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    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...
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    The following is a filmography of David Lean, whose body of work in the film industry spanned the period from 1930 to 1984. This list includes the release...
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  • and Edward Fox. The Bounty began production in late 1978 under director David Lean as a long-time passion project, but multiple complications, including...
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    starring roles and three in supporting roles — including five directed by David Lean and four from Ealing Studios. He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden...
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  • David Lean may refer to: David Lean (1908–1991), an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor David Lean (athlete) (1935-), an Australian...
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  • Look up Lean, lean, Léan, léan, or leaning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lean, leaning or LEAN may refer to: Lean thinking, a business methodology...
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  • mind, because of the sexual implications I think of the story." In 1955 David Lean became enthusiastic about the novel and secured the film rights through...
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  • David Richard Lean (born 16 March 1945) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999...
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    Quakers. He was the younger brother of David Lean, the film director. After leaving Leighton Park School, Tangye Lean was an undergraduate at University College...
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  • was The 39 Steps (1935), and only two other 1930s films made the list. David Lean is the most represented director on the list, with seven films, three...
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  • Doctor Zhivago (film) (category Films directed by David Lean)
    Zhivago (/ʒɪˈvɑːɡoʊ/) is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak...
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    Lawrence of Arabia (film) (category Films directed by David Lean)
    of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical adventure drama film directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company Horizon Pictures...
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    The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually...
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai (category Films directed by David Lean)
    The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, written by Pierre Boulle...
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    Smith's story was the basis for several plays and the distinguished David Lean film Madeleine (1950), starring Ann Todd, Ivan Desny and Leslie Banks...
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  • A Passage to India (film) (category Films directed by David Lean)
    India is a 1984 epic period drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster...
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    starred in The Seventh Veil (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed her in The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and...
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  • about David Lean: Brownlow, Kevin (15 August 1996). David Lean: A Biography. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-4668-3237-4. Lean, David (2009). David Lean: Interviews...
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    Nigel Tangye His niece, Helena Tangye Lean Her son Edward Tangye Lean Her son David Tangye Lean, aka David Lean George Tangye, Richard's brother Tangye...
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  • film career prospered after she met her future husband, film director David Lean, with whom she worked on productions such as In Which We Serve and Oliver...
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    Best Actor. Sharif played opposite Peter O'Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which earned him an Academy Award nomination...
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  • manager, screenwriter, and supercentenarian. He collaborated with director David Lean during the 1940s and '50s. Spencer was born in Stockwell, London, on 13...
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    The David Lean Cinema is a small cinema established in Croydon, London. It is accessed from the Croydon Clocktower arts complex on Katharine Street. The...
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  • Scorsese 2 Robert Altman Michael Curtiz Victor Fleming John Ford Elia Kazan David Lean George Lucas Sidney Lumet Mike Nichols Alan J. Pakula George Stevens Robert...
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  • Show. Composer Maurice Jarre had previously worked with director David Lean, scoring Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia and winning the Academy Award for...
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  • Great Expectations (1946 film) (category Films directed by David Lean)
    Great Expectations is a 1946 British drama film directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills and Valerie...
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    director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter (1970). The two men had a difficult relationship; this was the experience of many actors who worked with Lean. The...
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  • Ryan's Daughter (category Films directed by David Lean)
    Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 British epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean and written by Robert Bolt. Loosely inspired by Gustave Flaubert's 1857...
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  • his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean composing all of his films from 1962 to 1984. Jarre received numerous...
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  • Arnold added a counter-march, which he titled "The River Kwai March", for David Lean's 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai, set during World War II. Empire...
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