Highest rated as cast or director
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).
Directed 19
1980s
- 1984
1970s
- 1979
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Director
- 1970
1960s
- 1965
- 1962
1950s
- 1957
- 1955
- 1954
- 1952
The Sound Barrier
Director
- 1950
Madeleine
Director
1940s
- 1949
- 1948
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
This Happy Breed
Director
- 1942
- 1941
Major Barbara
Assistant Director
Edited 22
1980s
- 1984
1940s
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
Spy for a Day
Editor
French Without Tears
Editor
1930s
- 1939
Spies of the Air
Editor
- 1938
- 1937
Dreaming Lips
Editor
- 1936
Ball at Savoy
Editor
- 1935
The Crouching Beast
Editor
Escape Me Never
Editor
- 1934
Tiger Bay
Editor
The Secret of the Loch
Editor
Dangerous Ground
Editor
- 1933
The Fortunate Fool
Editor
Song of the Plough
Editor
Money for Speed
Editor
The Ghost Camera
Editor
- 1932
Insult
Editor
- 1931
These Charming People
Editor
- 1930
The Night Porter
Editor
Wrote 9
1980s
- 1984
1970s
- 1979
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Writer
1950s
- 1955
- 1954
1940s
- 1949
- 1948
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
This Happy Breed
Screenplay
Produced 3
1960s
- 1962
1950s
- 1954
- 1952
The Sound Barrier
Producer
Acted in 2
1960s
- 1963
Wind, Sand and Star
Movie
- 1962
Other crew 1
1940s
- 1945
Appearances22
2020s
- 2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Self (archive footage)
- 2020
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2010s
- 2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Self (archive footage)
- 2017
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Self (archive footage)
- 2013
- 2010
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
Self (Archive Footage)
2000s
- 2001
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Self (archive footage)
1980s
- 1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
1970s
- 1979
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
himself
- 1978
- 1973
- 1971
David Lean: A Self Portrait
Self
1960s
- 1968
- 1967
- 1965
Pasternak
Self (archive footage)
Moscow in Madrid
Self
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Self
1950s
- 1958
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
...On Seeing Film
Self
- 1954
Reflets de Cannes
Self · 1 episode
- 1953
