Alec Guinness
Acting
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 Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
As actor 101
Great Performances
1971
Film '72
1971
Apostrophes
1975
American Playhouse
1982
Star Wars
1977
Omnibus
1967
The South Bank Show
1978
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Performance
1991
The Oscars
1953
Return of the Jedi
1983
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
MGM Parade
1955
Smiley's People
1982
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Screen One
1989
Startime
1959
Talking Pictures
2013
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Murder by Death
1976
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Great Expectations
1946
Oliver Twist
1948
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Twelfth Night
1970
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Mute Witness
1995
The Ladykillers
1955
Raise the Titanic
1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
A Passage to India
1984
The Swan
1956
Cromwell
1970
Monsignor Quixote
1985
Scrooge
1970
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
The Man in the White Suit
1951
The Comedians
1967
The Scapegoat
1959
A Handful of Dust
1988
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Little Dorrit
1987
Kafka
1991
Last Holiday
1950
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
Our Man in Havana
1960
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Barnacle Bill
1957
Edwin
1984
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
Eskimo Day
1996
Lovesick
1983
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Pasternak
1965
The Making of Star Wars
1977
The Card
1952
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
The Story of Star Wars
2004
Tunes of Glory
1960
Tales from Hollywood
1992
Father Brown
1954
The Prisoner
1955
The Captain's Paradise
1953
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
A Majority of One
1961
The Horse's Mouth
1958
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Mudlark
1950
Evensong
1934
Malta Story
1953
A Run for Your Money
1949
The Gift of Friendship
1974
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
A Foreign Field
1993
Hotel Paradiso
1966
The Stratford Adventure
1954
To Paris with Love
1955
...On Seeing Film
1958
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
Rowlandson's England
1955
The Comedians in Africa
1967
The Ealing Comedies
1970
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2021
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958