Alec Guinness

Born: 1914-04-02, Marylebone, London, England, UK

Died: 2000-08-05

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.

Filmography

• Great Performances (1971)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Smiley's People (1982)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Screen One (1989)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
• Mute Witness (1995)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
• Raise the Titanic (1980)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
• Monsignor Quixote (1985)
• A Passage to India (1984)
• H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
• Cromwell (1970)
• Little Dorrit (1987)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• The Comedians (1967)
• Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
• Fratello sole, sorella luna (1972)