Alec Guinness
- Born
- April 2, 1914 · Marylebone, London, England, UK
- Died
- August 5, 2000
- Actor
- Writer
- soundtrack
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.
Filmography · 21 credits
- 1991Kafka · Actor (The Chief Clerk)
- 1984A Passage to India · Actor (Professor Godbole)
- 1983Lovesick · Actor (Sigmund Freud)
- 1980Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back · Actor (Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi)
- 1980Raise the Titanic · Actor (John Bigalow)
- 1977Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope · Actor (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi)
- 1976Murder by Death · Actor (Bensonmum)
- 1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days · Actor (Adolf Hitler)
- 1970Cromwell · Actor (King Charles 'Stuart' I)
- 1967The Comedians · Actor (Major H. O. Jones)
- 1966The Quiller Memorandum · Actor (Pol)
- 1965Doctor Zhivago · Actor (Yevgraf)
- 1965Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious · Actor (Wilhelm Frick)
- 1964The Fall of the Roman Empire · Actor (Marcus Aurelius)
- 1962Lawrence of Arabia · Actor (Prince Faisal)
- 1961A Majority of One · Actor (Koichi Asano)
- 1959Our Man in Havana · Actor (Jim Wormold)
- 1957The Bridge on the River Kwai · Actor (Colonel Nicholson)
- 1957All at Sea · Actor (Capt. William Horatio Ambrose)
- 1956The Swan · Actor (Prince Albert)
- 1950The Mudlark · Actor (Benjamin Disraeli)