Given Kodak Box Brownie camera by uncle at age 12, developed interest in photography

Worked for father's accounting firm at the age of 19 (date approximate)

Began working for Gaumont-British studios as tea-boy, then number-board holder, messenger and camera assistant

Graduated to newsreel editor; then put in charge of Gaumont Sound News

Began cutting feature films with "Escape Me Never"

First film as co-director (with Noel Coward), "In Which We Serve"

First film as solo director and first film as co-adaptor (with Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan), "This Happy Breed"

Formed Cineguild with Noel Coward, Ronald Neame 1nd Anthony Havelock-Allan

Subject of British TV documentary, "David Lean: A Life in Film"

TV directing debut: Lean directed and hosted a documentary on explorer Capt. James Cook, "The Story of Cook's Anchor" for New Zealand TV

Production of "Nostromo", his 17th film, halted when Lean became ill with throat cancer (February)