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