David Lean in scale and more extensively released internationally. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle recounting the story of British and American prisoners of war trying to survive in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. The film stars William Holden and Alec Guinness and became the highest-grossing film of 1957 in the United States. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness, who had battled with Lean to give more depth to his role as an obsessively correct British commander who is
Ted Sobel Orchestra) who used the stage name Shari Fare. Her maiden name was Foreman and was the sister of six-time Academy Award nominee Carl Foreman who won the Oscar for his best written adapted screenplay of the 1958 Oscar winning best picture "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Sobel is also a first cousin to author Amanda Foreman and her journalist brother Jonathan Foreman. Ted Sobel Ted Sobel (born July 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster who is the longest current tenured Los Angeles-based radio sports reporter. He has worked mostly with CBS Radio since 1985. Sobel is the network's in-studio