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    1. 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 of British cinema. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A ...

    • LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson, based on ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ by T. E. Lawrence. Starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif.
    • THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) Screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald.
    • DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) Screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Starring Geraldine Page, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham.
    • GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, and Kay Walsh, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
  2. David Lean. Director: Lawrence of Arabia. An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding a job at Gaumont British Studios in 1927. He worked as ...

    • March 25, 1908
    • April 16, 1991
  3. Mar 1, 2024 · David Lean (pictured in 1953) is the acclaimed director of ‘Brief Encounter’, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (Getty)

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    • 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) Five years on from The Bridge on the River Kwai, another David Lean-directed film won Best Picture at the Oscars: the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.
    • 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) Classic war movies don't get much better than The Bridge on the River Kwai, with this being a very direct yet undeniably powerful film with a strong anti-war message.
    • 'Brief Encounter' (1945) Released the same year as Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter is a decidedly more serious 1945 movie directed by David Lean than that one was.
    • 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) Doctor Zhivago is one of the most memorable films from the 1960s, and though it's a little unwieldy and not quite perfect, its strengths more than outweigh its shortcomings.
  4. Dec 14, 2012 · Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. On the day I went to visit David Lean's set of "Ryan's Daughter" in Dingle, Ireland, in 1969, the sun was shining and it reflected a dazzling light off the.

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  6. Apr 3, 2009 · A passage from Reading. Sir David Lean was seminal in what is regarded as the Golden Age of British film, directing epics such as Lawrence Of Arabia, Bridge On The River Kwai, Dr Zhivago and A ...