
David Lean
Directing
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).
TV Shows(7)
Movies(19)

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Self (archive footage)
2019

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Self (archive footage)
2017

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
Self (Archive Footage)
2010

The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Self (archive footage)
2001
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
1985

David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
1985

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
himself
1979

David Lean: A Self Portrait
Self
1971
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
Self
1970

Pasternak
Self (archive footage)
1965

Moscow in Madrid
Self
1965

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Self
1965
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
Self
1965

Wind Sand and Star
1963

Lawrence of Arabia
Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
1962

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
1958
Epic – The Life & Times of David Lean
Self (archive footage)






