Alec Guinness
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.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Birthday
4/2/1914
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8
Doctor Zhivago
7.5
Lawrence of Arabia
8
Return of the Jedi
7.9
The Empire Strikes Back
8.4
Kafka
6.3
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7
Oliver Twist
7.5
The Ladykillers
7.3
Murder by Death
7.2
Cromwell
6.6
Raise the Titanic
5.3
Our Man in Havana
6.8
The Man in the White Suit
6.8
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.2
Scrooge
6.9
Great Expectations
7.3
H.M.S. Defiant
6.5
Tunes of Glory
7.2
The Horse's Mouth
6.8
The Captain's Paradise
5.4
The Swan
7.1
The Card
6.9
Barnacle Bill
6.3
A Passage to India
6.8
A Run for Your Money
5.9
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.3
A Handful of Dust
6.1
The Quiller Memorandum
5.7
Last Holiday
7.3
The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.5
Little Dorrit
6.4
Mute Witness
6.3
Lovesick
5.5
The Prisoner
7.2
The Comedians
6.1
To Paris with Love
5
Father Brown
6.1
The Mudlark
6.9
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
6
The Scapegoat
6.8
Hotel Paradiso
5.3
Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
7
A Majority of One
5.7
Monsignor Quixote
8.5
The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
7
Tales from Hollywood
1
Twelfth Night
6.4
Caesar and Cleopatra
6
The Gift of Friendship
0
Evensong
0
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.7
When Star Wars Ruled the World
8.7
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.4
Star Wars
8.2
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
6.2
Malta Story
5.8
SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back
8.6
The Stratford Adventure
6
Eskimo Day
8
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.3
The Story of Star Wars
7
A Foreign Field
0
The Comedians in Africa
5.3
David Lean: A Life in Film
6
Edwin
8
The Making of Star Wars
7
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.3
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
6.5
The Ealing Comedies
0
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
0
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
0
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
6.8
Pasternak
5
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
7
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
6.5