Alec Guinness
Birthday
1914/04/02
Day of death
2000/08/05 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Also know as
Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, Сэр Алек Гиннесс, الک گینس
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.
Acting
(1977) Star Wars
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
(1965) Doctor Zhivago
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
(1962) Lawrence of Arabia
as Prince Feisal
(1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Nicholson
(1991) Kafka
as The Chief Clerk
(1980) The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
(1983) Return of the Jedi
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
(1965) Pasternak
as Himself
(1972) Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Papst Innozenz III.
(1948) Oliver Twist
as Fagin
(1955) The Ladykillers
as Professor Marcus
(1976) Murder by Death
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
(1970) Cromwell
as King Charles I
(1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
(1980) Raise the Titanic
as John Bigalow
(1960) Our Man in Havana
as Jim Wormold
(1951) The Man in the White Suit
as Sidney Stratton
(1951) The Lavender Hill Mob
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
(1970) Scrooge
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
(1946) Great Expectations
as Herbert Pocket
(1962) H.M.S. Defiant
as Captain Crawford
(1960) Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
(1953) The Captain's Paradise
as Captain Henry St. James
(1952) The Card
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
(1958) The Horse's Mouth
as Gulley Jimson
(1956) The Swan
as Prince Albert
(1984) A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
(1957) Barnacle Bill
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
(1949) A Run for Your Money
as Whimple
(1980) Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
(1988) A Handful of Dust
as Mr. Todd
(1966) The Quiller Memorandum
as Pol
(1950) Last Holiday
as George Bird
(1987) Little Dorrit
as William Dorrit
(1953) Malta Story
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
(1973) Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Adolf Hitler
(1964) The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Marcus Aurelius
(2007) Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1995) Mute Witness
as The Reaper
(1983) Lovesick
as Sigmund Freud
(1970) The Ealing Comedies
as Self
(1955) The Prisoner
as The Cardinal
(1967) The Comedians
as Major H. O. Jones
(1955) To Paris with Love
as Sir Edgar Fraser
(1954) Father Brown
as Father Brown
(2000) The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) The Mudlark
as Benjamin Disraeli
(1959) The Scapegoat
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
(1966) Hotel Paradiso
as Benedict Boniface
(1965) Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
as Wilhelm Frick
(1961) A Majority of One
as Koichi Asano
(1985) Monsignor Quixote
as Father Quixote
(2003) The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
as ---
(1996) Eskimo Day
as James
(1958) The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
(1970) Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
(1976) Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
(1974) The Gift of Friendship
as Jocelyn Broome
(1992) Tales from Hollywood
as Heinrich Mann
(1934) Evensong
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
(2022) Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1993) Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1987) Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) When Star Wars Ruled the World
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
(1978) The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1955) Rowlandson's England
as Narrator
(2015) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
(2015) Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
as Self
(1980) SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi Wan Kenobi
(1954) The Stratford Adventure
as Self
(2012) Starring Sigmund Freud
as (archive footage)
(2004) The Story of Star Wars
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
(1993) A Foreign Field
as Amos
(1967) The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
(1985) David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
(1984) Edwin
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
(1977) The Making of Star Wars
as Self
(2019) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
(2006) Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(1978) The South Bank Show
as Self
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Julius Caesar
(1956) The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
(1982) Smiley's People
as George Smiley
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1959) Startime
as ---
(1979) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley
(1991) Performance
as Heinrich Mann
(1989) Screen One
as Amos
(2013) Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1967) Omnibus
as Self
(1975) Apostrophes
as Self
(1971) Great Performances
as Father Quixote