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.
Filmography
all 102
Movies 87
self 27
TV Shows 15
Narrator 1
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Movie
6.62
The D'Ascoyne Family
Once More with Ealing (2019)
Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Movie
6.86
Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures (2013)
TV
ArchiveFootage
Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
Movie
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess (2006)
Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi
When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Story of Star Wars (2004)
Movie
The Reaper
Mute Witness (1995)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993)
Movie
Heinrich Mann
Tales from Hollywood (1992)
Movie
The Chief Clerk
Kafka (1991)
Movie
6
Heinrich Mann
Performance (1991)
TV
Mr. Todd
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Movie
William Dorrit
Little Dorrit (1987)
Movie
Self (archive footage) / Thanks
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
Movie
Father Quixote
Monsignor Quixote (1985)
Movie
Professor Godbole
A Passage to India (1984)
Movie
6
Sir Fennimore Truscott
Edwin (1984)
Movie
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Movie
6.06
Sigmund Freud
Lovesick (1983)
Movie
1
George Smiley
Smiley's People (1982)
TV
6
Earl of Dorincourt
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Movie
Obi Wan Kenobi
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Movie
John Bigalow
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Movie
6
Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Movie
6.02
George Smiley
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
TV
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Movie
Obi-Wan 'Ben' Kenobi
Star Wars (1977)
Movie
6.1
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Murder by Death (1976)
Movie
6
Julius Caesar
Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)
Movie
Jocelyn Broome
The Gift of Friendship (1974)
Movie
Adolf Hitler
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Movie
Pope Innocent III
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Movie
Father Quixote
Great Performances (1971)
TV
1
Jacob Marley's Ghost
Scrooge (1970)
Movie
10
King Charles I
Cromwell (1970)
Movie
Malvolio
Twelfth Night (1970)
Movie
Self - Reader
Solo (1970)
TV
Major H. O. Jones
The Comedians (1967)
Movie
Self
Omnibus (1967)
TV
Benedict Boniface
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
Movie
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Movie
1
Wilhelm Frick
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965)
Movie
Marcus Aurelius
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Movie
Prince Feisal
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Movie
5.02
Captain Crawford
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
Movie
Koichi Asano
A Majority of One (1961)
Movie
6
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Movie
Jim Wormold
Our Man in Havana (1960)
Movie
4
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
The Scapegoat (1959)
Movie
Gulley Jimson
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Movie
6
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Barnacle Bill (1957)
Movie
Col. Nicholson
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Movie
6.23
Self - Set of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
The Steve Allen Show (1956)
TV
Prince Albert
The Swan (1956)
Movie
Professor Marcus
The Ladykillers (1955)
Movie
5.75
The Cardinal
The Prisoner (1955)
Movie
6
Narrator
Rowlandson's England (1955)
Movie
Col. Sir Edgar Fraser
To Paris with Love (1955)
Movie
Father Brown
Father Brown (1954)
Movie
1
Captain Henry St. James
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Movie
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Malta Story (1953)
Movie
Denry Machin
The Card (1952)
Movie
Julius Caesar
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
TV
8.33
Sidney Stratton
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Movie
5
Benjamin Disraeli
The Mudlark (1950)
Movie
George Bird
Last Holiday (1950)
Movie
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Movie
4.25
Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
TV
6
Herbert Pocket
Great Expectations (1946)
Movie
5.67
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Evensong (1934)
Movie
The D'Ascoyne Family
Those British Faces: A Tribute to Dennis Price 1915-1973
Movie
Gallery
Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1914-04-02
Deathday2000-08-05 (86 years old)
Birth NameAlec Guinness de Cuffe
Birth PlaceMarylebone, United Kingdom
ReligionCatholic Church
Height176-centimeter
RelationshipsMerula Salaman (1938 - 2000)
ChildrenMatthew Guinness
FatherAndrew Geddes
MotherAgnes Cuff
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesPaddington, United Kingdom
Also Known AsAlec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, Сэр Алек Гиннесс
AwardsHonorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Companion of Honour, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Society of London Theatre Special Award, Shakespeare Prize, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, Knight Bachelor, Academy Award for Best Actor, Laurence Olivier Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Academy Fellowship Award, Academy Honorary Award
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