Richard Ney: Richard Ney. Actor: Mrs. Miniver. 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, twelve years his senior and drawing criticism during their 1947 divorce proceedings, when it was alleged that he had derided her for being old. One does not...