Alec Guinness
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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.
Known for
Credits
Star Wars (1977)
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Return of the Jedi (1983)
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
as Prince Feisal
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
as Col. Nicholson
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
as Marcus Aurelius
Murder by Death (1976)
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Oliver Twist (1948)
as Fagin
A Passage to India (1984)
as Professor Godbole
Great Expectations (1946)
as Herbert Pocket
Raise the Titanic (1980)
as John Bigalow
The Ladykillers (1955)
as Professor Marcus
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mute Witness (1995)
as The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
as Papst Innozenz III.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
as Adolf Hitler
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
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Handful of Dust (1988)
as Mr. Todd
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
as Sidney Stratton
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
as Earl of Dorincourt
Our Man in Havana (1960)
as Jim Wormold
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
as Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
as Captain Crawford
The Scapegoat (1959)
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies (2022)
as Self - (archive footage)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
as Pol
Scrooge (1970)
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
Cromwell (1970)
as King Charles I
The Making of Star Wars (1977)
as Self
The Story of Star Wars (2004)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Kafka (1991)
as The Chief Clerk
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel (2015)
as Self
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
as Gulley Jimson
Little Dorrit (1987)
as William Dorrit
The Comedians in Africa (1967)
as Self (uncredited)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
as Wilhelm Frick
Monsignor Quixote (1985)
as Father Quixote
The Swan (1956)
as Prince Albert
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
The Comedians (1967)
as Major H. O. Jones
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
as Captain Henry St. James
Twelfth Night (1970)
as Malvolio
The Prisoner (1955)
as The Cardinal
Last Holiday (1950)
as George Bird
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess (2006)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
A Majority of One (1961)
as Koichi Asano
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Card (1952)
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
A Run for Your Money (1949)
as Whimple
Lovesick (1983)
as Sigmund Freud
David Lean: A Life in Film (1985)
as Self
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
as Benedict Boniface
To Paris with Love (1955)
as Sir Edgar Fraser
Pasternak (1965)
as Self (archive footage)
Eskimo Day (1996)
as James
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Father Brown (1954)
as Father Brown
The Gift of Friendship (1974)
as Jocelyn Broome
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958)
as Self
Malta Story (1953)
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
as (archive footage)
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland) (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Edwin (1984)
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
Tales from Hollywood (1992)
as Heinrich Mann
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness (1978)
Actor
A Foreign Field (1993)
as Amos
The Mudlark (1950)
as Benjamin Disraeli
Evensong (1934)
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
The Stratford Adventure (1954)
as Self
Rowlandson's England (1955)
as Narrator
The Ealing Comedies (1970)
as Self
Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)
as Caesar
...On Seeing Film (1958)
as Self