
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).

The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968

The Oscars
TV • 1953

Omnibus
TV • 1967

The South Bank Show
TV • 1978

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973

Talking Pictures
TV • 2013

Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954

Lawrence of Arabia
MOVIE • 1962

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
MOVIE • 2019

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
MOVIE • 2010

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
MOVIE • 2020

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
MOVIE • 1958

Pasternak
MOVIE • 1965

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
MOVIE • 2017

Moscow in Madrid
MOVIE • 1965

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
MOVIE • 1965

David Lean: A Life in Film
MOVIE • 1985

David Lean: A Self Portrait
MOVIE • 1971