David Niven on How He May Have Introduced Water Skiing To California! | The Dick Cavett Show

David Niven discusses whether he thinks Hollywood has changed, how he and his former housemate Errol Flynn might have introduced waterskiing to California and being recast in a movie.
Date aired - November 25th 1981 - 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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[@TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favourite David Niven movie?

[@laurafradkoff660]

All of them

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

Pink Panther of course!

[@pizzaDhut]

A Matter of Life and Death

[@S0ngsyngr]

Enchantment

[@cynthiawilliams737]

We should treasure these interviews!!

[@MrVideovibes]

Niven was wonderful. We will never see his like again.

[@phmwu7368]

Water skiing started in 1922 ... but an interesting story told by Mr Niven !

[@bobpeckinpaugh2550]

The MND was showing up by this time. Fascinating man! One of the few who came to Errol Flynn's defense over the Higham lies.

[@jackwmith8445]

He died of ALC.

[@bobpeckinpaugh2550]

@@jackwmith8445 Same thing.

[@brainflash1]

It saddens me that there are people alive today who have never seen an Errol Flynn movie.

[@_Daniel_Plainview]

well sadly they are not available for everyone, maybe in USA, but not everywhere.

[@ukrandr]

To be sure, that is their misfortune. Flynn was magnificent. As a side note, though I'm sure many watching this interview already have, reading both of Nivens' books is a pure delight.

[@frantrictantric]

@@ukrandr Flynn's autobiography My Wicked Wicked Ways was a great read, and he never slagged anyone off that was dead being as they were in no way able to respond. Highly recommend it.

[@AndrewHeller-jn7dx]

Just as disconcerting, I must relay this small; equally poignant little anecdote:
I went to get a haircut, twice, in the past year, from 2 different hairstylists, at the same upper-level local salon. One was female; &, the other male. Both in their youthful years. The gal was in her mud, to late 30's; the male in his 40's. Both, were: American, Born; &, Raised: Natural U.S. Citizens, Native-1rst Language-English speakers, white, U.S. educated, U.S. born; &, raised; both middle class income earners: &, both: LGBT.
I showed them the photos of Flynn to copy the style on my head.
Both had absolutely: -->>NO idea who he was.

[@_Daniel_Plainview]

It's weird to think that Errol could have been alive during 1980s and 1990s

[@frantrictantric]

He lived 5 times as many lives as us.

[@twomindz79]

God among men.

[@gingin6246]

Hi. Errol who ?

[@S0ngsyngr]

@@gingin6246Errol Flynn

[@GoodmanMIke59]

1:58 Johnny Depp could play a real friend. There. Money.

[@Gannooch]

I do 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 rare much like all the other Dick Cavett interviews

[@faith2461]

Yes, I wish to see those same interviews and I few others. I’ve been hoping for a while now that’d they post Cavett’s interview with Peter O’Toole, although simultaneously, I’m not sure if that interview even exists to begin with.