Highlighted works
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Despite a harsh critical response at the time of its release, Ryan’s Daughter is a triumph of sensual storytelling by David Lean.
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An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense.
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Boris Pasternak’s story of love in the Russian Revolution confirmed David Lean’s standing as the master of the sweeping historical epic.
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The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.
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Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More falls foul of King Henry VIII in Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Robert Bolt’s stage success.
Filmography
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A Conversation with Robert Bolt
interviewee
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interviewee
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The Life and Times of Bertrand Russell
narrator
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Screenplay [Lean's Second Version]
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Screenplay
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Screenplay
1995
Screenplay
1992
Script
1991
Without Warning The James Brady Story
Script
1990
on-screen participant
1990
on-screen participant
1990
Sir David Lean and Robert Bolt
on-screen participant
1990
on-screen participant
1988
Written by
Original play1986
Screenplay from his own story
1984
Screenplay
1982
[Screenplay Draft - not used] (uncredited)
1981
Screenplay
1978
Lost & Found The Story of an Anchor
[Written by]
on-screen participant1972
Directed by
Written by1972
interviewee
1970
Original Screenplay by
1966
Screenplay and original play
1966
cast member
1965
Screenplay by
1965
Based on the play by
1965
Zhivago behind the Camera with David Lean
on-screen participant
1962
Screenplay by
soldier with pipe, officers' club (uncredited)1957
Script