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Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

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.

On screen

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

Behind the camera

  • The Horse's Mouth

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