David Lean
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-03-25 (83 years old)
Deathday
1991-04-16
Place of Birth
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Also known As
데이비드 린
大卫·里恩
David Lean
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 ...
Acting
1965
as Himself
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1965
as Self
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1958
2010
as Self (Archive Footage)
1979
1965
1965
1970
as Self
1992
as Self (archival footage)
1962
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
1971
as Self
1985
as Self
2020
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Production
1934
as Editor
1937
as Editor
1957
as Director
1945
as Director
1965
as Director
1962
as Director
1948
as Director
1948
as Screenplay
1942
as Director
1946
as Director
1946
as Screenplay
1984
as Director
1970
as Director
1936
as Editor
1954
as Director
1950
as Director
1945
as Director
1955
as Screenplay
1955
as Director
1952
as Director
1944
as Director
1949
as Adaptation
1949
as Director
1940
as Editor
1937
as Editor
1941
as Assistant Director
1979
1979
as Director
1934
as Editor
1933
as Editor
1954
as Producer
1954
as Screenplay
1933
as Editor
1942
as Editor
1933
as Editor
1933
as Editor
1935
as Editor
1935
as Editor
1945
as Additional Writing
1930
as Editor
1931
as Editor
1934
as Editor
1934
as Editor
1936
as Editor
1941
as Editor
1965
as Second Unit Director
1984
as Screenplay
1984
as Editor
1940
as Editor
1952
as Producer
1927
as Production Runner
1928
as Assistant Camera
1939
as Editor
1945
as Screenplay
1944
as Screenplay
1939
as Editor
1932
as Editor
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