Alec Guinness
Born:4/2/1914•Died:8/5/2000
Place of Birth:Marylebone, London, England, UK
Biography
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
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
20226.8
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
20196.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
20157.3
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
20156.3
Starring Sigmund Freud
20120.0
Hitler: The Comedy Years
20075.0
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
20067.2
When Star Wars Ruled the World
20048.8
The Story of Star Wars
20047.1
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
20037.0
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
20006.3
Eskimo Day
19968.0
Mute Witness
19956.4
A Foreign Field
19930.0
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
19937.0
Tales from Hollywood
19921.0
Kafka
19916.4
A Handful of Dust
19886.2
Little Dorrit
19876.5
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
19876.5
Monsignor Quixote
19858.5
David Lean: A Life in Film
19856.0
A Passage to India
19846.8
Edwin
19848.0
Return of the Jedi
19837.9
Lovesick
19835.5
Little Lord Fauntleroy
19807.4
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
19808.6
Raise the Titanic
19805.4
The Empire Strikes Back
19808.4
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
19780.0
The Star Wars Holiday Special
19783.4
The Making of Star Wars
19777.0
Star Wars
19778.2
Murder by Death
19767.2
Caesar and Cleopatra
19766.0
The Gift of Friendship
19740.0
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
19736.1
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
19727.0
Scrooge
19706.9
The Ealing Comedies
19700.0
Cromwell
19706.5
Twelfth Night
19706.4
The Comedians
19676.1
The Comedians in Africa
19675.3
The Quiller Memorandum
19665.7
Hotel Paradiso
19665.4
Pasternak
19655.0
Doctor Zhivago
19657.5
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
19657.0
The Fall of the Roman Empire
19646.5
Lawrence of Arabia
19628.0
H.M.S. Defiant
19626.5
A Majority of One
19615.7
Tunes of Glory
19607.2
Our Man in Havana
19606.7
The Scapegoat
19596.8
The Horse's Mouth
19586.8
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
19580.0
Barnacle Bill
19576.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai
19577.8
The Swan
19566.9
The Ladykillers
19557.3
The Prisoner
19557.2
To Paris with Love
19555.2
Rowlandson's England
19550.0
The Stratford Adventure
19546.0
Father Brown
19546.3
The Captain's Paradise
19535.5
Malta Story
19535.9
The Card
19526.9
The Man in the White Suit
19516.9
The Lavender Hill Mob
19517.2
The Mudlark
19506.5
Last Holiday
19507.2
A Run for Your Money
19495.9
Kind Hearts and Coronets
19497.7
Oliver Twist
19487.5
Great Expectations
19467.3
Evensong
19340.0