"damage. Boulle nonetheless enjoyed the film version though he disagreed with its climax. Many directors were considered for the project, among them John Ford, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Fred Zinnemann, and Orson Welles (who was also offered a starring role). The film was an international co-production between companies in Britain and the United States. Director David Lean clashed with his cast members on multiple occasions, particularly Alec Guinness and James Donald, who thought the novel was anti-British. Lean had a lengthy row with Guinness over how to play the role of Nicholson; Guinness wanted to play the part with a"
"Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including ""The Ladykillers"" and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in ""Great Expectations"" (1946), Fagin in ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Col. Nicholson in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in ""Lawrence of Arabia"""
"in the ""Motion Picture Herald"". Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including ""The Ladykillers"" and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in ""Great Expectations"" (1946), Fagin in ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Col. Nicholson in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince"
"Saturday 31 January 1976. Philip Toosey Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway as later fictionalized in the book ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"" by Pierre Boulle, and since adapted into the Oscar-winning film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer, Lt. Colonel Nicholson. Both the"
"work. After appearing in Lean's ""Great Expectations"" and ""Oliver Twist"", he was given a starring role opposite William Holden in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"". For his performance as Colonel Nicholson, the unyielding British POW commanding officer, Guinness won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Despite a difficult and often hostile relationship, Lean, referring to Guinness as ""my good luck charm"", continued to cast Guinness in character roles in his later films: Arab leader Prince Feisal in ""Lawrence of Arabia""; the title character's half-brother, Bolshevik leader Yevgraf, in ""Doctor Zhivago"" and Indian"
"although on this occasion another actor – Alec Clunes – had already turned them down. This time Morell accepted the part, and is regarded by several critics as having provided the definitive interpretation of the character. Morell personally found that in later years it was the role for which he was most often remembered by members of the public. As well as these and other television appearances, Morell gained several notable film roles towards the end of the 1950s. He appeared in two films which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), as"
"Philip Toosey Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway as later fictionalized in the book ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"" by Pierre Boulle, and since adapted into the Oscar-winning film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer, Lt. Colonel Nicholson. Both the book and film outraged"
"in Japanese and European cinema for many years before making his Hollywood comeback in ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949). Of his talkies, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), for which he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hayakawa starred in over 80 feature films, and three of his films (""The Cheat"", ""The Dragon Painter"", and ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"") stand in the United States National Film Registry. Hayakawa was born in the village of Nanaura, now part of a town called Chikura,"
"William Holden William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film ""Stalag 17"" (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film ""The Blue Knight"" (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ""Sunset Boulevard"", ""Sabrina"", ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", ""The Wild Bunch"", ""Picnic"" and ""Network"". He was"
"such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute ""Sight & Sound"" ""Directors' Top Directors"" poll in 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""Lawrence of Arabia"", he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. Lean was born at 38 Blenheim Crescent, South"
"characterisation of Smiley in subsequent novels on Guinness. One of Guinness's last appearances was in the BBC drama ""Eskimo Day"" (1996). Guinness won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1957 for his role in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" after having been unsuccessfully nominated for an Oscar in 1952 for his performance in ""The Lavender Hill Mob"". He was nominated in 1958 for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel ""The Horse's Mouth"". He was nominated for"
"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"
"Return from the River Kwai Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 British film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris Penn and Timothy Bottoms. It is not a sequel to ""Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), although it deals with POWS of the Japanese in World War Two. The film is based on a 1979 factual book with the same name about a 1944 Japanese prisoner transport of 2,217 British and Australian POWs, who had been working as forced labour on the Burma Railway, building the bridge over the River Kwai. They were taken by railway"
"Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His output of works features music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), for which he won an Oscar. Malcolm Arnold was"
"colour mis-registration, and a tick-like effect with the image jumping or jerking side-to-side. These issues, running throughout the film, were addressed to a lesser extent on various previous DVD releases of the film and might not have been so obvious in standard definition. The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel ""Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï"" (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast included William"
"Harold Goodwin (English actor) Harold Goodwin (22 October 1917 – 3 June 2004) was an English actor born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years. He appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s and 1960s, usually playing 'flat cap' wearing working class characters from Northern England or low ranks in the military. He had significant parts in the war films ""The Dam Busters"" (playing Guy Gibson's batman, 'Crosby'), ""Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""The Longest Day."" He can also be seen in"
"the bridge actually crossed the Mae Klong river. The novel was made into the 1957 film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", directed by David Lean, which won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Picture. This film was shot in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), and a bridge was erected for the purpose of shooting the film over Kelani River at Kitulgala, Sri Lanka. The film was relatively faithful to the novel, with two major exceptions. Shears, who is a British commando officer like Warden in the novel, became an American sailor who escapes from the POW camp. Also, in"
"Henry Oscar Henry Wale (14 July 1891, London – 28 December 1969, London), known professionally as Henry Oscar, was an English stage and film actor. He changed his name and began acting in 1911, having studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London. and appeared in a wide range of films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), ""Fire Over England"" (1937), ""The Four Feathers"" (1939), ""Hatter's Castle"" (1942), ""Bonnie Prince Charlie"" (1948), ""Beau Brummell"" (1954), ""The Little Hut"" (1957), ""Beyond This Place"" (1959), ""Oscar"
"George Sanders George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in ""Rebecca"" (1940), Scott ffolliott in ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940) (a rare heroic part), Addison DeWitt in ""All About Eve"" (1950), for which he won an Academy Award, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in ""Ivanhoe"" (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in ""King Richard"
"Wilde"" (1960), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""The Long Ships"" (1963) and ""Murder Ahoy!"" (1964). Henry Oscar Henry Wale (14 July 1891, London – 28 December 1969, London), known professionally as Henry Oscar, was an English stage and film actor. He changed his name and began acting in 1911, having studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London. and appeared in a wide range of films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), ""Fire Over England"" (1937), ""The Four Feathers"" (1939), ""Hatter's Castle"" (1942), ""Bonnie Prince"
"supported the sport, on the field and in his writing. Colin Welland Colin Welland (4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015), born Colin Edward Williams, was a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981). He won a BAFTA Award for his performance as the empathetic teacher Mr Farthing in the 1969 film ""Kes"". Born in 1934 in Liverpool, Welland grew up in the Kensington area of Liverpool before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, while still a young child. His parents were John Arthur (Jack) and Norah Williams."
