Derek Nimmo of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series "The World of Wooster" (as "Bingo Little"), and in the comedy film "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film "Casino Royale". Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters" (1966). At the time it was considered rather controversial because the main characters were senior churchmen (the Bishop, his chaplain Noote and the Archdeacon) who got into various scrapes as a result of
Mervyn Cowie financial director. Cowie wrote the books "Fly Vulture" (1961), "I Walk with Lions" (1964), and "African Lion" (1965). The 1951 British-made film "Where No Vultures Fly" (renamed "Ivory Hunter" in the United States) was a fictionalised account of Cowie's work. Mervyn Cowie Mervyn Hugh Cowie CBE (13 April 1909 – 19 July 1996) was a conservationist who pioneered wildlife protection and the development of tourism throughout East Africa. Cowie was a descendant of Scottish farmers who migrated to South Africa. Cowie's father resigned as Chief Magistrate of Johannesburg, South Africa to settle in Kenya. Cowie was born in Nairobi on