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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:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie Moscow in Madrid 1965-12-31
Latest Project:
Movie Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration 2010-05-04
Known For
Filmography
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 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
Movie Moscow in Madrid Self 1965-12-31
Movie Pasternak Himself 1965-12-31
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