David Lean
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, best remembered for bringing Charles Dickens's novels to the screen with films such as Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), and for his big-screen 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. Lean has four films in the top eleven of the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Lean, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Mar 25, 1908 In Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 19
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Oscars 1953-03-19
- Latest Project:
- Movie Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World 2020-02-15
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2020-02-15 |
| Movie | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2019-02-27 |
| Movie | E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-19 |
| Movie | Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-02 |
| Series | Talking Pictures | Himself - Archive footage | 2013-01-05 |
| Movie | Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration | Self (Archive Footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-22 |
| Movie | The Making of Lawrence of Arabia | Self (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Wonder Boys | Student (uncredited) | 2000-02-22 |
| Movie | The South Bank Show: Noël Coward | Self (archival footage) | 1992-03-01 |
| Movie | The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio | Self | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | David Lean: A Life in Film | Self | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor | himself | 1979-12-31 |
| Series | The South Bank Show | Unknown | 1978-01-14 |
| Movie | David Lean: A Self Portrait | Self | 1971-01-01 |
| Movie | Moscow in Madrid | Self | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean | Self | 1965-01-01 |
| Movie | Lawrence of Arabia | Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited) | 1962-12-11 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |