Born in Croydon in 1908 and died in 1991, Lean began as a film editor and became Britain's great maker of epics. He moved from intimate dramas such as Brief Encounter and Dickens adaptations to the large-scale spectacles of his later career, and won the Oscar for Best Director for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia.
Filmography
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- This Happy Breed (1944)
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Great Expectations (1946)
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Hobson's Choice (1954)
- Summertime (1955)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Ryan's Daughter (1970)
- A Passage to India (1984)