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A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during World War II.. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring.
James David Graham Niven (/ ˈ n ɪ v ən /; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983 [1] [2]) was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films. He received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
According to Sheridan Morley, Niven's other notable works include The Charge of the Light Brigade (1938), The Way Ahead (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (1946)—judged by the BFI to be one of the top twenty British films of all time [3] —The Guns of Navarone (1961) and the role of Sir Charles Litton in three Pink Panther films.
A Matter of Life and Death (Greek: Ζήτημα ζωής και θανάτου, Zitima Zois kai Thanatou), a 1972 film by Vagelis Serdaris, based on the novel by Yannis Maris A Matter of Life and Death , a 1981 television film starring Linda Lavin , based on the life of nurse and thanatologist Joy Ufema
The cast of The Rogues (1964) television series with Charles Boyer, Gig Young, David Niven, Robert Coote and Gladys Cooper. In 1956, Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (1956–62), which he reprised in the musical's 1976–77 Broadway revival.
Michael Trubshawe (7 December 1905 – 21 March 1985) [1] was a British actor and former officer in the Highland Light Infantry Regiment of the British Army.Trubshawe was very close friends with fellow British actor David Niven, serving with him at Malta and Dover.
In World War II London, a bold American servicewoman named Grizel Dane (Evelyn Keyes) pays a visit to her granduncle, aged General Sir Roland 'Rollo' Dane (David Niven), looking for a place to stay. Interspersed flashbacks reveal the history of the Dane family. The first takes place when Rollo (Peter Miles) is a child.
David Niven's flippant assurance is just right here. The real-life story is the more real for his imagined presence; he gives the rather abstracted film a body." [10] Mitchell's fatal illness is deliberately not specified in the film. Through dramatic licence, it is