Highest rated movie: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lowest rated movie: The Passionate Friends (1949)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 75%.
Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean's highest rated movie, with a score of 88% based on 853 reviews.
The lowest rated film from David Lean is The Passionate Friends, with a score of 66% based on 14 reviews.
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, best remembered for bringing Charles Dickens's novels to the screen with films such as Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), and for his big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
Acclaimed and praised by directors such as Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. Lean has four films in the top eleven of the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films.
David Lean has directed films starring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Trevor Howard and Joyce Carey.
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