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Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death .
It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story is original. Although the film is strongly pro-British, it is a satire on the British Army, especially its leadership.
Roger Livesey read the script and asked to play the role. Powell thought he was too old and portly but Livesey lost "ten or twelve pounds" (four or five kilos) and lightened his hair; Powell was convinced. [9] Livesey was appearing in a West End play, Peter Ustinov's The Banbury Nose, during the shoot, and was unable to go on location. [10]
A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during World War II.. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring.
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Her second marriage was to an actor Roger Livesey from 1937 until her death. [9] (Livesey's sister Maggie was already married to Desmond Jeans.) She appeared in one film with Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). [10] She entertained troops with ENSA during World War II, sometimes working with her husband.