David Lean

to sir David Lean (Croydon, Surrey, March 25th 1908 - London, April 16th 1991), is a producing Réalisateur and British. It is recognized to have carried out major works which, still nowadays, make parties of the " classiques" cinema. One can thus include in this category the films the Bridge of the river Kwaï (film), Lawrence of Arabia (film) and Doctor Jivago (film).

Filmographic biography and summary

David Lean started in the cinema as assistant-operator (with the clap). In 1930 it works in the edition of films of topicality diffused with the cinema for Gaumont Pictures or Movietone. Its career, strictly speaking, begins with “Escape Me Never” (1936), while its first work as realizer is carried out in partnership with Noel Coward on “In Which We Serve” (1942). It is made a name with “Brief Encounter” (Brève meeting) (1945) then directs several films based on traditional novels such as “Great Expectations” (the Great Hopes) (1946). “The Sound Barrier” (1952) is a comedy with the British, while “Hobson' S Choice” (Shoe with its foot) (1954), whose Lean is also producer, is a comic adaptation of King Lear in Manchester Victorien.

With the arrival of the color, Lean becomes a figure impossible to circumvent of the Hollywood industry for which it ensures the realization of films large spectacle on historical bottom, generally of the commercial triumphs, such as “The Bridge one the River Kwai” ( the Bridge of the river Kwaï , 1957) and Lawrence of Arabia which are worth each one to him a Oscar for its setting in scene. In 1965 it carries out “Doctor Zhivago” ( Doctor Jivago , 1965) which is also a success. After the success mitigated of “Ryan' S Daughter” (the Girl of Ryan (1970), it does not direct any more any film until her last in 1984: “Has Passage to India” ( the Road of the Indies ), adapted E.M. Forster. He dies in 1991 whereas he prepares the adaptation of Nostromo of Joseph Conrad.

Catalog of films

As a producer

As a realizer

As an assembler

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