novel of the same. David Niven (1910-1983) was a British actor.

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