Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, he is best remembered for adapting the works of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward, and for his large scale period epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, he is best remembered for adapting the works of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward, and for his large scale period epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
Acclaimed and praised by directors such as Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, winning twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five).
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Filmography (Movies)
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:15/02/2020
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:19/10/2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:27/02/2019
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/12/2017
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
Character:Self (Archive Footage)
Release Date:04/05/2010
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/04/2001
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Character:himself
Release Date:31/12/1979
David Lean: A Self Portrait
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1971
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1970
Pasternak
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:31/12/1965
Moscow in Madrid
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1965
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1965
Wind Sand and Star
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Release Date:31/12/1963
Lawrence of Arabia
Character:Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
Release Date:11/12/1962
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1958
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