David Niven along with a card that read: 'To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a porter feel like a king.'" In 1985, Niven was included in a series of British postage stamps, along with Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Sir Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and Vivien Leigh, to commemorate "British Film Year". David Niven James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in "A Matter of Life and Death", Phileas Fogg in "Around the World in 80 Days", and
A Matter of Life and Death (film) a Wonderful Life" (1946) and "Stairway to Heaven" (1946), perhaps tapping into so many people's experience of loss of loved ones and offering a kind of consolation." In December 2017, a digitally restored version was shown in British Cinemas. Kevin Maher, writing in "The Times", said the restoration was "crisp" whilst describing the film as being a "..definitive fantasy classic" and also as "essential viewing." The Academy Film Archive preserved "A Matter of Life and Death" in 1999. According to Powell in his "A Life in Movies", the United States was the only market in which the film's name was