Alec Guinness
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.
99 acting credits
Acting · 99
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Great Performances
1971
Star Wars
1977
Omnibus
1967
Apostrophes
1975
The Oscars
1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
The South Bank Show
1978
Performance
1991
Return of the Jedi
1983
Startime
1959
Screen One
1989
MGM Parade
1955
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Smiley's People
1982
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Talking Pictures
2013
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Oliver Twist
1948
Great Expectations
1946
Scrooge
1970
Murder by Death
1976
Raise the Titanic
1980
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
Mute Witness
1995
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
Kafka
1991
A Passage to India
1984
Cromwell
1970
The Ladykillers
1955
Father Brown
1954
The Man in the White Suit
1951
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
The Swan
1956
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
Lovesick
1983
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
2015
Lionpower from MGM
1967
A Handful of Dust
1988
Little Dorrit
1987
The Card
1952
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Our Man in Havana
1960
Barnacle Bill
1957
Last Holiday
1950
The Scapegoat
1959
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
2000
The Story of Star Wars
2004
The Captain's Paradise
1953
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
Malta Story
1953
A Foreign Field
1993
Tunes of Glory
1960
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
The Making of Star Wars
1977
When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004
The Prisoner
1955
The Comedians
1967
Hotel Paradiso
1966
The Mudlark
1950
A Run for Your Money
1949
The Ealing Comedies
1970
Twelfth Night
1970
Monsignor Quixote
1985
A Majority of One
1961
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
The Horse's Mouth
1958
Eskimo Day
1996
The Gift of Friendship
1974
David Lean: A Life in Film
1985
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
Tales from Hollywood
1992
The Stratford Adventure
1954
To Paris with Love
1955
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
Edwin
1984
Evensong
1934
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
The Comedians in Africa
1967
Rowlandson's England
1955
Pasternak
1965
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2021
Caesar and Cleopatra
1976
...On Seeing Film
1958