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Alec Guinness1914 - 2000

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Actor

Popularity

3.1

Famous

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.

Credits

Star Wars

1977

as: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

8.2(21,140)

Doctor Zhivago

1965

as: Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

7.6(1,182)

2.9

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

as: Prince Feisal

8(3,130)

5.1

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

as: Col. Nicholson

7.8(2,180)

3.1

Kafka

1991

as: The Chief Clerk

6.4(140)

1.1

Return of the Jedi

1983

as: Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

7.9(16,058)

9.9

Pasternak

1965

as: Himself

5(1)

0.1

The Empire Strikes Back

1980

as: Obi-Wan Kenobi

8.4(17,394)

10.6

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972

as: Papst Innozenz III.

7(127)

Oliver Twist

1948

as: Fagin

7.5(237)

1.7

The Ladykillers

1955

as: Professor Marcus

7.3(492)

1.2

Murder by Death

1976

as: Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

7.2(829)

1.7

Cromwell

1970

as: King Charles I

6.5(92)

0.8

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

as: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

7.7(561)

1.1

Raise the Titanic

1980

as: John Bigalow

5.4(101)

1.1

Our Man in Havana

1960

as: Jim Wormold

6.7(109)

0.4

The Man in the White Suit

1951

as: Sidney Stratton

6.9(189)

0.7

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951

as: Henry 'Dutch' Holland

7.2(254)

0.7

Scrooge

1970

as: Jacob Marley's Ghost

6.9(146)

1.9

Great Expectations

1946

as: Herbert Pocket

7.3(343)

1.5

H.M.S. Defiant

1962

as: Captain Crawford

6.5(47)

0.5

Tunes of Glory

1960

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

7.2(57)

0.4

The Captain's Paradise

1953

as: Captain Henry St. James

5.5(18)

0.4

The Card

1952

as: Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

6.9(39)

0.5

The Swan

1956

as: Prince Albert

6.9(29)

0.7

The Horse's Mouth

1958

as: Gulley Jimson

6.8(44)

0.8

A Passage to India

1984

as: Professor Godbole

6.8(298)

1.2

Barnacle Bill

1957

as: Captain William Horatio Ambrose

6.4(21)

0.5

A Run for Your Money

1949

as: Whimple

5.9(16)

0.4

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

as: Earl of Dorincourt

7.4(291)

0.8

A Handful of Dust

1988

as: Mr. Todd

6.2(39)

0.8

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

as: Pol

5.7(79)

0.6

Last Holiday

1950

as: George Bird

7.2(46)

0.8

Little Dorrit

1987

as: William Dorrit

6.5(11)

0.5

Malta Story

1953

as: Flight Lt. Peter Ross

5.9(18)

0.8

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as: Adolf Hitler

6.1(36)

0.7

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964

as: Marcus Aurelius

6.5(204)

1.9

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007

as: Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

5(1)

0.4

Mute Witness

1995

as: The Reaper

6.4(139)

0.6

Lovesick

1983

as: Sigmund Freud

5.5(12)

0.6

The Ealing Comedies

1970

as: Self

0(0)

0.1

The Prisoner

1955

as: The Cardinal

7.2(20)

0.3

The Comedians

1967

as: Major H. O. Jones

6.1(39)

0.8

To Paris with Love

1955

as: Sir Edgar Fraser

5.2(6)

0.5

Father Brown

1954

as: Father Brown

6.3(27)

0.2

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

2000

as: Self (archive footage)

6.3(3)

0.2

The Mudlark

1950

as: Benjamin Disraeli

6.5(8)

0.5

The Scapegoat

1959

as: John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

6.8(34)

0.2

Hotel Paradiso

1966

as: Benedict Boniface

5.4(10)

0.2

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

1965

as: Wilhelm Frick

7(5)

0.2

A Majority of One

1961

as: Koichi Asano

5.7(15)

0.3

Monsignor Quixote

1985

as: Father Quixote

8.5(1)

0.4

The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'

2003

as: Self (archive footage)

7(3)

0.2

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

1978

0(0)

0.2

Eskimo Day

1996

as: James

8(1)

0.3

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

1958

as: Self

0(0)

0.1

Twelfth Night

1970

as: Malvolio

6.4(4)

0.2

Tales from Hollywood

1992

as: Heinrich Mann

1(1)

0.1

The Gift of Friendship

1974

as: Jocelyn Broome

0(0)

0.2

Caesar and Cleopatra

1976

as: Caesar

6(1)

0.3

Evensong

1934

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

0(0)

0.2

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

2022

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

6.8(993)

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

1993

as: Self (archive footage)

7(3)

0.4

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987

as: Self (archive footage)

6.5(2)

0.2

When Star Wars Ruled the World

2004

as: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

8.8(10)

0.4

The Star Wars Holiday Special

1978

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

3.4(475)

1.9

Rowlandson's England

1955

as: Narrator

0(0)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015

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

7.3(19,735)

17.9

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

2015

as: Self

6.3(13)

0.8

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

1980

as: Obi Wan Kenobi

8.6(10)

0.5

The Stratford Adventure

1954

as: Self

6(3)

0.2

Starring Sigmund Freud

2012

as: (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

The Story of Star Wars

2004

as: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

7.1(21)

0.5

A Foreign Field

1993

as: Amos

0(0)

0.3

The Comedians in Africa

1967

as: Self (uncredited)

5.3(3)

0.3

David Lean: A Life in Film

1985

as: Self

6(1)

0.2

Edwin

1984

as: Sir Fennimore Truscott

8(1)

0.3

The Making of Star Wars

1977

as: Self

7(37)

0.7

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019

as: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

6.3(10,180)

19.7

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

2006

as: Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.2(6)

0.1