Acting
Alec Guinness
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.
Movies with Alec Guinness
Star Wars
1977
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Return of the Jedi
1983
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Doctor Zhivago
1965
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Oliver Twist
1948
Murder by Death
1976
Great Expectations
1946
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Mute Witness
1995
The Ladykillers
1955
A Passage to India
1984
The Scapegoat
1959
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
Raise the Titanic
1980
Monsignor Quixote
1985
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Scrooge
1970
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
The Making of Star Wars
1977
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Cromwell
1970
Twelfth Night
1970
The Man in the White Suit
1951
A Handful of Dust
1988
Little Dorrit
1987
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Kafka
1991
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
Tunes of Glory
1960
Barnacle Bill
1957
Last Holiday
1950
The Comedians
1967
The Card
1952
Malta Story
1953
Our Man in Havana
1960
The Swan
1956
Hotel Paradiso
1966
Lovesick
1983
Edwin
1984
Pasternak
1965
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
The Story of Star Wars
2004
The Horse's Mouth
1958
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
A Foreign Field
1993
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
Eskimo Day
1996
The Prisoner
1955
The Captain's Paradise
1953
Father Brown
1954
The Mudlark
1950
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
The Comedians in Africa
1967
Tales from Hollywood
1992
A Run for Your Money
1949
To Paris with Love
1955
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
...On Seeing Film
1958
A Majority of One
1961
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
Rowlandson's England
1955
The Gift of Friendship
1974
The Ealing Comedies
1970
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
The Stratford Adventure
1954
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2021
Evensong
1934
TV Shows with Alec Guinness
Great Performances
1971
ITV Playhouse
1967
Apostrophes
1975
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
MGM Parade
1955
The South Bank Show
1978
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Screen One
1989
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Performance
1991
Film '72
1971
Startime
1959
Talking Pictures
2013
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Smiley's People
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951