Alec Guinness

ActorCrewWriter Apr 2 (died age 86) Marylebone, London, England, UK 1934–2021 (87 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

The Empire Strikes Back

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Film

Star Wars

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

Film

Return of the Jedi

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

Film

Lawrence of Arabia

Prince Feisal

Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Col. Nicholson

Film

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

Film

Doctor Zhivago

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (80)

A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

6.3

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

7.3

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

2015

as Self

6.3

Starring Sigmund Freud

2012

as (archive footage)

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007

as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

2006

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.2

The Story of Star Wars

2004

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

7.2

When Star Wars Ruled the World

2004

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

8.8

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Eskimo Day

as James

Mute Witness

as The Reaper

A Foreign Field

as Amos

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

1993

as Self (archive footage)

Tales from Hollywood

as Heinrich Mann

Kafka

as The Chief Clerk

A Handful of Dust

as Mr. Todd

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Little Dorrit

1987

as William Dorrit

6.5

David Lean: A Life in Film

as Self

Monsignor Quixote

as Father Quixote

A Passage to India

as Professor Godbole

Edwin

as Sir Fennimore Truscott

8.0

Return of the Jedi

1983

as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

7.9

Lovesick

1983

as Sigmund Freud

5.5

The Empire Strikes Back

as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Raise the Titanic

as John Bigalow

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

as Earl of Dorincourt

7.4

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

1980

as Obi Wan Kenobi

8.6

The Star Wars Holiday Special

1978

as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

3.4

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

1978

Star Wars

1977

as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

8.2

The Making of Star Wars

1977

as Self

7.0

Murder by Death

1976

as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

7.2

Caesar and Cleopatra

1976

as Caesar

6.0

The Gift of Friendship

1974

as Jocelyn Broome

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Adolf Hitler

6.1

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972

as Papst Innozenz III.

7.0

The Ealing Comedies

1970

as Self

Scrooge

1970

as Jacob Marley's Ghost

Cromwell

as King Charles I

Twelfth Night

as Malvolio

The Comedians in Africa

as Self (uncredited)

The Comedians

as Major H. O. Jones

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.5

The Quiller Memorandum

as Pol

Hotel Paradiso

as Benedict Boniface

Doctor Zhivago

as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

7.5

Pasternak

1965

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

1965

as Wilhelm Frick

6.9

The Fall of the Roman Empire

as Marcus Aurelius

Lawrence of Arabia

as Prince Feisal

H.M.S. Defiant

as Captain Crawford

A Majority of One

as Koichi Asano

Our Man in Havana

as Jim Wormold

Tunes of Glory

as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

7.1

The Scapegoat

1959

as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

6.8

The Horse's Mouth

1958

as Gulley Jimson

6.7

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

1958

as Self

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

as Col. Nicholson

7.8

Barnacle Bill

1957

as Captain William Horatio Ambrose

The Swan

as Prince Albert

The Ladykillers

as Professor Marcus

The Prisoner

as The Cardinal

To Paris with Love

as Sir Edgar Fraser

Rowlandson's England

as Narrator

The Stratford Adventure

as Self

Father Brown

as Father Brown

Malta Story

as Flight Lt. Peter Ross

5.9

The Captain's Paradise

1953

as Captain Henry St. James

5.4

The Card

1952

as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

6.9

The Man in the White Suit

1951

as Sidney Stratton

6.9

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951

as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

The Mudlark

as Benjamin Disraeli

Last Holiday

as George Bird

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

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

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

Great Expectations

as Herbert Pocket

Evensong

as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

5.0

Television (15)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.2

Talking Pictures

2013

as Self (archive footage)

Performance

as Heinrich Mann

Screen One

as Amos

Smiley's People

as George Smiley

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as George Smiley

The South Bank Show

as Self

Apostrophes

as Self

Great Performances

as Father Quixote

Omnibus

as Self

Startime

The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

5.6

The Oscars

1953

as Self

7.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Julius Caesar

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Thanks

The Horse's Mouth

Writer