David Lean
Born
March 25, 1908
Died
April 16, 1991 (83 years old)
Known For
Directing
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).
Known For
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Self (archive footage)
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Self (archive footage)
2017
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2013
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
Self (Archive Footage)
2010
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Self (archive footage)
2000
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
Self (archival footage)
1992
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
1985
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
himself
1979
The South Bank Show
Self · (1 episode)
1978
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (1 episode)
1973
David Lean: A Self Portrait
Self
1971
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
Self
1970
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1968
Omnibus
Self · (1 episode)
1967
Pasternak
Himself
1965
Moscow in Madrid
Self
1965
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
Self
1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Self
1965
Wind Sand and Star
1963
Lawrence of Arabia
Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
1962
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
1958
Epic – The Life & Times of David Lean
Self (archive footage)
Reflets de Cannes
Self · (1 episode)
1954
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
1953