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'''Sir David Lean, KBE''' ([[March 25]], [[1908]] – [[April 16]], [[1991]]) was a [[Britain|British]] [[film director]], best remembered for big-screen epics such as ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' and ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' . He was voted 9th best director of all time in the [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html BFI] "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002.
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He was born in [[Croydon]], [[Surrey]] to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye. His parents were [[Quaker]]s and he was a pupil at the Quaker-founded [[Leighton Park School]] in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]].
 
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Lean started at the bottom, as a [[clapperboard]] assistant. By 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont Pictures]] and [[Movietone]]. His career in feature films began with '''Escape Me Never''' in 1935.
 
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He went on to edit [[Gabriel Pascal]]'s film productions of two [[George Bernard Shaw]] plays, ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' (1938) and ''[[Major Barbara (1941 movie)|Major Barbara]]'' (1941), and [[Powell and Pressburger|Powell & Pressburger's]] ''[[Forty-Ninth Parallel]]'' (1941) and ''[[One of our Aircraft is Missing]]'' (1942).
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His first work as a director was in partnership with [[Noel Coward]] on ''[[In Which We Serve]]'' (1942), and he went on to adapt several of Coward's plays into successful films. These included ''[[This Happy Breed]]'' (1944), ''[[Blithe Spirit]]'' (1945) and ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (1945). These were followed by two celebrated [[Charles Dickens]] adaptations of ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1946) and ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' (1948), as well as ''[[The Sound Barrier (film)|The Sound Barrier]]'' (1952) a collaboration with the playwright [[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.
 
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''[[Summertime (film)|Summertime]]'' (1955), marked a new direction in for Lean. Filmed in colour, it was shot entirely on ___location in [[Venice]]. U.S.-financed, the film starred [[Katharine Hepburn]] as a middle-aged American woman who has a romance while on holiday in Venice.
 
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In the following years, Lean went on to make the blockbusters for which he is best known: ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), for which he won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], followed by another for ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962). ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1965) was another major hit, but after the moderately successful ''[[Ryan's Daughter]]'' in 1970, he did not direct another film until ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (1984), which would be his last. He was knighted in 1984.
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He was in the midst of planning an epic production of [[Joseph Conrad]]'s [[Nostromo]] when he died from cancer, aged 83. [[Marlon Brando]], [[Paul Scofield]] and [[Dennis Quaid]] were set to star in the film before Lean's death. The director was Quaid's favorite of all time.
 
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'''Nostromo''' would eventually be made as a [[BBC]] mini-series.
 
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Lean was married six times, and divorced five &mdash; his last wife survived him:
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*[[Peter O'Toole]]'s performance as an eccentric filmmaker in 1980's ''[[The Stunt Man]]'' was loosely based on Lean, who directed him in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''.
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*Lean was a long-term resident of [[Limehouse]], [[East London]]. His home on '''Narrow Street''' is still owned by his family.
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*Often cited [[John Ford]] as one of his favorite directors, and used that director's ''[[The Searchers]]'' (1956) in particular as a reference point while shooting his epic films (e.g. ''Lawrence'' and ''Zhivago'').
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==Filmography==
*''[[In Which We Serve]]'' (1942)
*''[[This Happy Breed]]'' (1944)
*''[[Blithe Spirit]]'' (1945)
*''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (1945)
*''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1946)
*''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' (1948)
*''[[The Passionate Friends]]'' (1949)
*''[[Madelein]]'' (1950)
*''[[The Sound Barrier (film)|The Sound Barrier]]'' (1952)
*''[[Hobson's Choice]]'' (1954)
*''[[Summertime (film)|Summertime]]'' (1955)
*''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' (1957)
*''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962)
*''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1965)
*''[[Ryan's Daughter]]'' (1970)
*''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (1984)
 
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* {{imdb name|id=0000180|name=David Lean}}
* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446899/ David Lean @ Screen Online.org]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/lean.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database, Biography by Alain Silver]
* [http://lean.bfi.org.uk/intro.php?isec=biography Biography at British Film Institute]
 
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