DAVID LEAN
David Lean was a British film director,and he is considered as the master of the epic scale as well as of the small nuance.
He was born on 25th march 1908He was born in Croydon, England,to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye.Both his parents were Quakers and naturally he was also a pupil at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in ReadingHe was educated at Leighton Park School.
Credit goes to his younger brother also as his younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean , founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford UniversityLean started his career with his father, who was an accountant, and then he took a job at Gaumont Films, where he was placed in charge of editing for the firm's newsreels.He later worked on low-budget feature films it was so brillian and by 1935 he was considered one of the Britain's leading film editor.
Credit goes to him as he edited the landmark adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1938) and he also edited and co-directed Shaw's Major Barbara (1941) and Noel Coward's In Which We Serve (1942).Coward was higluy impressed by his work and he permitted Lean to direct film versions of his This Happy Breed (1945), Blithe Spirit (1945), and Brief Encounter (1945), for which eventualll lead Lean for winning an Oscar nomination.
Later, Lean went to Hollywood in 1955 to direct Summertime which starred Katharine Hepburn and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar is considered as one of the best film all time.
Again in 1962 he won another oscar for his film Lawrence of Arabia.Lean gave up films for a gap 14 years,after he finished, Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970).After a gap of 14 years he made a sensational comeback in 1984 with the film A Passage to India , which won eleven more Academy Award nominations and two wins for Original score,Maurice Jarre, and supporting actress ,Peggy Ashcroft
It was in 1973 he won the highest honor of the Directors' Guild of America, the D. W. Griffith Award.He was made a commander of the British Empire in 1953 and was knighted in 1984.During the 1990's Lean was in pre-production of a film version of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and he was very hill that time and he eventually died on 16th April 1991 at the age of 83,due to throat cancer, with the film Nostromo unfinishedLater that film became as one of the BBC mini series
Lean was one of the founding members of the British Film Academy which is now called as British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA and he was appointed as its first chairman in 1947.Lean also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990
Seven of his film were on the BFI top 100 British films list and four of them were on the top elevenHe was a long-term resident of Limehouse, East London.His home on Narrow Street is still owned by his family members.He was married six times, had one son, and also was divorced five times.He was survived by his last wife, Sandra Cooke.
His spouses includes,
1. Isabel Lean (28 June 1930 – 1936) (David's first cousin) — one son, Peter
2. Kay Walsh (23 November 1940 – 1949)
3. Ann Todd (21 May 1949 – 1957)
4. Leila Matkar (4 July 1960 – 1978)
5. Sandra Hotz (28 October 1981 – 1984)
6. Sandra Cooke (15 December 1990 – 16 April 1991)
#)David Lean was one of the great director and he will be remebered forever
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