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- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson, based on ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ by T. E. Lawrence. Starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif.
- THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) Screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald.
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) Screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Starring Geraldine Page, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham.
- GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, and Kay Walsh, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
David Lean. Director: Lawrence of Arabia. An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding a job ...
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Blithe Spirit. 1945 1h 36m Approved. 7.0 (8K) Rate. A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife. Director David Lean Stars Rex Harrison Constance Cummings Kay Hammond. 4. Brief Encounter. 1945 1h 26m Approved.
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Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With David Lean. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 1 to 50 of 105 titles | Next » 1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama. 8.3. Rate this. 100 Metascore.
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- 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) Five years on from The Bridge on the River Kwai, another David Lean-directed film won Best Picture at the Oscars: the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.
- 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) Classic war movies don't get much better than The Bridge on the River Kwai, with this being a very direct yet undeniably powerful film with a strong anti-war message.
- 'Brief Encounter' (1945) Released the same year as Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter is a decidedly more serious 1945 movie directed by David Lean than that one was.
- 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) Doctor Zhivago is one of the most memorable films from the 1960s, and though it's a little unwieldy and not quite perfect, its strengths more than outweigh its shortcomings.
David Lean. Highest Rated: 100% Great Expectations (1946) Lowest Rated: 47% Ryan's Daughter (1970) Birthday: Mar 25, 1908. Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK.
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). Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer ...
