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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

Star Wars
Character: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Doctor Zhivago
Character: Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Prince Feisal

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Col. Nicholson
Kafka
Character: The Chief Clerk
The Empire Strikes Back
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Return of the Jedi
Character: Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Pasternak
Character: Himself
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Character: Papst Innozenz III.

Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
The Ladykillers
Character: Professor Marcus
Murder by Death
Character: Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Cromwell
Character: King Charles I
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Character: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Raise the Titanic
Character: John Bigalow

Our Man in Havana
Character: Jim Wormold
The Man in the White Suit
Character: Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Henry 'Dutch' Holland

Scrooge
Character: Jacob Marley's Ghost
Great Expectations
Character: Herbert Pocket
H.M.S. Defiant
Character: Captain Crawford

Tunes of Glory
Character: Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
The Captain's Paradise
Character: Captain Henry St. James
The Card
Character: Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

The Horse's Mouth
Character: Gulley Jimson
The Swan
Character: Prince Albert
A Passage to India
Character: Professor Godbole

Barnacle Bill
Character: Captain William Horatio Ambrose
A Run for Your Money
Character: Whimple
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Earl of Dorincourt

A Handful of Dust
Character: Mr. Todd
The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Pol
Last Holiday
Character: George Bird

Little Dorrit
Character: William Dorrit
Malta Story
Character: Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Character: Adolf Hitler

The Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: Marcus Aurelius
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mute Witness
Character: The Reaper

Lovesick
Character: Sigmund Freud
The Ealing Comedies
Character: Self
The Prisoner
Character: The Cardinal

The Comedians
Character: Major H. O. Jones
To Paris with Love
Character: Sir Edgar Fraser
Father Brown
Character: Father Brown

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Character: Self (archive footage)
The Mudlark
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
The Scapegoat
Character: John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

Hotel Paradiso
Character: Benedict Boniface
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Character: Wilhelm Frick
A Majority of One
Character: Koichi Asano

Monsignor Quixote
Character: Father Quixote
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
Character: Self (archive footage)

Eskimo Day
Character: James
Twelfth Night
Character: Malvolio

Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Caesar
The Gift of Friendship
Character: Jocelyn Broome
Tales from Hollywood
Character: Heinrich Mann

Evensong
Character: W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Character: Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Character: Self (archive footage)

Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Character: Self (archive footage)
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Character: Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rowlandson's England
Character: Narrator
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Character: Obi Wan Kenobi
The Stratford Adventure
Character: Self
Starring Sigmund Freud
Character: (archive footage)

The Story of Star Wars
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
A Foreign Field
Character: Amos
The Comedians in Africa
Character: Self (uncredited)

Edwin
Character: Sir Fennimore Truscott
The Making of Star Wars
Character: Self

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)