Alec Guinness 04/02/1914 , (110 years old) in Marylebone, London, England, UK

Known for department

Acting

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.

poster Scrooge (1970)

Jacob Marley's Ghost

poster Return of the Jedi (1983)

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

poster Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

poster The Ladykillers (1955)

Professor Marcus

poster A Passage to India (1984)

Professor Godbole

poster Kafka (1991)

The Chief Clerk

poster The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Henry 'Dutch' Holland

poster Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

Earl of Dorincourt

poster Cromwell (1970)

King Charles I

poster H.M.S. Defiant (1962)

Captain Crawford

poster The Card (1952)

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

poster The Swan (1956)

Prince Albert

poster Tunes of Glory (1960)

Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

poster Barnacle Bill (1957)

Captain William Horatio Ambrose

poster The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Captain Henry St. James

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