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Archive Gallery: David Lean

Posted: 2 Nov 2009

David Lean was the first chairman of the British Film Academy. In 1975 he donated the royalties from his films Dr Zhivago (1965) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) to the Society of Film and Television Arts (SFTA), which was later to become BAFTA. View this selection of photos from our archive of the great man.


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