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 nominations. She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in "", with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in "The Echo of Thunder" (1998), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in "Dash and Lilly" (1999) and her frigid society matron in "A Cooler Climate" (1999). Davis earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film "". In 2003, she earned another Emmy nomination for her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic "The Reagans". In July 2006, she received