Richard Maximilian Ney (November 12, 1916 â€" July 18, 2004) was an
American actor, author, and investment counselor.Ney was born in New
York City, the son of Erwin Maximilian Ney (1893-1968), an insurance
salesman, and Charlotte Marie Donaldson (born 1895), who served in
World War I as yeoman, first class, USNRF. Later she was a
stenographer and a secretary at a lumberyard.His parents' marriage
ended in divorce and he grew up with his mother in humble
circumstances. His father remarried twice. His father's third wife was
Rebie Margaret Flood, a daughter of Rev. Theodore L. Flood, editor of
The Chautauquan, and his wife, Ruth Crosley Pardington, daughter of
Arthur Rayner Pardington.A graduate in economics from Columbia
University, Ney is best remembered for his role in the Oscar-winning
World War II film Mrs. Miniver (1942), and for his short-lived
(1943â€"47) marriage to co-star Greer Garson. He also appeared in Ivy
(1947) and The Fan (1949). He was commissioned in the United States
Navy serving in the Aleutians and the Pacific during World War II,
American actor, author, and investment counselor.Ney was born in New
York City, the son of Erwin Maximilian Ney (1893-1968), an insurance
salesman, and Charlotte Marie Donaldson (born 1895), who served in
World War I as yeoman, first class, USNRF. Later she was a
stenographer and a secretary at a lumberyard.His parents' marriage
ended in divorce and he grew up with his mother in humble
circumstances. His father remarried twice. His father's third wife was
Rebie Margaret Flood, a daughter of Rev. Theodore L. Flood, editor of
The Chautauquan, and his wife, Ruth Crosley Pardington, daughter of
Arthur Rayner Pardington.A graduate in economics from Columbia
University, Ney is best remembered for his role in the Oscar-winning
World War II film Mrs. Miniver (1942), and for his short-lived
(1943â€"47) marriage to co-star Greer Garson. He also appeared in Ivy
(1947) and The Fan (1949). He was commissioned in the United States
Navy serving in the Aleutians and the Pacific during World War II,
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