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.
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Acting History
2021
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland) as Self (archive footage)
2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel as Self
2013Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2012Starring Sigmund Freud as (archive footage)
2007Hitler: The Comedy Years as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2004When Star Wars Ruled the World as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2000The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' as Self (archive footage)
1996Eskimo Day as James
1995Mute Witness as The Reaper
1993A Foreign Field as Amos
1993Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1992Tales from Hollywood as Heinrich Mann
1991Kafka as The Chief Clerk
1991Performance as Heinrich Mann
1989Screen One as Amos
1988A Handful of Dust as Mr. Todd
1987Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
1987Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
1985David Lean: A Life in Film as Self
1985Monsignor Quixote as Father Quixote
1984A Passage to India as Professor Godbole
1984Edwin as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1983Return of the Jedi as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983Lovesick as Sigmund Freud
1982Smiley's People as George Smiley
1980Little Lord Fauntleroy as Earl of Dorincourt
1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Obi Wan Kenobi
1980Raise the Titanic as John Bigalow
1980The Empire Strikes Back as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1979Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
1978The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978The Star Wars Holiday Special as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978The South Bank Show as Self
1977The Making of Star Wars as Self
1977Star Wars as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1976Murder by Death as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976Caesar and Cleopatra as Caesar
1975Apostrophes as Self
1974The Gift of Friendship as Jocelyn Broome
1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Adolf Hitler
1972Brother Sun, Sister Moon as Papst Innozenz III.
1971Great Performances as Father Quixote
1970Scrooge as Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970The Ealing Comedies as Self
1970Cromwell as King Charles I
1970Twelfth Night as Malvolio
1967The Comedians as Major H. O. Jones
1967Omnibus as Self
1967The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)
1967Lionpower from MGM
1966The Quiller Memorandum as Pol
1966Hotel Paradiso as Benedict Boniface
1965Pasternak as Self (archive footage)
1965Doctor Zhivago as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious as Wilhelm Frick
1964The Fall of the Roman Empire as Marcus Aurelius
1962Lawrence of Arabia as Prince Feisal
1962H.M.S. Defiant as Captain Crawford
1961A Majority of One as Koichi Asano
1960Tunes of Glory as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960Our Man in Havana as Jim Wormold
1959Startime
1959The Scapegoat as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1958The Horse's Mouth as Gulley Jimson
1958The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self
1957Barnacle Bill as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson
1956The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956The Swan as Prince Albert
1955The Ladykillers as Professor Marcus
1955The Prisoner as The Cardinal
1955To Paris with Love as Sir Edgar Fraser
1955Rowlandson's England as Narrator
1954The Stratford Adventure as Self
1954Father Brown as Father Brown
1953The Captain's Paradise as Captain Henry St. James
1953Malta Story as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1953The Oscars as Self
1952The Card as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Julius Caesar
1951The Man in the White Suit as Sidney Stratton
1951The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1950The Mudlark as Benjamin Disraeli
1950Last Holiday as George Bird
1949A Run for Your Money as Whimple
1949Kind Hearts and Coronets as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1948Oliver Twist as Fagin
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1946Great Expectations as Herbert Pocket
1934Evensong as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)