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Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (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. His is 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.

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness Biography / Wiki

NameAlec Guinness
Also KnowAlec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness
GenderMale
Known ForActing
Place of BirthMarylebone, London, England, UK
Date of Birth1914-04-02
Age(as in 2022)86
Deathday2000-08-05

Alec Guinness Acting Movies

Movie NameCharacterRelease DateOverview
The LadykillersProfessor Marcus1955-12-08Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia…
Murder by DeathBensonmum1976-06-23Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning r…
Our Man in HavanaJim Wormold1960-01-27Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offe…
The Man in the White SuitSidney Stratton1951-08-07The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell…
The Lavender Hill MobHenry ‘Dutch’ Holland1951-06-28A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country….
H.M.S. DefiantCaptain Crawford1962-04-15Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa…
Tunes of GloryMaj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.1960-09-17Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit…
The Horse’s MouthGulley Jimson1958-11-11Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse …
The Captain’s ParadiseCaptain Henry St. James1953-09-28Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather …
The CardEdward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin1952-02-25A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so…
Barnacle BillCaptain William Horatio Ambrose1957-12-17A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’…
Last HolidayGeorge Bird1950-05-15George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn’t long to live. On his doctor’s advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside…
The PrisonerThe Cardinal1955-04-19A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his …
To Paris with LoveSir Edgar Fraser1955-01-01A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love….
Father BrownFather Brown1954-06-08Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul….
The ScapegoatJohn Barratt / Jacques De Gue1959-08-06An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman….
Hotel ParadisoBenedict Boniface1966-03-01Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris – Monsieur Boniface…
Situation Hopeless — But Not SeriousWilhelm Frick1965-10-13A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt…
Monsignor QuixoteFather Quixote1987-02-13Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r…
The Making of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’himself2003-09-22
Malta StoryFlight Lt. Peter Ross1953-06-01In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own s…
Hitler: The Last Ten DaysAdolf Hitler1973-04-19Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provi…
A Foreign FieldAmos1993-09-10Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They…
EdwinSir Fennimore Truscott1984-01-01Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife’s fidelit…
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness1980-12-31A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness….
The Bridge on the River KwaiCol. Nicholson1957-10-11The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence…
CromwellKing Charles I1970-09-16Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell …
ScroogeJacob Marley’s Ghost1970-11-05The classic Charles Dickens’ Christmas ghost tale told in musical form….
The SwanPrince Albert1956-04-26Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant co…
Little Lord FauntleroyEarl of Dorincourt1980-11-25Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of D…
The Quiller MemorandumPol1966-11-10After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller i…
The MudlarkBenjamin Disraeli1950-10-03It’s 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria……
The Making of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’Himself (archive footage)2000-01-01
A Majority of OneKoichi Asano1961-12-27A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the les…
Tales from Hollywood1992-10-18A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri…
Twelfth NightMalvolio1969-01-06Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John D…
Caesar and CleopatraCaesar1976-02-01Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw….
The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and OverdraftsSelf1970-09-08The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map….
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant1958-01-01A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction….
Lawrence of ArabiaPrince Feisal1962-12-11The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law…
Oliver TwistFagin1948-06-28When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Esc…
The ComediansMajor H. O. Jones1967-10-31American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti….
The Gift of FriendshipJocelyn Broome1974-09-24Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor….
The Comedians in AfricaSelf (uncredited)1967-08-31Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians….
A Run for Your MoneyWhimple1949-11-23Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort…
The Fall of the Roman EmpireMarcus Aurelius1964-03-24In the year 180 AD Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has…
Kind Hearts and CoronetsThe D’Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha1949-06-21When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu…
David Lean: A Life in FilmHimself1985-01-01A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia….
Doctor ZhivagoGen. Yevgraf Zhivago1965-12-22The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship dur…
Raise the TitanicJohn Bigalow1980-08-01To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic….
A Passage to IndiaProfessor Godbole1984-12-14Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri…
Star WarsObi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi1977-05-25Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an…
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber DuelHimself2015-12-15Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout…
Star Wars: Deleted MagicSelf (archive footage)2005-03-01This is a very interesting Star Wars documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a loo…
Little DorritWilliam Dorrit1987-12-11A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young sea…
Mute WitnessThe Reaper1995-09-28Billy is mute, but it hasn’t kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister’s boyfriend,…
SPFX: The Empire Strikes BackObi Wan Kenobi1980-09-22Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ …
KafkaThe Chief Clerk1991-11-15Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all…
Brother Sun, Sister MoonPapst Innozenz III.1972-03-03In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. H…
When Star Wars Ruled the WorldObi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)2004-09-18A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon….
Eskimo DayJames1996-04-04Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they…
The Making of Star WarsHimself1977-09-16Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted…
The Stratford AdventureSelf1954-08-02This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre. …
The Story of Star WarsObi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)2004-08-18The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i…
Great ExpectationsHerbert Pocket1946-12-26In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman….
LovesickSigmund Freud1983-02-18Sigmund Freud’s ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient….
The Empire Strikes BackObi-Wan Kenobi1980-05-20The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar…
EvensongW.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)1934-09-03Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba……
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a PrincessSelf – Actor (archive footage)2006-09-16In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rain…
Return of the JediBen ‘Obi-Wan’ Kenobi1983-05-25Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc…
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s ReturnSelf – Obi-Wan Kenobi (uncredited) (archive footage)2022-09-08A new documentary that showcases the making of the epic limited series. Features never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and visits t…
The Star Wars Holiday SpecialBen (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)1978-12-01Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet – in time for Life Day, the…
A Handful of DustMr. Todd1988-06-24English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance …
Star Wars: The Force AwakensObi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)2015-12-15Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers….
Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerObi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)2019-12-18The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener…

Writing

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
The Horse’s MouthWriter1958-11-11Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse …

Other Info

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
Grace Kelly: The American PrincessThanks1987-01-01Documentary – She came from a wealthy and competitive Philadelphia family, but the life of well-brought up society held little appeal for this acclaim…

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