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
Peggy Hyland The production starred Allan Roscoe and was directed by Howard M. Mitchell. The date of death for Hyland has not been definitively determined. The last whereabouts of her was her marriage to Universal film producer Fred LeRoy Granville in September 1921. They later divorced and her last film was released in 1925. However, according to IMDB, she died on September 19, 1973 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK Peggy Hyland Peggy Hyland ("née" Gladys Hutchinson) (11 June 1884 – September 19, 1973) was an English silent film actress who was born in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire. She was educated in Britain