Alec Guinness
Born in Marylebone, London, England, UK — Apr 02 1914• Died Aug 05 2000
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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 Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy…
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Alec Guinness's Credits
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Great Performances
Father Quixote
Star Wars
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Omnibus
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Performance
Heinrich Mann
MGM Parade
self
The Empire Strikes Back
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Startime
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Return of the Jedi
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
Lawrence of Arabia
Prince Feisal
Screen One
Amos
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Julius Caesar
Doctor Zhivago
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Col. Nicholson
Smiley's People
George Smiley
Mute Witness
The Reaper
The Ladykillers
Professor Marcus
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Earl of Dorincourt
Kafka
The Chief Clerk
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Great Expectations
Herbert Pocket
A Passage to India
Professor Godbole
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Murder by Death
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Marcus Aurelius
Scrooge
Jacob Marley's Ghost
The Scapegoat
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Cromwell
King Charles I
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Adolf Hitler
The Story of Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Quiller Memorandum
Pol
The Swan
Prince Albert
Little Dorrit
William Dorrit
Raise the Titanic
John Bigalow
Last Holiday
George Bird
The Card
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Lovesick
Sigmund Freud
The Man in the White Suit
Sidney Stratton
The Making of Star Wars
Self
Malta Story
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
H.M.S. Defiant
Captain Crawford
Tunes of Glory
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Eskimo Day
James
The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson
Barnacle Bill
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
The Mudlark
Benjamin Disraeli
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Wilhelm Frick
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
Father Brown
Father Brown
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Self
A Foreign Field
Amos
The Prisoner
The Cardinal
The Comedians
Major H. O. Jones
Hotel Paradiso
Benedict Boniface
A Handful of Dust
Mr. Todd
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Obi Wan Kenobi
Twelfth Night
Malvolio
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry 'Dutch' Holland
A Majority of One
Koichi Asano
Evensong
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Self (archive footage)
The Captain's Paradise
Captain Henry St. James
Tales from Hollywood
Heinrich Mann
Starring Sigmund Freud
(archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
A Run for Your Money
Whimple
The Stratford Adventure
Self
Monsignor Quixote
Father Quixote
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Papst Innozenz III.
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold
The Gift of Friendship
Jocelyn Broome
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
To Paris with Love
Sir Edgar Fraser
Edwin
Sir Fennimore Truscott
The Ealing Comedies
Self
Pasternak
Self (archive footage)
Rowlandson's England
Narrator
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
Self (archive footage)
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness