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Description:Chancer,charmer and cheat,David Niven invented the persona of the perfect suave Englishman and played it for all it was worth as the great British matinee idol. He was more influential than any other British actor in creating the stereotype of a Hollywood Englishman,but in his complex private life he became a slave to the character he had created.