Albert Finney, at the time a virtual unknown, was Lean's first choice to play Lawrence, but Finney was not sure the film would be a success and turned it down.

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

Miller worked on several of Lean's films as a dialogue coach, and was one of several members of the film crew to be given bit parts ( see below ).

O ' Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the role.

The film received less positive reviews than Lean's previous work and was not a smash hit at the international box office.

Nostromo had a total budget of $ 46 million and was just six weeks away from filming at the time of Lean's death from throat cancer.

Her last film of the year was David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, adapted from the epic / romance novel by Boris Pasternak.

After acting in a variety of plays from 1966 to 1969, Miles was cast as Rosy in the title role of David Lean's 1970 film, Ryan's Daughter.

Sharif's first English language film was in the role of Sherif Ali in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in 1962.

Government officials initially resisted director David Lean's request to allow his crew to film on location during the summer months, the height of the tourist season, especially when local gondolieri, fearful they would lose income, threatened to strike if he was given permission to do so.

Paul Scofield was Lean's first choice for the part of Shaughnessy, but he was unable to escape a theater commitment.

In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Lean's final film A Passage to India, an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Newley's first major film role was as Dick Bultitude in Peter Ustinov's Vice Versa ( 1948 ) followed by the Artful Dodger in David Lean's Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), based on the Charles Dickens novel.

David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter takes place at a village on the Dingle Peninsula in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, and was partly shot on location near Dún Chaoin, Coumeenole Beach, Slea Head and Inch Strand.

The film was advertised as being the first movie to be filmed in 70mm since David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter, although the film was not shot entirely in 70mm ; that distinction would go to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

Thomas was fictionalized in David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia as American journalist Jackson Bentley, played by Arthur Kennedy.

The hill Ramadevarabetta, along with Savandurga was one of the shooting locations for David Lean's A Passage to India.

The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ) was an international success, but her next film role in David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) became her most famous and most lauded.

David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd was also his first for Alexander Korda's London Films, following the break-up of Cineguild.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

His credits as a child actor include the title role at the age of nine in David Lean's production Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), followed by The Rocking Horse Winner ( 1949 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and a few episodes of the television series William Tell ( 1958 ).

More recently, Joe Wright ( Pride & Prejudice, Atonement ) has cited Lean's works, particularly Doctor Zhivago, as an important influence on his work, and Baz Luhrmann has named Lean as one of the inspirations for his 2008 epic Australia.

He wanted to play the Chorus in Olivier's Henry V, but the role went to Leslie Banks, and he longed desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's Oliver Twist, but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead.

Implementations under the Lean label are numerous and whether they are Lean and whether any success or failure can be laid at Lean's door is often debatable.

Walsh and Lean divorced in 1949, on grounds of infidelity based on Lean's relationship with actress Ann Todd.

A similar example is David Lean, whose Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter both carry the credit " David Lean's Film of " ( followed by the title ).

Corri appeared in many excellent films, notably as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago ( 1965 ) and in the Otto Preminger thriller Bunny Lake is missing.

Its story is that of an unconsummated affair between two married people Coward is keeping his lovers in check because he cannot handle the energies of a less inhibited love in a setting shorn of the wit and exotic flavour of his best comedies To look at the script, shorn of David Lean's beautiful camera work, deprived of an audience who would automatically approve of the final sacrifice, is to find oneself asking awkward questions.

Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for his performance after taking over the part from Peter O ' Toole, who broke his contract with the RSC before rehearsals began in order to take the lead in David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia.

Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

The late 1950s and 1960s also brought some more thoughtful big war films like Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood ( 1962 ), David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) as well as a fashion for all-star epics based on battles which were often quasi-documentary in style and filmed in Europe where extras and production costs were cheaper.

For Lean's final film, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), he chose to both direct and edit, and the two roles were given precisely equal status in the film's credits.

were inspired by David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations, as were, by extension, the characters of Norma Desmond and Baby Jane Hudson and their homes.

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

He has been portrayed on film three times: in the 1951 film Sirocco ( dealing with the Syrian insurrection against France ), by Jeff Corey ; David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), played by Alec Guinness, and in the unofficial sequel to Lawrence, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1990 ) by Alexander Siddig.

Roger Ebert felt that " Lean's characters, well written and well acted, are finally dwarfed by his excessive scale.

As Miss Havisham, she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by Alec Guinness which provided the inspiration and template for Lean's film.

The kosovorotka is also seen worn by Omar Sharif as Yuri Zhivago in David Lean's 1965 film Doctor Zhivago.

He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 ), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's Summertime ( 1955 ), opposite Katharine Hepburn.

Defiant, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ( both 1962 ) and The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ).

The Sound Barrier was a great box-office success, but it is now rarely seen ( recently it has been released in both VHS and DVD home versions ) and has become one of the least-known of Lean's films.