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