David Lean

Born March 25, 1908· Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

† Died April 16, 1991

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Emerging from a background in film editing during the early 1930s, he entered directing with the wartime collaboration In Which We Serve (1942) and soon followed a series of adaptations of Noël Coward’s plays, including Brief Encounter (1945) and the Dickens-based Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). A shift to internationally co-produced epics produced such landmarks as The Bridge o…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources