Birthday:
Apr 02, 1914
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK
Alec Guinness
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Star Wars | Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi | 1977 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago | 1965 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Prince Feisal | 1962 |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Col. Nicholson | 1957 |
| Kafka | The Chief Clerk | 1991 |
| Return of the Jedi | Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi | 1983 |
| Pasternak | Himself | 1965 |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Obi-Wan Kenobi | 1980 |
| Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Papst Innozenz III. | 1972 |
| Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1948 |
| The Ladykillers | Professor Marcus | 1955 |
| Murder by Death | Butler Jamesir Bensonmum | 1976 |
| Cromwell | King Charles I | 1970 |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha | 1949 |
| Raise the Titanic | John Bigalow | 1980 |
| Our Man in Havana | Jim Wormold | 1960 |
| The Man in the White Suit | Sidney Stratton | 1951 |
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Henry 'Dutch' Holland | 1951 |
| Scrooge | Jacob Marley's Ghost | 1970 |
| Great Expectations | Herbert Pocket | 1946 |
| H.M.S. Defiant | Captain Crawford | 1962 |
| Tunes of Glory | Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. | 1960 |
| The Captain's Paradise | Captain Henry St. James | 1953 |
| The Card | Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin | 1952 |
| The Swan | Prince Albert | 1956 |
| The Horse's Mouth | Gulley Jimson | 1958 |
| A Passage to India | Professor Godbole | 1984 |
| Barnacle Bill | Captain William Horatio Ambrose | 1957 |
| A Run for Your Money | Whimple | 1949 |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Earl of Dorincourt | 1980 |
| A Handful of Dust | Mr. Todd | 1988 |
| The Quiller Memorandum | Pol | 1966 |
| Last Holiday | George Bird | 1950 |
| Little Dorrit | William Dorrit | 1987 |
| Malta Story | Flight Lt. Peter Ross | 1953 |
| Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Adolf Hitler | 1973 |
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | Marcus Aurelius | 1964 |
| Hitler: The Comedy Years | Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007 |
| Mute Witness | The Reaper | 1995 |
| Lovesick | Sigmund Freud | 1983 |
| The Ealing Comedies | Self | 1970 |
| The Prisoner | The Cardinal | 1955 |
| The Comedians | Major H. O. Jones | 1967 |
| To Paris with Love | Sir Edgar Fraser | 1955 |
| Father Brown | Father Brown | 1954 |
| The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' | Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| The Mudlark | Benjamin Disraeli | 1950 |
| The Scapegoat | John Barratt / Jacques De Gue | 1959 |
| Hotel Paradiso | Benedict Boniface | 1966 |
| Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious | Wilhelm Frick | 1965 |
| A Majority of One | Koichi Asano | 1961 |
| Monsignor Quixote | Father Quixote | 1985 |
| The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia' | Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness | 1978 | |
| Eskimo Day | James | 1996 |
| The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant | Self | 1958 |
| Twelfth Night | Malvolio | 1970 |
| Tales from Hollywood | Heinrich Mann | 1992 |
| The Gift of Friendship | Jocelyn Broome | 1974 |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar | 1976 |
| Evensong | W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited) | 1934 |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2022 |
| Audrey Hepburn: Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1993 |
| Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987 |
| When Star Wars Ruled the World | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) | 2004 |
| The Star Wars Holiday Special | Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1978 |
| Rowlandson's England | Narrator | 1955 |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited) | 2015 |
| Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel | Self | 2015 |
| SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back | Obi Wan Kenobi | 1980 |
| The Stratford Adventure | Self | 1954 |
| Starring Sigmund Freud | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| The Story of Star Wars | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) | 2004 |
| A Foreign Field | Amos | 1993 |
| The Comedians in Africa | Self (uncredited) | 1967 |
| David Lean: A Life in Film | Self | 1985 |
| Edwin | Sir Fennimore Truscott | 1984 |
| The Making of Star Wars | Self | 1977 |
| Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice) | 2019 |
| Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2006 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The South Bank Show | Self | 1978 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Julius Caesar | 1951 |
| The Steve Allen Show | Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" | 1956 |
| Smiley's People | George Smiley | 1982 |
| The Oscars | Self | 1953 |
| Startime | 1959 | |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley | 1979 |
| Performance | Heinrich Mann | 1991 |
| Screen One | Amos | 1989 |
| Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) | 2013 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| Omnibus | Self | 1967 |
| Apostrophes | Self | 1975 |
| Great Performances | Father Quixote | 1971 |
