Alec Guinness

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Acting

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

• Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies (2022)
• A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland) (2021)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel (2015)
• Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
• Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
• Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess (2006)
• When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
• The Story of Star Wars (2004)
• The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (2000)
• Eskimo Day (1996)
• Mute Witness (1995)
• A Foreign Field (1993)
• Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993)
• Tales from Hollywood (1992)
• Kafka (1991)
• A Handful of Dust (1988)
• Little Dorrit (1987)
• Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
• Monsignor Quixote (1985)
• David Lean: A Life in Film (1985)
• A Passage to India (1984)
• Edwin (1984)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Lovesick (1983)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
• SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Raise the Titanic (1980)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness (1978)
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
• The Making of Star Wars (1977)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)
• The Gift of Friendship (1974)
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• Scrooge (1970)
• The Ealing Comedies (1970)
• Cromwell (1970)
• Twelfth Night (1970)
• The Comedians (1967)
• The Comedians in Africa (1967)
• Lionpower from MGM (1967)
• The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
• Hotel Paradiso (1966)
• Pasternak (1965)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
• A Majority of One (1961)
• Tunes of Glory (1960)
• Our Man in Havana (1960)
• The Scapegoat (1959)
• The Horse's Mouth (1958)
• The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958)
• ...On Seeing Film (1958)
• Barnacle Bill (1957)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• The Swan (1956)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• The Prisoner (1955)
• To Paris with Love (1955)
• Rowlandson's England (1955)
• The Stratford Adventure (1954)
• Father Brown (1954)
• The Captain's Paradise (1953)
• Malta Story (1953)
• The Card (1952)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
• The Mudlark (1950)
• Last Holiday (1950)
• A Run for Your Money (1949)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Evensong (1934)