Alec Guinness

Personal Info

Birthday

April 2, 1914

Day of Death

2000-08-05

(86 years old)

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.

Known For

Great Performances

Star Wars

Honest Trailers

Performance

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Return of the Jedi

The Empire Strikes Back

Filmography

2021
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
as Self
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
as (archive footage)
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2004
When Star Wars Ruled the World
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Story of Star Wars
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2000
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Eskimo Day
as James
1995
Mute Witness
as The Reaper
1993
A Foreign Field
as Amos
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1992
Tales from Hollywood
as Heinrich Mann
1991
Kafka
as The Chief Clerk
1988
A Handful of Dust
as Mr. Todd
1987
Little Dorrit
as William Dorrit
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
1985
Monsignor Quixote
as Father Quixote
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
1984
A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
Edwin
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1983
Return of the Jedi
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Lovesick
as Sigmund Freud
1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi Wan Kenobi
Raise the Titanic
as John Bigalow
The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977
The Making of Star Wars
as Self
Star Wars
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1976
Murder by Death
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
1974
The Gift of Friendship
as Jocelyn Broome
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Adolf Hitler
1972
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Papst Innozenz III.
1970
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
The Ealing Comedies
as Self
Cromwell
as King Charles I
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
1967
The Comedians
as Major H. O. Jones
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
1966
The Quiller Memorandum
as Pol
Hotel Paradiso
as Benedict Boniface
1965
Pasternak
as Himself
Doctor Zhivago
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
as Wilhelm Frick
1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Marcus Aurelius
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
as Prince Feisal
H.M.S. Defiant
as Captain Crawford
1961
A Majority of One
as Koichi Asano
1960
Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Our Man in Havana
as Jim Wormold
1959
The Scapegoat
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1958
The Horse's Mouth
as Gulley Jimson
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
1957
Barnacle Bill
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Nicholson
1956
The Swan
as Prince Albert
1955
The Ladykillers
as Professor Marcus
The Prisoner
as The Cardinal
To Paris with Love
as Sir Edgar Fraser
Rowlandson's England
as Narrator
1954
The Stratford Adventure
as Self
Father Brown
as Father Brown
1953
The Captain's Paradise
as Captain Henry St. James
Malta Story
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1952
The Card
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951
The Man in the White Suit
as Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1950
The Mudlark
as Benjamin Disraeli
Last Holiday
as George Bird
1949
A Run for Your Money
as Whimple
Kind Hearts and Coronets
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1948
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
1946
Great Expectations
as Herbert Pocket
1934
Evensong
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)