David Niven

James Bond, all dressed up and everywhere to go

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Over the last half-century and 23 official James Bond films, Ian Fleming's super spy has been played by seven different actors under 11 different directors, with 17 different costume designers or wardrobe supervisors responsible for the look of agent...

Bob Anderson dies at 89; sword-fight teacher to the stars

2012-01-04 00:00:00

Ten days before Bob Anderson headed to the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki as part of the British fencing team, he responded to a call from a British film studio in need of three fencers to coach the lead actors for sword-fighting scenes in a new pirate...

Oscars history: Gorilla suit, a streaker, tardy hosts and more

2012-02-25 16:37:05

Timeline: Men and their grooming habits

2010-11-07 00:00:00

30,000 BC: Stone Age man begins using sharpened flint and seashells to scrape the hair from his body, inventing the morning shave. 1150 BC: Biblical hero Samson, whose feats of strength allegedly included slaying an entire army with the jawbone of an...

Samantha Harris sells Westwood home for $1.64 million

2009-12-19 00:00:00

"Dancing With the Stars" co-host and "The Insider" correspondent Samantha Harris and her husband, financial wholesaler Michael Hess, have sold their Westwood home for $1.64 million. Talk about a quickstep: The house had come on the market in late...

Leona Lewis leases home in Hollywood Hills

2009-06-20 00:00:00

You might say the "Spirit" led her to L.A. British singer Leona Lewis, whose album "Spirit" premiered in North America at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last year, is making her U.S. base of operations in the Hollywood Hills. That's where she has leased a...

David Niven Jr. sells Sunset Strip home for $5 million

2009-11-24 00:00:00

Update: Film and TV producer David Niven Jr. has sold his Sunset Strip-area home for $5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1967, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 6,600 square feet. There are...

David Niven Jr.'s Sunset Strip-area home for sale for $5.75 million

2009-06-01 00:00:00

The Sunset Strip-area home of film and TV producer David Niven Jr. has come on the market at $5.75 million. The contemporary Mediterranean has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 6,600 square feet. There are high ceilings, crown molding, skylights, a...

'127 Hours': Oscar time for James Franco and Danny Boyle?

2010-09-07 16:33:52

Arthur Marx dies at 89; writer son of Groucho

2011-04-15 00:00:00

Arthur Marx, a veteran television writer, playwright, celebrity biographer and memoirist who wrote extensively about an often fractious life with his father, comedic legend Groucho Marx, has died. He was 89 and died of natural causes Thursday at his Los...

PASSINGS: Arthur Bernard Lewis, Eugene S. Goodwin

2010-11-06 00:00:00

ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Writer, editor and producer on 'Dallas' Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, a veteran TV writer who wrote 69 episodes of "Dallas" and also served as executive story editor and supervising producer for the long-running CBS prime-time soap...

Roderick Mann dies at 87; former Times showbiz columnist

2010-09-18 00:00:00

Roderick Mann, a British-born show business writer who interviewed many of the world's biggest stars during a more than 40-year career that included serving as an entertainment columnist for the Los Angeles Times, died early Friday morning. He was 87....

German actor Hardy Krueger, right, is with British actor David Niven on the set of "Paper Tiger" at a military training area in Bavaria.

2012-11-21 18:34:00

The comic became an Academy Awards mainstay, hosting or co-hosting the Oscars 18 times from 1940 to 1978. In 1959, he led an eclectic group of hosts that included Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl. Hope, above, holds Loretta Young and his honorary Oscar in 1952.

2012-08-02 11:40:46

Peter Sellers , left, is hot on the trail of David Niven 's jewel thief in the Blake Edwards comedy.

2010-12-22 16:27:34