Alec Guinness
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-04-02
Place of Birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
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.
Also Known For
Star Wars
May 25, 1977
Doctor Zhivago
Dec 22, 1965
Lawrence of Arabia
Dec 11, 1962
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Oct 11, 1957
Kafka
Nov 15, 1991
The Empire Strikes Back
May 20, 1980
Return of the Jedi
May 25, 1983
Pasternak
Dec 31, 1965
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Mar 03, 1972
Oliver Twist
Jun 28, 1948
The Ladykillers
Dec 08, 1955
Murder by Death
Jun 23, 1976
Cromwell
Jul 16, 1970
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Jun 21, 1949
Raise the Titanic
Aug 01, 1980
Our Man in Havana
Jan 27, 1960
The Man in the White Suit
Aug 07, 1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
Jun 28, 1951
Scrooge
Nov 05, 1970
Great Expectations
Dec 26, 1946
H.M.S. Defiant
Apr 15, 1962
Tunes of Glory
Sep 17, 1960
The Captain's Paradise
Sep 28, 1953
The Card
Feb 25, 1952
The Horse's Mouth
Nov 11, 1958
The Swan
Apr 26, 1956
A Passage to India
Dec 14, 1984
Barnacle Bill
Dec 17, 1957
A Run for Your Money
Nov 23, 1949
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dec 01, 1980
A Handful of Dust
Jun 24, 1988
The Quiller Memorandum
Nov 10, 1966
Last Holiday
May 15, 1950
Little Dorrit
Dec 11, 1987
Malta Story
Jun 01, 1953
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Apr 19, 1973
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Mar 24, 1964
Hitler: The Comedy Years
May 10, 2007
Mute Witness
Sep 15, 1995
Lovesick
Feb 18, 1983
The Ealing Comedies
Sep 08, 1970
The Prisoner
Apr 19, 1955
The Comedians
Oct 31, 1967
To Paris with Love
Jan 01, 1955
Father Brown
Jun 08, 1954
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Nov 21, 2000
The Mudlark
Oct 03, 1950
The Scapegoat
Aug 06, 1959
Hotel Paradiso
Mar 01, 1966
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Oct 13, 1965
A Majority of One
Dec 27, 1961
Monsignor Quixote
Jan 01, 1985
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
Dec 31, 1978
Eskimo Day
Apr 04, 1996
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Jan 01, 1958
Twelfth Night
Jul 12, 1970
Caesar and Cleopatra
Feb 01, 1976
The Gift of Friendship
Sep 24, 1974
Tales from Hollywood
Oct 18, 1992
Evensong
Sep 03, 1934
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Sep 07, 2022
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Aug 11, 1993
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Jun 08, 1987
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Sep 18, 2004
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Nov 17, 1978
Rowlandson's England
Jan 01, 1955
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Dec 15, 2015
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Dec 15, 2015
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Sep 22, 1980
The Stratford Adventure
Aug 02, 1954
Starring Sigmund Freud
Nov 01, 2012
The Story of Star Wars
Aug 18, 2004
A Foreign Field
Sep 10, 1993
The Comedians in Africa
Aug 31, 1967
David Lean: A Life in Film
Jan 01, 1985
Edwin
Jan 01, 1984
The Making of Star Wars
Sep 16, 1977
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Dec 18, 2019
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Sep 16, 2006
Lionpower from MGM
Jan 01, 1967
The South Bank Show
Jan 14, 1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Steve Allen Show
Jun 24, 1956
Smiley's People
Sep 20, 1982
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Startime
Oct 06, 1959
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sep 10, 1979
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
Screen One
Sep 10, 1989
Talking Pictures
Jan 05, 2013
The Ed Sullivan Show
Jun 20, 1948
Omnibus
Oct 13, 1967
Apostrophes
Jan 10, 1975
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
