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).

Personal Details

• Born: 1908-03-25 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
• Known For: Directing

David Lean Movies List

Looking for David Lean movies? Here are some of their most popular films and where they rank in their career:

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream (2017)
• Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World (2020)
• Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
• Pasternak (1965)
• The Making of Lawrence of Arabia (2001)
• E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey (2019)
• Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor (1979)
• The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)
• David Lean: A Life in Film (1985)

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