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.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Birthday
4/2/1914
Star Wars
8.2
Doctor Zhivago
7.5
Lawrence of Arabia
8
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8
Kafka
6.4
The Empire Strikes Back
8.4
Return of the Jedi
7.9
Pasternak
5
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7
Oliver Twist
7.5
The Ladykillers
7.3
Murder by Death
7.2
Cromwell
6.6
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.7
Raise the Titanic
5.3
Our Man in Havana
6.8
The Man in the White Suit
6.8
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.2
Scrooge
6.9
Great Expectations
7.3
H.M.S. Defiant
6.5
Tunes of Glory
7.1
The Captain's Paradise
5.5
The Card
6.9
The Horse's Mouth
6.8
The Swan
6.9
A Passage to India
6.8
Barnacle Bill
6.3
A Run for Your Money
5.9
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.3
A Handful of Dust
6.1
The Quiller Memorandum
5.7
Last Holiday
7.3
Little Dorrit
6.5
Malta Story
5.8
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.1
The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.5
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5
Mute Witness
6.3
Lovesick
5.5
The Ealing Comedies
0
The Prisoner
7.2
The Comedians
6.1
To Paris with Love
5
Father Brown
6.2
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
6
The Mudlark
6.9
The Scapegoat
6.8
Hotel Paradiso
5.4
Situation Hopeless - But Not Serious
7
A Majority of One
5.7
Monsignor Quixote
8.5
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
7
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
0
Eskimo Day
8
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
0
Twelfth Night
6.4
Caesar and Cleopatra
6
The Gift of Friendship
0
Tales from Hollywood
1
Evensong
0
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
6.8
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
7
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
6.5
When Star Wars Ruled the World
8.7
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.3
Rowlandson's England
0
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.3
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
6.2
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
8.6
The Stratford Adventure
6
Starring Sigmund Freud
0
The Story of Star Wars
7
A Foreign Field
0
The Comedians in Africa
5.3
David Lean: A Life in Film
6
Edwin
8
The Making of Star Wars
7
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.3
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
7.2