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
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026 · Movie
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
2020 · Movie
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
2017 · Movie
Talking Pictures
2013 · Series
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
2010 · Movie
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
2001 · Movie
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985 · Movie
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985 · Movie
A Passage to India
1984 · Movie
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
1979 · Movie
The South Bank Show
1978 · Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
David Lean: A Self Portrait
1971 · Movie
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
1971 · Movie
Ryan's Daughter
1970 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Moscow in Madrid
1965 · Movie
Pasternak
1965 · Movie
Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Movie
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Movie
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
1965 · Movie
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Movie
Wind, Sand and Star
1963 · Movie
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · Movie
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958 · Movie
...On Seeing Film
1958 · Movie
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Movie
Summertime
1955 · Movie
Hobson's Choice
1954 · Movie
Reflets de Cannes
1954 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The Sound Barrier
1952 · Movie
Madeleine
1950 · Movie
The Passionate Friends
1949 · Movie
Oliver Twist
1948 · Movie
Great Expectations
1946 · Movie
Brief Encounter
1945 · Movie
Blithe Spirit
1945 · Movie
This Happy Breed
1944 · Movie
In Which We Serve
1942 · Movie
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 · Movie
49th Parallel
1941 · Movie
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie
Spy for a Day
1940 · Movie
French Without Tears
1940 · Movie
Spies of the Air
1939 · Movie
Pygmalion
1938 · Movie
The Wife of General Ling
1937 · Movie
Dreaming Lips
1937 · Movie
As You Like It
1936 · Movie
Ball at Savoy
1936 · Movie
The Crouching Beast
1935 · Movie
Escape Me Never
1935 · Movie
The King of Paris
1934 · Movie
Tiger Bay
1934 · Movie
The Secret of the Loch
1934 · Movie
Dangerous Ground
1934 · Movie
The Fortunate Fool
1933 · Movie
Song of the Plough
1933 · Movie
Money for Speed
1933 · Movie
The Ghost Camera
1933 · Movie
Insult
1932 · Movie
These Charming People
1931 · Movie
The Night Porter
1930 · Movie
Sailors Don't Care
1928 · Movie
Quinneys
1927 · Movie