David Niven on Being Held Out Of A Window By His School Teacher | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Dick Cavett interviews Academy Award winner British actor David Niven about being thrown out of school and some of the misdeeds he undertook as a child.
Date aired - February 15th 1972 - David Niven
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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What's your favourite David Niven movie?
“Bonjour tristesse” 1958 , great movie, and “The Pink Panther”, naturally, since childhood ❤️👏
Guns of Navarone
Around the World in 80 days!
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
separate tables
David was just class personified, such an interesting man, his biography is the best biography I’ve ever read. Such a shame he left us so soon. I could listen to him for days, his voice was so relaxing to listen to
Yes, it was an awesome book. I am not a fan of actors, but I read it twice.
What a surprisingly adorable guy. I'd be surprised if anyone wasn't charmed immediately by him, I'm happy he had such an accomplished life.
One word for Niven? Elegant.His accent, his carriage, his humour, his features...all elegant.
His memoirs titled The Moon’s a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses are both excellent books. He was an interesting man. I would have liked to have known him.
Those books are great. After I read them I wished I could have met him. It wouldn't be bad being stuck in an elevator with him!
@@melizmatea Imagine being stuck in an elevator with David Niven, Peter Sellers and Erroll Flynn!
@@hodgod1056 Yes! But I'd like to add David Bowie in there, another funny, charming and intelligent Brit!
@@hodgod1056 ...and Peter O'Toole!!
@@melizmatea funny how?
He had a sad/difficult upbringing. He’s was so lovely as an adult.
Try looking for his guest appearances on 'Parkinson', in the late 1970's. It's well known that he embellished many of his stories,but he was universally well liked, and when he died, the porters at Heathrow Airport sent a wreath that read "to the finest gent who ever walked these halls". Popular with the British aristocracy, film people and also the humble working man, due to his habit of being gracious and charming with no real effort.
One of the best British actors of all time and an amazing story teller as well. I would watch absolutely anything he is in
What a character! I regret I never got to know him. The epitome of the words charming and of class!
He had the poshest, dreamiest voice! 😍 I love how his humor was always so witty and sarcastic
Thanks for uploading this, meant to watch this for ages!
Charming man Mister David Niven, exquisite gentlemen ❤️👌
What a gem of a guest; David Niven had such a varied and fascinating life...any talk-show interview nowadays just pales in comparison.
“The Moon’s A Balloon”
I have read many books and enjoyed most. The humour has amused me and the sad parts saddened me. Only this book had me literally laughing aloud at one extreme and tears on the other. A thoroughly enjoyable book. A fascinating man with an equally fascinating life. RIP Sir.
At last!
Have I been waiting close to 50 YEARS to see this interview again?
[Not edited....Please?]
I love David’s humor! Such a delightfully funny gent!
One of the schools he attended is now holiday accommodation on the South Coast of England, and I stay there most years. Ian Fleming attended the same school.....and the school's name was Spyway School. Fancy that !
my nieghbour in Canada was born in Mexico, as his father worked for "Intrepid"!
Such a charming intelligent man. A true gentleman.🎩
even though he used to wank hamsters
His first wife Primmie (Primula) died after falling into a basement (no stairs) while playing Sardines in the early forties. A real tragedy and it was so very stupid of the host not to warn the players = lock the door = something.
Late forties
Class.
I really loved that book. 😊
Love it
I would name four actors who excel in interviews: David Niven, Peter Ustinov, Roger Moore and Hugh Grant...and one errant wildcard for her honesty and (apparent) niaivety: Miriam Margolyes.
A True British Gentleman 🎩🍷
Do you have the entire show? Please post.
My father was sent to boarding at the age of seven and his housemates hung him out of the window by his braces (suspenders in AmEng). Don't remember from what floor but he said he'd been terrified. Told me as I was about to be sent to boarding school, and gave me advice on how to deal with it. I was, indeed, bullied but it didn't last long because I kept a stiff upper lip, didn't squeal, and didn't bear a grudge.
❤️
So was this around the time of the introduction of the lavalier mic on TV? Because it's apparently a novelty to Niven. The boom mic is certainly visible in these clips, yeesh.
The boom operator seems being a comedian as well :-D
When they really taught you things at school!
With great heights and a stick
I have got movie DVDS of
David Niven
with Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quayle James Darren Stanley Baker
and James Robertsons Justice in
The Guns Of Naverone
with Telly Savalas
Elliott Gould Stephanie Powers Anthony Valentine and Roger Moore
are both German Officers in
Escape To Athena
I am dedicating these movie DVDS
to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos around here.
I ave nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason? I don’t have Decades.
Niven was a walking talking anecdote ....
Well he DID get a Latin verb wrong...
Britain lost an entire generation of it's best and brightest in the war. Nivens' story makes sense: adults got jobs they NEVER would have had if the best and brightest hadn't been SLAUGHTERED in the first war. (The Road to Wigen Pier)
Would someone be so kind as to explain why David Niven opened his jacket like that a little bit when he walked on? Is it a reference or just a custom that went out of fashion?
Given that he then looked in Cavett's jacket and then opened the side of his own again and began speaking about the mic that Dick Cavett was wearing, I'd guess it was something to do with the mic itself.
You open the jacket when you're about to sit down. Standing you have it buttoned once. (That was the fashion at the time)
@@dianabot5513 Thank you Diana! Another thing learned today :)
5:39 What did he say?
His friend’s name. I think.
I think he cursed.
Bastards, maybe?
@@poolside123canadian7 the guy he mentions in all his pictures
My impression was that he said the name of the teacher and the tv lawyers advised it be snipped to avoid a potential lawsuit.
Why was he sent away at 6
To a boarding school where he received a sound British education, learned self-discipline and developed a strong sense of personal responsibility along with a passion to defend his Queen and country. Oh, also because his parents had no love or time for him. Still, it was better than aborting him.
This is how the British upper classes educated their children. It wasn’t at all unusual at the time.
Six was unusual. Ten or eleven was more typical.
@@majorlaff8682 It was an Edwardian or Victorian education.
@@kamuelalee With a touch of medieval from time to time.
aint davy great or what what