Alec Guinness
Born: 1914-04-02 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died: 2000-08-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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
2022
- Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies as Self - (archive footage)
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
- The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
- When Star Wars Ruled the World 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
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- A Foreign Field as Amos
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
- Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
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
- Return of the Jedi as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
- Lovesick as Sigmund Freud
1982
- Smiley's People as George Smiley
1980
- The Empire Strikes Back as Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Earl of Dorincourt
- Raise the Titanic as John Bigalow
- SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
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
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- Scrooge as Jacob Marley's Ghost
- Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- Cromwell as King Charles I
- The Ealing Comedies as Self
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Jocelyn Broome
- Omnibus as Self
- The Comedians as Major H. O. Jones
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)
1966
- The Quiller Memorandum as Pol
- Hotel Paradiso as Benedict Boniface
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as The Executioner
- Doctor Zhivago as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
- Pasternak as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 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.
- Our Man in Havana as Jim Wormold
1959
- Startime as Jebal Deeks
- The Scapegoat as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1958
- The Horse's Mouth as Gulley Jimson
- ...On Seeing Film as Self
- The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self
1957
- The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson
- Barnacle Bill as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
- The Swan as Prince Albert
1955
- MGM Parade as self
- The Ladykillers as Professor Marcus
- The Prisoner as The Cardinal
- 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
- Malta Story as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
- The Captain's Paradise as Captain Henry St. James
1952
- The Card as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Julius Caesar
- The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
- The Man in the White Suit as Sidney Stratton
1950
- Last Holiday as George Bird
- The Mudlark as Benjamin Disraeli
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
- A Run for Your Money as Whimple
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)