Richard Ney

A Columbia University grad with an economics degree, Richard Ney was sidetracked into stage and films. For his movie debut, Ney was cast as Greer Garson's eldest son in the Oscar-winning Mrs. Miniver (1942).

He later married Garson, ten years his senior, accruing negative publicity during their 1947 divorce proceedings, when it was alleged that he had derided her for being old.

He played the second lead and the same character, Sgt. James Spenlow, in two separate European movies. The movies had a different star and some different actors, but they were based on the same novel and released in different years,the French version in 1950 and the Austrian in 1951.

One does not malign an icon like Greer Garson, and Ney suffered for the divorce with a series of inferior films made both in Hollywood and Europe, the nadir being 1953's horrendous Babes in Bagdad (1952).

Ney forsook acting for good in 1961 to become a prominent stock market analyst and financial consultant.

There were only two people who weren't allowed to be guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). One was Ralph Nader and the other was Richard. He was at one time a financial-advice show host.

Ney also appeared on television's The Outer Limits (1963), in the mid-Sixties, in the episode The Outer Limits: The Special One (1964).

When his first book, "The Wall Street Jungle", came out in 1970 it was on the New York Times best seller list for 11 months, yet it met major resistance. Not only would the New York Times not review the book, and the Wall Street Journal went so far as to refuse to take an ad from a New York bookstore that featured the book. Two other of his books were "The Wall Street Gang" (1974) and "Making It in the Market" (1975). He gained nationwide notice in 1962 for accurately predicting the stock market crash that year.