Alec Guinness
Known for: Actor
Born: 2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died: 5 August 2000
Credits: 60+ titles
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.
Filmography
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Starring Sigmund Freud
Hitler: The Comedy Years
When Star Wars Ruled the World
The Story of Star Wars
Eskimo Day
Mute Witness
A Foreign Field
Tales from Hollywood
Kafka
Performance
Screen One
A Handful of Dust
Little Dorrit
Monsignor Quixote
A Passage to India
Edwin
Return of the Jedi
Lovesick
Smiley's People
American Playhouse
Little Lord Fauntleroy
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Raise the Titanic
The Empire Strikes Back
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Star Wars
Murder by Death
Caesar and Cleopatra
The Gift of Friendship
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Great Performances
Scrooge
Cromwell
Twelfth Night
The Comedians
ITV Playhouse
The Quiller Memorandum
Hotel Paradiso
Doctor Zhivago
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Lawrence of Arabia
H.M.S. Defiant
A Majority of One
Tunes of Glory
Our Man in Havana
Startime
The Scapegoat
The Horse's Mouth
Barnacle Bill
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Swan
The Ladykillers
The Prisoner