David Lean
Director
Biography
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
Lawrence of Arabia
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited) 1962
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
as Self (archive footage) 2017
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2020
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2019
Pasternak
as Self (archive footage) 1965
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
as Self (archive footage) 2001
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Self (archive footage) 2019
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
as himself 1979
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self 1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self 1985
Moscow in Madrid
as Self 1965
Wind Sand and Star
1963
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self 1958
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
as Self (Archive Footage) 2010
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self 1965
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
as Self 1965
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
as Self 1970