David Niven

Count_Lippe · Post by **Count_Lippe** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:44 pm

David Niven as 007?

Commander 0077 · Post by **Commander 0077** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:06 am

Enjoyable actor, but not exactly Bond. Too slim and too precise. He could make a nice British Felix Leiter-type, though.

Gary Seven · Post by **Gary Seven** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:30 am

Niven does look like a typical effette English gentleman, but he was surprisingly tough.

I think that he would have been fantastic in a late 1950's black & white Bond movie.

Count_Lippe · Post by **Count_Lippe** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:04 pm

I don't think Niven would have been a good Bond, sorry.

Have you seen The Guns of Navarone? Gregory Peck is more the Bond character in that film. Niven most definitely is not.

Post by **Kristatos** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:01 pm

Count_Lippe wrote:I don't think Niven would have been a good Bond, sorry.

Ian Fleming disagreed with you on that, I believe.

Count_Lippe · Post by **Count_Lippe** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:40 pm

Yes I know, but what do you think Kristatos?

Post by **Kristatos** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:34 pm

Count_Lippe wrote:Yes I know, but what do you think Kristatos?

Well, I'm loath to argue with Fleming, but I think his other choice, Richard Burton, would have been a much better idea. But then, when Russell Crowe, the Richard Burton of our age, was touted as a possible Bond, I was the one person who thought it was a good idea when every other Bond fan was up in arms, because they thought Crowe wasn't refined enough (!)

Count_Lippe · Post by **Count_Lippe** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:44 pm

Burton would have been better than Niven, he was really handsome in his younger days, and he played a tough agent in Where Eagles Dare when he was in his 40s.

But didn't he have a drinking problem? I don't think he was in the best health.

Post by **Kristatos** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:38 pm

Count_Lippe wrote:But didn't he have a drinking problem?

Burton didn't have any problem drinking (bdum-ching).