David Lean
Directing
1908-03-25 · 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).
Filmography(27)
movieMaverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
as Self (archive footage) · 2026 · 0.0
movieOmar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) · 2020 · 7.0
movieE. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Self (archive footage) · 2019 · 7.0
movieNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) · 2019 · 5.0
movieNostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
as Self (archive footage) · 2017 · 6.4
tvTalking Pictures
as Self (archive footage) · 2013 · 6.2
movieDoctor Zhivago: A Celebration
as Self (Archive Footage) · 2010 · 0.0
movieThe Making of Lawrence of Arabia
as Self (archive footage) · 2001 · 8.5
movieThe Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self · 1985 · 8.0
movieDavid Lean: A Life in Film
as Self · 1985 · 6.0
movieLost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
as himself · 1979 · 7.0
tvThe South Bank Show
as Self · 1978 · 5.6
tvThe American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self · 1973 · 6.3
movieDavid Lean: A Self Portrait
as Self · 1971 · 0.0
movieRyan's Daughter Featurette
as Self · 1970 · 0.0
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968 · 6.8
tvOmnibus
as Self · 1967 · 7.2
moviePasternak
as Self (archive footage) · 1965 · 6.5
movieMoscow in Madrid
as Self · 1965 · 7.0
movieZhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self · 1965 · 10.0
movieDavid Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
as Self · 1965 · 9.0
movieWind Sand and Star
as · 1963 · 0.0
movieLawrence of Arabia
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited) · 1962 · 8.0
movieThe Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self · 1958 · 0.0