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