Alec Guinness

Apr 02, 1914 - Aug 05, 2000 (86 years old) in Marylebone, London, England, UK

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.

Known For

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Great Performances

Father Quixote

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The South Bank Show

Self

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Omnibus

Self

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Honest Trailers

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

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The Steve Allen Show

Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

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Performance

Heinrich Mann

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The Oscars

Self

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Talking Pictures

Self (archive footage)

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Star Wars

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

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Screen One

Amos

Credits

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return 2022

Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6.8
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

★ 6.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

★ 7.3
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel 2015

Self

★ 6.3
Talking Pictures 2013

Self (archive footage)

★ 5
Starring Sigmund Freud 2012

(archive footage)

★ NR
Honest Trailers 2012

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

★ 6.5
Hitler: The Comedy Years 2007

Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess 2006

Self - Actor (archive footage)

★ 7.2
When Star Wars Ruled the World 2004

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

★ 8.8
The Story of Star Wars 2004

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

★ 7.1
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' 2000

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.3
Eskimo Day 1996

James

★ 7.5
Mute Witness 1995

The Reaper

★ 6.4
A Foreign Field 1993

Amos

★ NR
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered 1993

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Tales from Hollywood 1992

Heinrich Mann

★ 1
Kafka 1991

The Chief Clerk

★ 6.4
Performance 1991

Heinrich Mann

★ 6
Screen One 1989

Amos

★ 7
A Handful of Dust 1988

Mr. Todd

★ 6.2
Little Dorrit 1987

William Dorrit

★ 6.5
Grace Kelly: The American Princess 1987

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5
Monsignor Quixote 1985

Father Quixote

★ 8.5
David Lean: A Life in Film 1985

Self

★ 6
A Passage to India 1984

Professor Godbole

★ 6.8
Edwin 1984

Sir Fennimore Truscott

★ 8
Return of the Jedi 1983

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

★ 7.9
Lovesick 1983

Sigmund Freud

★ 5.5
Smiley's People 1982

George Smiley

★ 7.7
Little Lord Fauntleroy 1980

Earl of Dorincourt

★ 7.3
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back 1980

Obi Wan Kenobi

★ 8.6
Raise the Titanic 1980

John Bigalow

★ 5.3
The Empire Strikes Back 1980

Obi-Wan Kenobi

★ 8.4
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979

George Smiley

★ 7.6
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness 1978

★ NR
The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978

Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 3.4
The South Bank Show 1978

Self

★ 5.6
The Making of Star Wars 1977

Self

★ 7
Star Wars 1977

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

★ 8.2
Murder by Death 1976

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

★ 7.2
Caesar and Cleopatra 1976

Caesar

★ 6
The Gift of Friendship 1974

Jocelyn Broome

★ NR
Hitler: The Last Ten Days 1973

Adolf Hitler

★ 6.1
Brother Sun, Sister Moon 1972

Papst Innozenz III.

★ 7
Great Performances 1971

Father Quixote

★ 5.3
Scrooge 1970

Jacob Marley's Ghost

★ 6.9
The Ealing Comedies 1970

Self

★ NR
Cromwell 1970

King Charles I

★ 6.5
Twelfth Night 1970

Malvolio

★ 6.4
The Comedians 1967

Major H. O. Jones

★ 6.1
Omnibus 1967

Self

★ 7.2
The Comedians in Africa 1967

Self (uncredited)

★ 5.3
The Quiller Memorandum 1966

Pol

★ 5.7
Hotel Paradiso 1966

Benedict Boniface

★ 5.4
Pasternak 1965

Himself

★ 5
Doctor Zhivago 1965

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

★ 7.5
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious 1965

Wilhelm Frick

★ 7
The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964

Marcus Aurelius

★ 6.5
Lawrence of Arabia 1962

Prince Feisal

★ 8
H.M.S. Defiant 1962

Captain Crawford

★ 6.6
A Majority of One 1961

Koichi Asano

★ 5.7
Tunes of Glory 1960

Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

★ 7.1
Our Man in Havana 1960

Jim Wormold

★ 6.7
Startime 1959

★ 6
The Scapegoat 1959

John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

★ 6.8
The Horse's Mouth 1958

Gulley Jimson

★ 6.8
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant 1958

Self

★ NR
Barnacle Bill 1957

Captain William Horatio Ambrose

★ 6.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

Col. Nicholson

★ 7.8
The Steve Allen Show 1956

Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

★ 5.6
The Swan 1956

Prince Albert

★ 6.9
The Ladykillers 1955

Professor Marcus

★ 7.3
The Prisoner 1955

The Cardinal

★ 7.2
To Paris with Love 1955

Sir Edgar Fraser

★ 5.2
Rowlandson's England 1955

Narrator

★ NR
The Stratford Adventure 1954

Self

★ 6
Father Brown 1954

Father Brown

★ 6.4
The Captain's Paradise 1953

Captain Henry St. James

★ 5.5
Malta Story 1953

Flight Lt. Peter Ross

★ 5.9
The Oscars 1953

Self

★ 7
The Card 1952

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

★ 6.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951

Julius Caesar

★ 8.6
The Man in the White Suit 1951

Sidney Stratton

★ 6.9
The Lavender Hill Mob 1951

Henry 'Dutch' Holland

★ 7.2
The Mudlark 1950

Benjamin Disraeli

★ 6.5
Last Holiday 1950

George Bird

★ 7.1
A Run for Your Money 1949

Whimple

★ 6
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949

The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

★ 7.6
Oliver Twist 1948

Fagin

★ 7.5
Great Expectations 1946

Herbert Pocket

★ 7.3
Evensong 1934

W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

★ NR

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