ALEC GUINNESS

Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: April 2, 1914
Deathday: August 5, 2000
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK

Biography

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.

Notable work

Filmography

Starring

Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Self (archive footage)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
(archive footage)
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
James
The Reaper
Amos
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann
1991·
Kafka
The Chief Clerk
Amos
Mr. Todd
Self (archive footage)
William Dorrit
Father Quixote
1984·
Edwin
Sir Fennimore Truscott
Professor Godbole
1983·
Lovesick
Sigmund Freud
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
George Smiley
Obi Wan Kenobi
Earl of Dorincourt
John Bigalow
Obi-Wan Kenobi
George Smiley
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977·
Star Wars
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Self
Jocelyn Broome
Adolf Hitler
Papst Innozenz III.
Father Quixote
Malvolio
1970·
Scrooge
Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970·
Cromwell
King Charles I
1967·
Omnibus
Self
Self (uncredited)
Major H. O. Jones
Benedict Boniface
1965·
Pasternak
Himself
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Marcus Aurelius
Captain Crawford
Prince Feisal
Koichi Asano
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Jim Wormold
1959·
Startime
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Gulley Jimson
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Col. Nicholson
Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956·
The Swan
Prince Albert
Narrator
Sir Edgar Fraser
The Cardinal
Professor Marcus
Father Brown
Self
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Captain Henry St. James
1952·
The Card
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Julius Caesar
Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Sidney Stratton
Benjamin Disraeli
George Bird
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Fagin
Herbert Pocket
1934·
Evensong
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

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