Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The South Bank Show
5.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
Smiley's People
7.7
The Oscars
7.056
Startime
6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7.565
Performance
6
Screen One
7
Talking Pictures
5
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Omnibus
7.2
Apostrophes
8.5
Great Performances
5.3
Honest Trailers
6.5
Movies
Star Wars
8.205
Doctor Zhivago
7.547
Lawrence of Arabia
7.995
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.811
Kafka
6.42
The Empire Strikes Back
8.396
Return of the Jedi
7.903
Pasternak
5
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7
Oliver Twist
7.502
The Ladykillers
7.269
Murder by Death
7.175
Cromwell
6.5
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.646
Raise the Titanic
5.346
Our Man in Havana
6.7
The Man in the White Suit
6.858
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.203
Scrooge
6.9
Great Expectations
7.276
H.M.S. Defiant
6.6
Tunes of Glory
7.06
The Captain's Paradise
5.474
The Card
6.9
The Horse's Mouth
6.784
The Swan
6.833
A Passage to India
6.812
Barnacle Bill
6.4
A Run for Your Money
6.029
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.3
A Handful of Dust
6.2
The Quiller Memorandum
5.7
Last Holiday
7.1
Little Dorrit
6.5
Malta Story
5.9
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.1
The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.488
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5
Mute Witness
6.418
Lovesick
5.5
The Ealing Comedies
0
The Prisoner
7.2
The Comedians
6.1
To Paris with Love
5.2
Father Brown
6.411
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
6.3
The Mudlark
6.5
The Scapegoat
6.8
Hotel Paradiso
5.4
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
7
A Majority of One
5.7
Monsignor Quixote
8.5
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
0
Eskimo Day
7.5
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
0
Twelfth Night
6.4
Caesar and Cleopatra
6
The Gift of Friendship
0
Tales from Hollywood
1
Evensong
0
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
6.798
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
7
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
6.5
When Star Wars Ruled the World
8.8
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.403
Rowlandson's England
0
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.26
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
6.3
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
8.6
The Stratford Adventure
6
Starring Sigmund Freud
0
The Story of Star Wars
7.119
A Foreign Field
0
The Comedians in Africa
5.3
David Lean: A Life in Film
6
Edwin
8
The Making of Star Wars
7
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.294
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
7.2