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David Lean
Biography
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
Lawrence of Arabia
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
as Self (archive footage)
Pasternak
as Himself
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