"you are able to use it in a certain area of commerce, such as the exclusive use of River Kwai in the title of a film. It does not matter where Pierre Boulle got the name."" In 1998 a court ruled that the title suggested the film implied it was a sequel to ""Bridge on the River Kwai"". It was never released in the US. Under said the film took $5 million worldwide outside the US. Return from the River Kwai Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 British film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris"
"Times"". Cast and crew members were also affected. Howland Chamberlin was blacklisted, while Floyd Crosby and Lloyd Bridges were ""gray listed."" In 2002, PBS television made a two-hour film about Foreman's ordeal during McCarthyism titled """". It was written and directed by outspoken conservative Lionel Chetwynd. Foreman was also the subject of an episode of """", directed by Terry Sanders and Frieda Lee Mock. Carl Foreman Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""High Noon"", among others. He"
"Colin Welland Colin Welland (4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015), born Colin Edward Williams, was a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981). He won a BAFTA Award for his performance as the empathetic teacher Mr Farthing in the 1969 film ""Kes"". Born in 1934 in Liverpool, Welland grew up in the Kensington area of Liverpool before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, while still a young child. His parents were John Arthur (Jack) and Norah Williams. He attended Newton-le-Willows Grammar School and after National Service he"
"that and I tend not to forget."" In 1984, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording for ""The Words of Gandhi"". He was awarded the Indian civilian honour Padma Shri in 1984. In May 2010, Kingsley was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In April 2013, Kingsley was honoured with the Fellowship Award at The Asian Awards in London. Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes,"
"Carl Foreman Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""High Noon"", among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to a working-class Jewish family, he was the son of Fanny (Rozin) and Isidore Foreman. He studied at the University of Illinois. As a student in the 1930s, he became an advocate of revolutionary socialism"
"Peter Taylor (editor) ""For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor."" Peter Taylor (18 February 1922 – 17 December 1997) was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits. Perhaps his best remembered contribution is the editing of the 1957 film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"". In his obituary for Taylor, Tony Sloman gives several examples to illustrate Taylor's editing. He writes: Taylor won an Academy Award for Film Editing for ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), which was placed as the 36th best American film ever made in the 2007 American Film Institute listing."
"compensation for his fellow captives, eventually helping to obtain a token £5 million of frozen Japanese assets for this cause. This was distributed by the FEPOW Welfare Trust, on which Percival served as Chairman. He led protests against the film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" when it was released in 1957, obtaining the addition of an on-screen statement that the movie was a work of fiction. He also worked as President of the Hertfordshire British Red Cross and was made an Officer of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1964. Percival died at the age of 78 on"
"indicated within the parentheses. Peter Taylor (editor) ""For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor."" Peter Taylor (18 February 1922 – 17 December 1997) was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits. Perhaps his best remembered contribution is the editing of the 1957 film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"". In his obituary for Taylor, Tony Sloman gives several examples to illustrate Taylor's editing. He writes: Taylor won an Academy Award for Film Editing for ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), which was placed as the 36th best American film ever made in the 2007"
"film. In the 1946 British war drama, ""The Captive Heart"", the protagonist, Czech army captain (played by Michael Redgrave) assumes the identity of a dead British officer, in hopes of avoiding return to Dachau concentration camp. Also, in the 1957 film, ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", the protagonist (played by William Holden) has assumed the identity of his dead commanding officer, in hopes of receiving better treatment as a prisoner of war. Similarly, in ""Mad Men"", Richard ""Dick"" Whitman goes to war in Korea and his commanding officer, Lt. Donald ""Don"" Draper, is killed in an artillery barrage. With"
"Ian Charleson Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film ""Chariots of Fire"". He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film ""Gandhi"". Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in ""Guys and Dolls"", ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Fool for Love"", and ""Hamlet"", among many others. He performed numerous Shakespearean roles, and in"
"Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"" (1952) and ""Planet of the Apes"" (1963), that were both made into award-winning films. Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"", about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film, named ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", by David Lean won"
"in the world. This work resulted in Ashton receiving commissions to design more Mandarin hotels and many of the Sheraton hotels being built around the world. The projects made Ashton a wealthy man, allowing him to purchase homes in Mayfair and Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He lived in Hong Kong for 20 years. Donald M. Ashton Donald M. Ashton (26 June 1919 – 25 August 2004) was an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning English art director most noted for his work on such films as ""Billy Budd"" (1962), ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), ""Oh! What a Lovely War"" (1969) and ""Young"