David Lean
Audiences rate David Lean’s films higher than 97% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Oliver Twist (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi) · The Bridge on the River Kwai (YouTube) · Brief Encounter (YouTube, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex) · Great Expectations (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) · Hobson's Choice (Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi) · Blithe Spirit (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi) and 3 more.
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The ThumbScore for David Lean (82.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of David's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, he is best remembered for adapting the works of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward, and for his large scale period 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. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, winning twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five).
Born 1908-03-25 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. Died 1991-04-16.
On ThumbScore, David Lean appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 82.5%, most frequently in the War genre.
Sources: TMDB
