David Lean

David Lean

Known For: Directing

Date Of Birth:1908-03-25

Place Of Birth:Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

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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The Secret of the Loch
Dreaming Lips
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Brief Encounter
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
In Which We Serve
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
A Passage to India
Ryan's Daughter
As You Like It
Hobson's Choice
Madeleine
Blithe Spirit
Summertime
Summertime
This Happy Breed
The Passionate Friends
The Sound Barrier
The Passionate Friends
French Without Tears
Major Barbara
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Dangerous Ground
The Fortunate Fool
Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice
The Ghost Camera
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Money for Speed
Song of the Plough
Escape Me Never
The Crouching Beast
Brief Encounter
The Night Porter
These Charming People
Tiger Bay
Ball at Savoy
49th Parallel
The Greatest Story Ever Told
A Passage to India
A Passage to India
Spy for a Day
The Sound Barrier
Pygmalion
This Happy Breed
Blithe Spirit
Spies of the Air
Insult