Acting credits
22
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
David Lean
Directing
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Movies: 53Series: 7Crew credits: 40
TMDB ID: 12238
IMDb ID: nm0000180
Known for: Directing
Born: March 25, 1908
Died: April 16, 1991
Age: 83
Place of birth: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1930 - 2020
Years active: 91
Average TMDB rating: 7.07
Wikidata: Q55260
Also known as
데이비드 린 • 大卫·里恩
Other jobs
Editor (21)Director (17)Assistant Director (1)Second Unit Director (1)
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Lean.
7.0
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020 Movie
7.0
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Self (archive footage)
2019 Movie
4.6
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019 Movie
6.4
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
as Self (archive footage)
2017 Movie
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
as Self (Archive Footage)
2010 Movie
10.0
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
as Self (archive footage)
2001 Movie
6.0
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
1985 Movie
6.8
A Passage to India
Director
1984 Movie
7.0
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
as himself
1979 Movie
David Lean: A Self Portrait
as Self
1971 Movie
7.1
Ryan's Daughter
Director
1970 Movie
5.0
Pasternak
as Self (archive footage)
1965 Movie
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
1965 Movie
7.5
Doctor Zhivago
Director
1965 Movie
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Second Unit Director
1965 Movie
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self
1965 Movie
Wind Sand and Star
1963 Movie
8.0
Lawrence of Arabia
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
1962 Movie
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
1958 Movie
7.8
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Director
1957 Movie
6.8
Summertime
Director
1955 Movie
7.4
Hobson's Choice
Director
1954 Movie
6.5
The Sound Barrier
Director
1952 Movie
6.7
Madeleine
Director
1950 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Lean.
5.8
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
2013 Series
5.6
The South Bank Show
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self • 1 eps
1973 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.2
Omnibus
as Self • 1 eps
1967 Series
2.0
Reflets de Cannes
as Self • 1 eps
1954 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 2 eps
1953 Series