Alec Guinness
AKA: Alec Guinness de Cuffe
Birthday: 1914-04-02
Died: 2000-08-05
Birthplace: Marylebone, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Character: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Character: Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Character: Col. Nicholson
Character: The Chief Clerk
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Character: Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Character: Papst Innozenz III.
Character: Professor Marcus
Character: King Charles I
Character: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Character: Sidney Stratton
Character: Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Character: Jacob Marley's Ghost
Character: Herbert Pocket
Character: Captain Crawford
Character: Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Character: Captain Henry St. James
Character: Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Character: Professor Godbole
Character: Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Character: Earl of Dorincourt
Character: William Dorrit
Character: Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Character: Marcus Aurelius
Character: Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Major H. O. Jones
Character: Sir Edgar Fraser
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Character: John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Character: Benedict Boniface
Character: Father Quixote
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Jocelyn Broome
Character: W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Character: Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Character: Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Character: Obi Wan Kenobi
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Sir Fennimore Truscott
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)