Alec Guinness
Born: 1914-04-02 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died: 2000-08-05
Known For: Acting
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
2021
- A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland) as Self (archive footage)
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)
- 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)
- The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (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
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Tales from Hollywood as Heinrich Mann
1991
- Performance as Heinrich Mann
- Kafka as The Chief Clerk
1989
- Screen One as Amos
1988
- A Handful of Dust as Mr. Todd
1987
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
- Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
1985
- Monsignor Quixote as Father Quixote
- David Lean: A Life in Film as Self
1984
- A Passage to India as Professor Godbole
- Edwin as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1983
- Lovesick as Sigmund Freud
- Return of the Jedi as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1982
- Smiley's People as George Smiley
1980
- The Empire Strikes Back as Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Raise the Titanic as John Bigalow
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Earl of Dorincourt
- SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Obi Wan Kenobi
1979
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
1978
- The South Bank Show as Self
- The Star Wars Holiday Special as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1977
- Star Wars as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
- The Making of Star Wars as Self
1976
- Murder by Death as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
- 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
- Cromwell as King Charles I
- Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- The Ealing Comedies as Self
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- The Comedians as Major H. O. Jones
- The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)
- Lionpower from MGM
1966
- The Quiller Memorandum as Pol
- Hotel Paradiso as Benedict Boniface
1965
- Doctor Zhivago as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
- Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious as Wilhelm Frick
- Pasternak as Himself
1964
- The Fall of the Roman Empire as Marcus Aurelius
1962
- Lawrence of Arabia as Prince Feisal
- H.M.S. Defiant as Captain Crawford
1961
- A Majority of One as Koichi Asano
1960
- Our Man in Havana as Jim Wormold
- Tunes of Glory as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1959
- The Scapegoat as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
- Startime
1958
- The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self
- The Horse's Mouth as Gulley Jimson
1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson
- Barnacle Bill as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1956
- The Swan as Prince Albert
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1955
- The Prisoner as The Cardinal
- The Ladykillers as Professor Marcus
- To Paris with Love as Sir Edgar Fraser
- Rowlandson's England as Narrator
1954
- Father Brown as Father Brown
- The Stratford Adventure as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Captain's Paradise as Captain Henry St. James
- Malta Story as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1952
- The Card as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951
- The Man in the White Suit as Sidney Stratton
- The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Julius Caesar
1950
- Last Holiday as George Bird
- The Mudlark as Benjamin Disraeli
1949
- A Run for Your Money as Whimple
- 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
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Oliver Twist as Fagin
1946
- Great Expectations as Herbert Pocket
1934
- Evensong as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)