David Lean David Lean Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and "A Passage to India" (1984). He also directed adaptations of Charles Dickens novels "Great Expectations" (1946) and "Oliver Twist" (1948), and the romantic drama "Brief Encounter" (1945). Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's "In Which We Serve", which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning with "Summertime" in
Judy Davis dual roles, a mother, Georgia, and her daughter Nina. For her performance, Davis earned another Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress. In 1990, she had a cameo in Woody Allen's "Alice"; this would be her first appearance in an Allen-directed film. The following year, she was featured in Joel Coen's "Barton Fink", which won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenberg's adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel "Naked Lunch". She returned to E. M. Forster territory in "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author