Alec Guinness

Acting

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.

Fullname:

Alec Guinness

Date of Birth:

1914-04-02

Country:

Marylebone, London, England, UK

Media of

Alec Guinness

Photos (21)

Filmography of

Alec Guinness

Found 80 movies in total

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

... 2019

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

... 2015

Starring Sigmund Freud

(archive footage)

... 2012

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

... 2007

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

Self - Actor (archive footage)

... 2006

When Star Wars Ruled the World

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

... 2004

The Story of Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

... 2004

... 2000

Eskimo Day

James

... 1996

Mute Witness

The Reaper

... 1995

... 1993

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Self (archive footage)

... 1993

Tales from Hollywood

Heinrich Mann

... 1992

Kafka

The Chief Clerk

... 1991

... 1988

Little Dorrit

William Dorrit

... 1987

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Self (archive footage)

... 1987

Monsignor Quixote

Father Quixote

... 1985

A Passage to India

Professor Godbole

... 1984

Edwin

Sir Fennimore Truscott

... 1984

Return of the Jedi

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

... 1983

Lovesick

Sigmund Freud

... 1983

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Earl of Dorincourt

... 1980

... 1980

Raise the Titanic

John Bigalow

... 1980

The Empire Strikes Back

Obi-Wan Kenobi

... 1980

The Star Wars Holiday Special

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

... 1978

... 1977

Star Wars

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

... 1977

Murder by Death

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

... 1976

... 1976

The Gift of Friendship

Jocelyn Broome

... 1974

... 1973

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Papst Innozenz III.

... 1972

Scrooge

Jacob Marley's Ghost

... 1970

... 1970

Cromwell

King Charles I

... 1970

Twelfth Night

Malvolio

... 1970

The Comedians

Major H. O. Jones

... 1967

The Comedians in Africa

Self (uncredited)

... 1967

... 1966

Hotel Paradiso

Benedict Boniface

... 1966

Pasternak

Himself

... 1965

Doctor Zhivago

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

... 1965

... 1964

Lawrence of Arabia

Prince Feisal

... 1962

H.M.S. Defiant

Captain Crawford

... 1962

A Majority of One

Koichi Asano

... 1961

Tunes of Glory

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

... 1960

Our Man in Havana

Jim Wormold

... 1960

The Scapegoat

John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

... 1959

The Horse's Mouth

Gulley Jimson

... 1958

Barnacle Bill

Captain William Horatio Ambrose

... 1957

... 1957

The Swan

Prince Albert

... 1956

The Ladykillers

Professor Marcus

... 1955

The Prisoner

The Cardinal

... 1955

To Paris with Love

Sir Edgar Fraser

... 1955

... 1955

... 1954

Father Brown

Father Brown

... 1954

The Captain's Paradise

Captain Henry St. James

... 1953

Malta Story

Flight Lt. Peter Ross

... 1953

The Card

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

... 1952

The Man in the White Suit

Sidney Stratton

... 1951

The Lavender Hill Mob

Henry 'Dutch' Holland

... 1951

The Mudlark

Benjamin Disraeli

... 1950

Last Holiday

George Bird

... 1950

... 1949

Kind Hearts and Coronets

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

... 1949

Oliver Twist

Fagin

... 1948

Great Expectations

Herbert Pocket

... 1946

Evensong

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

... 1934