Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-04-02

Deathday

2000-08-05 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Alec Guinness de Cuffe
Sir Alec Guinness
Сэр Алек Гиннесс
الک گینس

Alec Guinness

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.

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Acting

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

2015		Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015		Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel as Self

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2012

Starring Sigmund Freud as (archive footage)

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2004		When Star Wars Ruled the World as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004		The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2003

The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia' as Self (archive footage)

2000

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' as Self (archive footage)

1996

Eskimo Day as James

1995

Mute Witness as The Reaper

1993		A Foreign Field as Amos
1993		Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)

1992

Tales from Hollywood as Heinrich Mann

1991		Kafka as The Chief Clerk
1991		Performance as Heinrich Mann

1989

Screen One as Amos

1988

A Handful of Dust as Mr. Todd

1987		Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
1987		Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)

1985		Monsignor Quixote as Father Quixote
1985		David Lean: A Life in Film as Self

1984		A Passage to India as Professor Godbole
1984		Edwin as Sir Fennimore Truscott

1983		Return of the Jedi as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983		Lovesick as Sigmund Freud

1982

Smiley's People as George Smiley

1980		Little Lord Fauntleroy as Earl of Dorincourt
1980		SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Obi Wan Kenobi
1980		Raise the Titanic as John Bigalow
1980		The Empire Strikes Back as Obi-Wan Kenobi

1979

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley

1978		The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978		The Star Wars Holiday Special as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978		The South Bank Show as Self

1977		The Making of Star Wars as Self
1977		Star Wars as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

1976		Murder by Death as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976		Caesar and Cleopatra as Caesar

1975

Apostrophes as Self

1974

The Gift of Friendship as Jocelyn Broome

1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Adolf Hitler

1972

Brother Sun, Sister Moon as Papst Innozenz III.

1971

Great Performances as Father Quixote

1970		Scrooge as Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970		The Ealing Comedies as Self
1970		Cromwell as King Charles I
1970		Twelfth Night as Malvolio

1967		The Comedians as Major H. O. Jones
1967		Omnibus as Self
1967		The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)

1966		The Quiller Memorandum as Pol
1966		Hotel Paradiso as Benedict Boniface

1965		Pasternak as Himself
1965		Doctor Zhivago as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965		Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious as Wilhelm Frick

1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire as Marcus Aurelius

1962		Lawrence of Arabia as Prince Feisal
1962		H.M.S. Defiant as Captain Crawford

1961

A Majority of One as Koichi Asano

1960		Tunes of Glory as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960		Our Man in Havana as Jim Wormold

1959		Startime
1959		The Scapegoat as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

1958		The Horse's Mouth as Gulley Jimson
1958		The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self

1957		Barnacle Bill as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957		The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson

1956		The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956		The Swan as Prince Albert

1955		The Ladykillers as Professor Marcus
1955		The Prisoner as The Cardinal
1955		To Paris with Love as Sir Edgar Fraser
1955		Rowlandson's England as Narrator

1954		The Stratford Adventure as Self
1954		Father Brown as Father Brown

1953		The Captain's Paradise as Captain Henry St. James
1953		Malta Story as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1953		The Oscars as Self

1952

The Card as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Julius Caesar
1951		The Man in the White Suit as Sidney Stratton
1951		The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

1950		The Mudlark as Benjamin Disraeli
1950		Last Holiday as George Bird

1949		A Run for Your Money as Whimple
1949		Kind Hearts and Coronets as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

1948		Oliver Twist as Fagin
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1946

Great Expectations as Herbert Pocket

1934

Evensong as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

Crew

1987

Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Thanks

Writing

1958

The Horse's Mouth as Writer