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
7.6
Performance
6
Screen One
7
Talking Pictures
5
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Omnibus
7.2
Apostrophes
8.5
Great Performances
5.5
Honest Trailers
6.609
Movies
Star Wars
8.206
Doctor Zhivago
7.5
Lawrence of Arabia
7.996
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.817
Kafka
6.42
Return of the Jedi
7.905
Pasternak
5
The Empire Strikes Back
8.396
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7
Oliver Twist
7.5
The Ladykillers
7.275
Murder by Death
7.2
Cromwell
6.5
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.649
Raise the Titanic
5.3
Our Man in Havana
6.73
The Man in the White Suit
6.864
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.203
Scrooge
6.864
Great Expectations
7.3
H.M.S. Defiant
6.6
Tunes of Glory
7.1
The Captain's Paradise
5.474
The Card
6.9
The Swan
6.833
The Horse's Mouth
6.784
A Passage to India
6.8
Barnacle Bill
6.4
A Run for Your Money
6.029
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.4
A Handful of Dust
6.163
The Quiller Memorandum
5.7
Last Holiday
7.083
Little Dorrit
6.5
Malta Story
5.9
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.1
The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.49
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5
Mute Witness
6.389
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
Tales from Hollywood
1
The Gift of Friendship
0
Caesar and Cleopatra
6
Evensong
0
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
7
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
6.5
When Star Wars Ruled the World
8.8
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.4
Rowlandson's England
0
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.258
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
6.288
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
7.2
Lionpower from MGM
4.5