1909-1983. Scottish-born US film actor. He
went to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he made
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936,
Bachelor Mother 1939, and Wuthering Heights
1939 before serving as a British officer in
World War II. When he returned to Hollywood
he starred in Around the World in Eighty Days
1956, Separate Tables 1958 (Academy Award),
The Guns of Navarone 1961, and The Pink
Panther 1964. He published two best-selling
volumes of autobiography, The Moon's a
Balloon 1972 and Bring on the Empty Horses
1975.