Alec Guinness

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1914-04-02

Deathday 2000-08-05 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Marylebone, London, England, UK

Also Known As Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, Сэр Алек Гиннесс

Alec Guinness

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.

Known For

Actor

2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

2013
Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Starring Sigmund Freud

as (archive footage)

2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2004
When Star Wars Ruled the World

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2004
The Story of Star Wars

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2003
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'

as Self (archive footage)

2000
1996
Eskimo Day

as James

1995
Mute Witness

as The Reaper

1993
1993
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1992
Tales from Hollywood

as Heinrich Mann

1991
Kafka

as The Chief Clerk

1991
Performance

as Heinrich Mann

1989
Screen One

as Amos

1988
A Handful of Dust

as Mr. Todd

1987
Little Dorrit

as William Dorrit

1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess

as Self (archive footage)

1985
Monsignor Quixote

as Father Quixote

1984
A Passage to India

as Professor Godbole

1984
Edwin

as Sir Fennimore Truscott

1983
Return of the Jedi

as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

1983
Lovesick

as Sigmund Freud

1982
Smiley's People

as George Smiley

1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Earl of Dorincourt

1980
1980
Raise the Titanic

as John Bigalow

1980
The Empire Strikes Back

as Obi-Wan Kenobi

1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as George Smiley

1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special

as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

1977
Star Wars

as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

1976
Murder by Death

as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

1976
1975
Apostrophes

as Self

1974
The Gift of Friendship

as Jocelyn Broome

1973
1972
Brother Sun, Sister Moon

as Papst Innozenz III.

1971
Great Performances

as Father Quixote

1970
Scrooge

as Jacob Marley's Ghost

1970
Cromwell

as King Charles I

1970
Twelfth Night

as Malvolio

1967
The Comedians

as Major H. O. Jones

1967
The Comedians in Africa

as Self (uncredited)

1967
Omnibus

as Self

1966
Hotel Paradiso

as Benedict Boniface

1965
Pasternak

as Himself

1965
Doctor Zhivago

as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire

as Marcus Aurelius

1962
Lawrence of Arabia

as Prince Feisal

1962
H.M.S. Defiant

as Captain Crawford

1961
A Majority of One

as Koichi Asano

1960
Tunes of Glory

as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

1960
Our Man in Havana

as Jim Wormold

1959
The Scapegoat

as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

1958
The Horse's Mouth

as Gulley Jimson

1957
Barnacle Bill

as Captain William Horatio Ambrose

1957
1956
The Swan

as Prince Albert

1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

1955
The Ladykillers

as Professor Marcus

1955
The Prisoner

as The Cardinal

1955
To Paris with Love

as Sir Edgar Fraser

1955
1954
Father Brown

as Father Brown

1953
The Captain's Paradise

as Captain Henry St. James

1953
Malta Story

as Flight Lt. Peter Ross

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
The Card

as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

1951
The Man in the White Suit

as Sidney Stratton

1951
The Lavender Hill Mob

as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Julius Caesar

1950
The Mudlark

as Benjamin Disraeli

1950
Last Holiday

as George Bird

1949
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

1948
Oliver Twist

as Fagin

1946
Great Expectations

as Herbert Pocket

1934
Evensong

as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

Writer

1958