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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:
15
First Appeared:
In the series The Oscars 1953-03-19
Latest Project:
Movie AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special 2023-12-30
Known For
Poster of Talking Pictures
Poster of The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
Poster of The South Bank Show
Poster of The Oscars
Filmography
Movie AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special Self (archive footage) 2023-12-30
Movie Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2020-02-15
Series Talking Pictures Himself - Archive footage 2013-01-05
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 David Lean: A Life in Film Self 1985-01-01
Movie The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio 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 Lawrence of Arabia Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited) 1962-12-11
Movie The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant Self 1958-01-01
Series The Oscars Unknown 1953-03-19