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David Lean
Sir David Lean was an English filmmaker 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 Passage to India (1984). He also directed the film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver…
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culture · English filmmaker and editor (1908–1991) · film director · film producer · film editor · screenwriter · director · writer · film screenwriter · producer · filmmaker · also David Lean, Lean
Born 25 March 1908 · Died 16 April 1991 · Q55260
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2026· 7 entries
“Let me up to the projector room.”
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“We made Fagin an outsize and, we hoped, an amusing Jewish villain.”
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That Eric Alper: Stella Lefty Releases Debut Album ‘Long Way Home’ Featuring “Boston” And “Lean In, Kiss Me”
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Quiver Quantitative: McKesson gains as investors lean on strong earnings backdrop and recent guidance lift
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The Fader: This year’s VMAs nominations lean pop, legacy, and white
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BroadwayWorld: Interview: Playwright Stephen Sheffer and LEAN-TO at 59e59 Theaters
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2012· 1 entry
Lean was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt
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2008· 1 entry
Writer and broadcaster Andrew Collins praised him as "more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale":
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2001· 1 entry
He was survived by his last wife Sandra Cooke, art dealer and co-author (with Barry Chattington) of David Lean: An Intimate Portrait (2001), and by Peter Lean, his son from his first marriage.
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1999· 2 entries
The British Film Institute compiled its list of the Top 100 British films
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"As the varied likes of David Lean, Robert Wise, Terence Fisher and Dorothy Arzner have proved, the cutting rooms are easily the finest grounding for film direction
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1991· 3 entries
Died 1991-04-16.
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Called him "[a] man driven to achieve the perfect realisation of his ideas and ruthless in that pursuit
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Lean died in Limehouse, London, on 16 April 1991, at the age of 83.
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1990).
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1984· 1 entry
Had a career revival with A Passage to India, adapted from E
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Lawrence of Arabia (1963).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
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1954· 1 entry
Won Golden Bear for Hobson's Choice (1954).
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1953).
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And was knighted for his contributions and services to the arts in 1984
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1927· 1 entry
After an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed, he visited Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-03-25.
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