Alec Guinness
Known for: Acting
Born: April 2, 1914
Died: August 5, 2000
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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…
Known for
The Ladykillers
1955
Our Man in Havana
1960
The Man in the White Suit
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Tunes of Glory
1960
The Captain's Paradise
1953
The Card
1952
The Horse's Mouth
1958
Barnacle Bill
1957
Last Holiday
1950
Malta Story
1953
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
The Prisoner
1955
To Paris with Love
1955
Father Brown
1954
The Scapegoat
1959
Hotel Paradiso
1966
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
Monsignor Quixote
1985
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
Rowlandson's England
1955
A Foreign Field
1993
Edwin
1984
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2021
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Pasternak
1965
Murder by Death
1976
Cromwell
1970
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Scrooge
1970
The Swan
1956
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
The Mudlark
1950
A Majority of One
1961
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
Twelfth Night
1970
Tales from Hollywood
1992
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
Oliver Twist
1948
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
The Ealing Comedies
1970
The Comedians
1967
The Gift of Friendship
1974
The Comedians in Africa
1967
...On Seeing Film
1958
A Run for Your Money
1949
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
Star Wars
1977
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Raise the Titanic
1980
A Passage to India
1984
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
A Handful of Dust
1988
Little Dorrit
1987
Mute Witness
1995
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
The Making of Star Wars
1977
Kafka
1991
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Eskimo Day
1996
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
The Stratford Adventure
1954
The Story of Star Wars
2004
Great Expectations
1946
Lovesick
1983
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
Evensong
1934
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
Return of the Jedi
1983
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
The South Bank Show
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Smiley's People
1982
The Oscars
1953
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Performance
1991
Screen One
1989
Talking Pictures
2013
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Omnibus
1967
Apostrophes
1975
Great Performances
1971
MGM Parade
1955
ITV Playhouse
1967
Startime
1959
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Film '72
1971
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965