Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness (86)

1914-04-02 - 2000-08-05 | Marylebone, London, England, UK

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.

On Movies

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Eskimo Day
  • Mute Witness
  • A Foreign Field
  • Tales from Hollywood
  • Kafka
  • A Handful of Dust
  • Little Dorrit
  • A Passage to India
  • Edwin
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Lovesick
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • Raise the Titanic
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special
  • Star Wars
  • Murder by Death
  • Caesar and Cleopatra
  • The Gift of Friendship
  • Hitler: The Last Ten Days
  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Scrooge
  • Cromwell
  • Twelfth Night
  • The Comedians
  • The Quiller Memorandum
  • Hotel Paradiso
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • H.M.S. Defiant
  • A Majority of One
  • Tunes of Glory
  • Our Man in Havana
  • The Scapegoat
  • The Horse's Mouth
  • Barnacle Bill
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The Swan
  • The Ladykillers
  • The Prisoner
  • To Paris with Love
  • Father Brown
  • The Captain's Paradise
  • Malta Story
  • The Card
  • The Man in the White Suit
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
  • The Mudlark
  • Last Holiday
  • A Run for Your Money
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Oliver Twist
  • Great Expectations
  • Evensong

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