Alec Guinness
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-04-02 (86 years old)
Deathday
2000-08-05
Place of Birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Also known As
Alec Guinness de Cuffe
Sir Alec Guinness
Сэр Алек Гиннесс
الک گینس
Alec Guinness
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.
Acting
1977
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1965
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1962
as Prince Feisal
1957
as Col. Nicholson
1991
as The Chief Clerk
1965
as Himself
1980
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1983
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1972
as Papst Innozenz III.
1948
as Fagin
1955
as Professor Marcus
1976
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1970
as King Charles I
1949
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1980
as John Bigalow
1960
as Jim Wormold
1951
as Sidney Stratton
1951
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1970
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
1946
as Herbert Pocket
1962
as Captain Crawford
1960
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1953
as Captain Henry St. James
1952
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1958
as Gulley Jimson
1956
as Prince Albert
1984
as Professor Godbole
1957
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1949
as Whimple
1980
as Earl of Dorincourt
1988
as Mr. Todd
1966
as Pol
1950
as George Bird
1987
as William Dorrit
1953
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1973
as Adolf Hitler
1964
as Marcus Aurelius
2007
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
as The Reaper
1983
as Sigmund Freud
1970
as Self
1955
as The Cardinal
1967
as Major H. O. Jones
1955
as Sir Edgar Fraser
1954
as Father Brown
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1950
as Benjamin Disraeli
1959
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1966
as Benedict Boniface
1965
as Wilhelm Frick
1961
as Koichi Asano
1985
as Father Quixote
1996
as James
1958
1970
as Malvolio
1974
as Jocelyn Broome
1976
as Caesar
1992
as Heinrich Mann
1934
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
2022
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
as Self (archive footage)
1987
as Self (archive footage)
2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
1978
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955
as Narrator
2015
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015
1980
as Obi Wan Kenobi
1954
as Self
2012
as (archive footage)
2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
1993
as Amos
1967
as Self (uncredited)
1985
as Self
1984
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1977
as Self
2019
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2006
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Production
1958
as Writer
1987
as Thanks
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