David Lean [12238] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.4876 Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK Birthday: 1908-03-25 Deathday: 1991-04-16 Age: 83 years Movies: 20 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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). Omar Sharif: Citizen of2020-02-15 E. M. Forster: His Long2019-10-19 Nice Girls Don't Stay f2019-02-27 Nostromo: David Lean's 2017-12-02 The Making of 'Lawrence2003-09-22 The Making of Lawrence 2000-01-01 The South Bank Show: No1992-03-01 David Lean: A Life in F1985-01-01 The Golden Gong: The St1985-01-01 Lost and Found: The Sto1979-12-31 David Lean: A Self Port1971-01-01 Ryan's Daughter Feature1970-01-01 Pasternak1965-12-31 Moscow in Madrid1965-12-31 David Lean's Film of Do1965-01-01 Zhivago: Behind the Cam1965-01-01 Wind Sand and Star1963-12-31 Lawrence of Arabia1962-12-11 The Rise and Fall of a 1958-01-01 Epic – The Life & Tim