Alec Guinness
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Star Wars
1977
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Kafka
1991
Pasternak
1965
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Return of the Jedi
1983
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Oliver Twist
1948
The Ladykillers
1955
Murder by Death
1976
Cromwell
1970
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Raise the Titanic
1980
Our Man in Havana
1960
The Man in the White Suit
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Scrooge
1970
Great Expectations
1946
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Tunes of Glory
1960
The Captain's Paradise
1953
The Card
1952
The Horse's Mouth
1958
The Swan
1956
A Passage to India
1984
Barnacle Bill
1957
A Run for Your Money
1949
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
A Handful of Dust
1988
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Last Holiday
1950
Little Dorrit
1987
Malta Story
1953
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
Mute Witness
1995
Lovesick
1983
The Ealing Comedies
1970
The Prisoner
1955
The Comedians
1967
To Paris with Love
1955
Father Brown
1954
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
The Mudlark
1950
The Scapegoat
1959
Hotel Paradiso
1966
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
A Majority of One
1961
Monsignor Quixote
1985
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
Eskimo Day
1996
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
Twelfth Night
1970
The Gift of Friendship
1974
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
Tales from Hollywood
1992
Evensong
1934
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
Rowlandson's England
1955
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
The Stratford Adventure
1954
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Story of Star Wars
2004
A Foreign Field
1993
The Comedians in Africa
1967
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
Edwin
1984
The Making of Star Wars
1977
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
Lionpower from MGM
1967
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2021
The South Bank Show
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Smiley's People
1982
The Oscars
1953
Startime
1959
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Performance
1991
Screen One
1989
Talking Pictures
2013
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Omnibus
1967
Apostrophes
1975
Great Performances
1971
MGM Parade
1955
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015