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
The Bread-Winner (play) are a similar age to their Battle counterparts, fill the scenes in the Battles’ house at Golders Green in London. The play was in written in 1930 and first produced by Athole Stewart at the Vaudeville Theatre London on September 30 of the same year. Ronald Squire and Peggy Ashcroft played Charles and Judy Battle. The title format for the Vaudeville playbill, as reproduced in Who's Who in the Theatre, (Seventh edition, 1933) is "The Breadwinner". According to theatre archivist Robert Tanitch ("Peggy Ashcroft", Hutchinson, 1987, ), one of Peggy Ashcroft's lines, "Don't you know that since the war the