David Niven

It ran for 21 episodes. Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation and was voted the second most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars. ) Niven explained in his autobiography that there was no military way that he as a lieutenant-colonel and Ustinov who was only a private could associate except as an officer and his subordinate hence their strange "act".

He also began writing books with considerable commercial success. Niven had been married twice latterly to the model Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden. "the Phantom" in The Pink Panther.