Alec Guinness
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-04-02
Day of Death
2000-08-05 (86 years old)
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.
Known For
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)
(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
(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)
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
(1985)
Monsignor Quixote
as Father Quixote
(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
(1980)
The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
(1980)
Raise the Titanic
as John Bigalow
(1980)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
(1980)
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi Wan Kenobi
(1978)
The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1978)
(1977)
Star Wars
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
(1977)
The Making of Star Wars
as Self
(1976)
Murder by Death
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
(1976)
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
(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.
(1970)
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
(1970)
Cromwell
as King Charles I
(1970)
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
(1970)
The Ealing Comedies
as Self
(1967)
The Comedians
as Major H. O. Jones
(1967)
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
(1966)
The Quiller Memorandum
as Pol
(1966)
Hotel Paradiso
as Benedict Boniface
(1965)
Doctor Zhivago
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
(1965)
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
as Wilhelm Frick
(1965)
Pasternak
as Himself
(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)
Our Man in Havana
as Jim Wormold
(1960)
Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
(1959)
The Scapegoat
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
(1958)
The Horse's Mouth
as Gulley Jimson
(1958)
(1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Nicholson
(1957)
Barnacle Bill
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
(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)
Father Brown
as Father Brown
(1954)
The Stratford Adventure
as Self
(1953)
Malta Story
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
(1953)
The Captain's Paradise
as Captain Henry St. James
(1952)
The Card
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
(1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
(1951)
The Man in the White Suit
as Sidney Stratton
(1950)
Last Holiday
as George Bird
(1950)
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
(1949)
A Run for Your Money
as Whimple
(1948)
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
(1946)
Great Expectations
as Herbert Pocket
(1934)
Evensong
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Crew
(1987)
(1958)
The Horse's Mouth
Writer