David Lean

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).

Known For: Directing

Born: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK, 1908-03-25

Died: 1991-04-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant	Self	0
2	1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)	80
3	1963	Wind Sand and Star		0
4	1965	David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago	Self	0
5	1965	Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean	Self	0
6	1965	Pasternak	Himself	50
7	1965	Moscow in Madrid	Self	0
8	1970	Ryan's Daughter Featurette	Self	0
9	1971	David Lean: A Self Portrait	Self	0
10	1979	Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor	himself	70
11	1985	The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio	Self	60
12	1985	David Lean: A Life in Film	Self	60
13	1992	The South Bank Show: Noël Coward	Self (archival footage)	0
14	2000	The Making of Lawrence of Arabia	Self (archive footage)	100
15	2010	Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration	Self (Archive Footage)	0
16	2017	Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream	Self (archive footage)	64
17	2019	Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	43
18	2019	E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey	Self (archive footage)	0
19	2020	Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	70
20		Epic – The Life & Times of David Lean	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
3	1967	Omnibus	Self	72
4	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
5	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
6	1978	The South Bank Show	Self	56
7	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50

David Lean

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Television