Alec Guinness
Born April 2, 1914 · Marylebone, London, England, UK
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.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
The Ladykillers
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Raise the Titanic
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Lavender Hill Mob
Mute Witness
A Handful of Dust
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
The Man in the White Suit
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Our Man in Havana
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Little Lord Fauntleroy
H.M.S. Defiant
Scrooge
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
The Making of Star Wars
Cromwell
The Story of Star Wars
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Kafka
The Scapegoat
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
The Quiller Memorandum
The Captain's Paradise
Monsignor Quixote
The Horse's Mouth
Twelfth Night
The Swan
Lovesick
Last Holiday
Tunes of Glory
Little Dorrit
Eskimo Day
The Comedians in Africa
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
The Comedians
Barnacle Bill
Hotel Paradiso
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
The Card
A Majority of One
Lionpower from MGM
To Paris with Love
The Prisoner
David Lean: A Life in Film
A Run for Your Money
Father Brown
Malta Story
Edwin
Pasternak
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
The Gift of Friendship
A Foreign Field
Tales from Hollywood
Evensong
The Mudlark
The Stratford Adventure
The Ealing Comedies
Caesar and Cleopatra
