Alec Guinness

DOB: 1914-04-02

DOD: 2000-08-05

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.

Starred In

1977
Movie

Star Wars

1965
Movie

Doctor Zhivago

1962
Movie

Lawrence of Arabia

1991
Movie

Kafka

1983
Movie

Return of the Jedi

1965
Movie

Pasternak

1948
Movie

Oliver Twist

1955
Movie

The Ladykillers

1976
Movie

Murder by Death

1970
Movie

Cromwell

1980
Movie

Raise the Titanic

1960
Movie

Our Man in Havana

1970
Movie

Scrooge

1946
Movie

Great Expectations

1962
Movie

H.M.S. Defiant

1960
Movie

Tunes of Glory

1952
Movie

The Card

1958
Movie

The Horse's Mouth

1956
Movie

The Swan

1984
Movie

A Passage to India

1957
Movie

Barnacle Bill

1988
Movie

A Handful of Dust

1950
Movie

Last Holiday

1987
Movie

Little Dorrit

1953
Movie

Malta Story

1995
Movie

Mute Witness

1983
Movie

Lovesick

1955
Movie

The Prisoner

1967
Movie

The Comedians

1955
Movie

To Paris with Love

1954
Movie

Father Brown

1950
Movie

The Mudlark

1959
Movie

The Scapegoat

1966
Movie

Hotel Paradiso

1961
Movie

A Majority of One

1985
Movie

Monsignor Quixote

1996
Movie

Eskimo Day

1970
Movie

Twelfth Night

1934
Movie

Evensong

1993
Movie

A Foreign Field

1984
Movie

Edwin

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1959
Tv

Startime

1991
Tv

Performance

1989
Tv

Screen One

1967
Tv

Omnibus

1975
Tv

Apostrophes