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    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 ...

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  2. The following is a filmography of David Lean, whose body of work in the film industry spanned the period from 1930 to 1984. This list includes the release year of the film, the role(s) Lean had in the production of each film, and additional notes such as awards and nominations.

  3. Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse . It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, John Mills as timid but highly talented employee Will Mossop, and Brenda de Banzie as Hobson's eldest, fiercely ...

  4. 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).

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  5. Dec 14, 2012 · Lean began in the British cinema in 1934, as an editor, and in the years before his films grew to epic length and scope, he directed a series of tight, bright, pointed black-and-white dramas that helped define British postwar moviemaking.

  6. May 28, 2008 · Born on 25 March 1908 in Croydon, Surrey, David Lean started his career in film in the late 1920s as a clapper boy before editing around twenty-five films including The Night Porter (1930), Pygmalion (1938) and Michael Powell’s 49th Parallel (1941) and One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942).

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  8. Apr 16, 1991 · 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 ...