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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 2, 1914
Died
August 5, 2000
Place of Birth
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Alec Guinness de Cuffe
- Sir Alec Guinness
- Сэр Алек Гиннесс
- الک گینس
Alec Guinness
1.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.8
Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
6.3
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
7.3
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
6.3
Self
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
5.0
Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
2013
🎬
0.0
(archive footage)
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
6.4
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Honest Trailers
2012
5.0
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
7.2
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
8.8
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
Credits
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
6.8
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2019
6.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015
7.3
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
as Self
2015
6.3
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.0
🎬
Starring Sigmund Freud
as (archive footage)
2012
0.0
Honest Trailers
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2012
6.4
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
5.0
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2006
7.2
When Star Wars Ruled the World
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
8.8
The Story of Star Wars
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
7.1
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
as Self (archive footage)
2000
6.3
Eskimo Day
as James
1996
7.5
Mute Witness
as The Reaper
1995
6.4
A Foreign Field
as Amos
1993
0.0
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1993
7.0
Tales from Hollywood
as Heinrich Mann
1992
1.0
Kafka
as The Chief Clerk
1991
6.4
Performance
as Heinrich Mann
1991
6.0
Screen One
as Amos
1989
7.0
A Handful of Dust
as Mr. Todd
1988
6.2
Little Dorrit
as William Dorrit
1987
6.5
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.5
Monsignor Quixote
as Father Quixote
1985
8.5
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
1985
6.0
A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
1984
6.8
Edwin
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1984
8.0
Return of the Jedi
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983
7.9
Lovesick
as Sigmund Freud
1983
5.5
Smiley's People
as George Smiley
1982
7.7
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
1980
7.3
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi Wan Kenobi
1980
8.6
Raise the Titanic
as John Bigalow
1980
5.3
The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1980
8.4
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley
1979
7.6
🎬
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
0.0
The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
3.4
The South Bank Show
as Self
1978
5.6
The Making of Star Wars
as Self
1977
7.0
Star Wars
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1977
8.2
Murder by Death
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976
7.2
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
1976
6.0
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
8.5
The Gift of Friendship
as Jocelyn Broome
1974
0.0
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Adolf Hitler
1973
6.1
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Papst Innozenz III.
1972
7.0
Great Performances
as Father Quixote
1971
5.3
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970
6.9
The Ealing Comedies
as Self
1970
0.0
Cromwell
as King Charles I
1970
6.5
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
1970
6.4
The Comedians
as Major H. O. Jones
1967
6.1
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
1967
5.3
The Quiller Memorandum
as Pol
1966
5.7
Hotel Paradiso
as Benedict Boniface
1966
5.4
Pasternak
as Himself
1965
5.0
Doctor Zhivago
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965
7.5
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
as Wilhelm Frick
1965
7.0
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Marcus Aurelius
1964
6.5
Lawrence of Arabia
as Prince Feisal
1962
8.0
H.M.S. Defiant
as Captain Crawford
1962
6.6
A Majority of One
as Koichi Asano
1961
5.7
Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960
7.1
Our Man in Havana
as Jim Wormold
1960
6.7
Startime
1959
6.0
The Scapegoat
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1959
6.8
The Horse's Mouth
as Gulley Jimson
1958
6.8
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
1958
0.0
Barnacle Bill
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957
6.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Nicholson
1957
7.8
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956
5.6
The Swan
as Prince Albert
1956
6.9
The Ladykillers
as Professor Marcus
1955
7.3
The Prisoner
as The Cardinal
1955
7.2
To Paris with Love
as Sir Edgar Fraser
1955
5.2
🎬
Rowlandson's England
as Narrator
1955
0.0
The Stratford Adventure
as Self
1954
6.0
Father Brown
as Father Brown
1954
6.4
The Captain's Paradise
as Captain Henry St. James
1953
5.5
Malta Story
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1953
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Card
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1952
6.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Julius Caesar
1951
8.6
The Man in the White Suit
as Sidney Stratton
1951
6.9
The Lavender Hill Mob
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1951
7.2
The Mudlark
as Benjamin Disraeli
1950
6.5
Last Holiday
as George Bird
1950
7.1
A Run for Your Money
as Whimple
1949
6.0
Kind Hearts and Coronets
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1949
7.7
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
1948
7.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Great Expectations
as Herbert Pocket
1946
7.3
Evensong
as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
1934
0.0