Alec Guinness
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.
Also known as: Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness
Filmography (24 movies)
Mute Witness
1995 • 1h 35m
Kafka
1991 • 1h 38m
A Passage to India
1984 • 2h 43m
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980 • 1h 43m
Raise the Titanic
1980 • 1h 55m
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 • 2h 4m
Star Wars
1977 • 2h 1m
Murder by Death
1976 • 1h 34m
Cromwell
1970 • 2h 20m
Scrooge
1970 • 1h 53m
The Quiller Memorandum
1966 • 1h 44m
Doctor Zhivago
1965 • 3h 13m
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 • 3h 8m
H.M.S. Defiant
1962 • 1h 41m
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 • 3h 48m
Our Man in Havana
1960 • 1h 51m
Tunes of Glory
1960 • 1h 46m
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 • 2h 41m
The Ladykillers
1955 • 1h 31m
The Man in the White Suit
1951 • 1h 25m
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 • 1h 18m
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 • 1h 44m
Oliver Twist
1948 • 2h 1m
Great Expectations
1946 • 1h 58m
