David Lean

Known for DirectingBorn 1908-03-25Died 1991-04-16Croydon, 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

Money for Speed

These Charming People

David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago

The Making of Lawrence of Arabia

The Crouching Beast

Sailors Don't Care

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

Lawrence of Arabia

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The King of Paris

Song of the Plough

Quinneys

Doctor Zhivago

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

Brief Encounter

Oliver Twist

Hobson's Choice

Omnibus

Dangerous Ground

Ryan's Daughter

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor

Great Expectations

A Passage to India

Moscow in Madrid

This Happy Breed

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream

The Oscars

The Dick Cavett Show

Blithe Spirit

Pygmalion

French Without Tears

49th Parallel

Dreaming Lips

Ball at Savoy

Madeleine

Summertime

The Passionate Friends

Talking Pictures

Insult

The Night Porter

Major Barbara

In Which We Serve

The Wife of General Ling

Pasternak

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Spies of the Air