D'entre a suya ampla filmografía, se puet destacar bellas cintas como In Which We Serve (1942, con Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles y Celia Johnson), Brief Encounter (1945, con Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond y Everley Gregg), Great Expectations (1946, con John Mills, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt y Finlay Currie), The Sound Barrier (1952, con Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin y Denholm Elliott), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, con William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins y Sessue Hayakawa), Lawrence of Arabia (1962, con Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins y Omar Sharif), Doctor Zhivago (1965, con Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness y Tom Courtenay), Ryan's Daughter (1970, con Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones, Trevor Howard y Leo McKern), A Passage to India (1984, con Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox y Alec Guinness).