Alec Guinness
Biography
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-04-02
Place of birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
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Cast
Star Wars
1977
8.20
Doctor Zhivago
1965
7.54
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
7.99
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
7.82
Kafka
1991
6.40
Return of the Jedi
1983
7.90
Pasternak
1965
5.00
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
8.40
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
7.02
Oliver Twist
1948
7.60
The Ladykillers
1955
7.28
Murder by Death
1976
7.16
Cromwell
1970
6.50
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
7.64
Raise the Titanic
1980
5.33
Our Man in Havana
1960
6.69
The Man in the White Suit
1951
6.90
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
7.20
Scrooge
1970
6.81
Great Expectations
1946
7.29
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
6.50
Tunes of Glory
1960
7.10
The Captain's Paradise
1953
5.41
The Card
1952
6.90
The Swan
1956
6.90
The Horse's Mouth
1958
6.70
A Passage to India
1984
6.80
Barnacle Bill
1957
6.40
A Run for Your Money
1949
6.00
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
7.40
A Handful of Dust
1988
6.00
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
5.81
Last Holiday
1950
7.11
Little Dorrit
1987
6.50
Malta Story
1953
5.90
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
6.10
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
6.50
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
5.00
Mute Witness
1995
6.42
Lovesick
1983
5.50
The Ealing Comedies
1970
0.00
The Prisoner
1955
7.20
The Comedians
1967
6.08
To Paris with Love
1955
5.20
Father Brown
1954
6.40
The Mudlark
1950
6.50
The Scapegoat
1959
6.80
Hotel Paradiso
1966
5.50
A Majority of One
1961
5.70
Monsignor Quixote
1985
8.50
Eskimo Day
1996
7.50
Twelfth Night
1970
6.40
Tales from Hollywood
1992
1.00
The Gift of Friendship
1974
0.00
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
6.00
Evensong
1934
5.00
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
7.20
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
8.80
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
3.40
Rowlandson's England
1955
0.00
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
7.25
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
8.60
The Stratford Adventure
1954
6.00
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
0.00
The Story of Star Wars
2004
7.21
A Foreign Field
1993
0.00
The Comedians in Africa
1967
5.30
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
6.00
Edwin
1984
8.00
The Making of Star Wars
1977
7.00
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
6.28
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.50