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