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Sir David Lean (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was a British film director, best remembered for large-screen heroic poem like Lawrence of Arabia The Bridge on the River Kwaiand Doctor Zhivago.

He was innate within Croydon, Surrey to Francis William le Blount Lean & a previous Helena Tangye. He began at a bottom, as a clapperboard assistant. By 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including Gaumont Pictures and Movietone. His career witharound feature began sustaining Escape Us Never in 1935. He went in to edit Gabriel Pascal production's of two George Bernard Shaw plays, Pygmalion (1938) and Major Barbara (1941), and Powell & Pressburger's Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941) and One of our Aircraft is Missing (1942).

His number 1 act as a director was around partnership by owning Noel Coward on In Which We Serve (1942), and he went in to adapt many of Coward's plays into successful films. These involved This Happy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945) and Brief Encounter (1945). These were followed by ii celebrated Charles Dickens adaptations of Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), when well as The Sound Barrier (1952) a collaboration by owning a dramatist Terence Rattigan, and Hobson's Choice (1954) a stylish comic update of King Lear set in Victorian Manchester, and based on the play by Harold Brighouse.

Summertime (1955), marked a freshly counsel inside for List. Filmed withwithin colour, it was shot completely in location in Venice. United states financed, a film asterisked Katharine Hepburn as the middle-aged American woman world health organization has a romance piece on holiday around Venice.

In a resulting years, Leaning went in to produce the blockbusters for which he is better known: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Academy Award, followed by another for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Doctor Zhivago (1965) was another major hit, however fallowing a moderately successful Ryan's Daughter in 1970, he did not direct another film until A Passage to India (1984), which would be his last. He was knighted inside 1984. He was in the middle of planning an heroic production of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo when he died from throat cancer in 1991 (Nostromo would eventually exist as processed as a BBC mini-series).

Inclination was married sixfold, & divorced 5 — his endure married woman survived him:

  • Isabel Lean (1930 – 1936) — one boy Peter
  • Kay Walsh (1940 – 1949)
  • Ann Todd (1949 – 1957)
  • Leila Matkar (1960 – 1978)
  • Sandra Hotz (1981 – 1984)
  • Sandra Cooke (1990 – 1991) __NOTOC__ Trivia

    Peter O'Toole's performance as an eccentric filmmaker in 1980's The Stunt Man was loosely based on Lean, who of course directed him in Lawrence of Arabia.

    List was an extended-semipermanent resident of Limehouse, East London. His Narrow Street home is still owned by his personal.

    Quotation
    "I wouldn't take the advice of a lot of so-called critics on how to shoot a close-up of a teapot."

    • DavidLean.com
    Comprehensive guide to the work of film director, once film editor, David Lean. Includes synopsis and credits list of all the films he directed.

    Voices from the Archive - David Lean
    Features a profile and sound clips from a 1966 BBC interview conducted by Alan Haydock.

    David Lean
    The Britmovie guide. Biography,film synopses and credits.

    David Lean
    Biography and filmography from the Internet Movie Database.

    "Hunting, Hunting, Hunting"
    Jack Beatty reviews "David Lean: A Biography," by Kevin Brownlow, for Atlantic Magazine.
    Arts: Movies: Awards: Academy Awards: Recipients: Best Director






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