1908-03-25 ( 117 years old ) in 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).
Movies
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
2020-02-15
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019-10-19
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019-02-27
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
2017-12-02
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
2010-05-04
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
2003-09-22
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
2000-01-01
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
1992-03-01
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985-01-01
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
1979-12-31
David Lean: A Self Portrait
1971-01-01
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
1970-01-01
Pasternak
1965-12-31
Moscow in Madrid
1965-12-31
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
1965-01-01
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
1965-01-01
Wind Sand and Star
1963-12-31
Lawrence of Arabia
1962-12-11
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958-01-01
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