David Lean

David Lean was born in 1908 in Croydon, into a Quaker family that considered cinema immoral. Having joined Gaumont as an errand boy, he became in the mid-1930s the leading editor of British cinema. He moved into directing in 1942 by co-directing a film with Noël Coward, then adapted Charles Dickens twice before the great epics, including an epic of the Russian revolution. Panned by critics for an Irish film in 1970, he stopped making films for fourteen years and returned in 1984 with his last film. He died in 1991.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Bridge on the River KwaiDavid Lean · 1957Cinema
• CinemaLawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean · 1962Cinema