Alec Guinness
Acting • Born 1914-04-02 – Died 2000-08-05
Biography
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
96 credits
Star Wars
Movie • 1977
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Doctor Zhivago
Movie • 1965
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Movie • 1962
Prince Feisal
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Movie • 1957
Col. Nicholson
Kafka
Movie • 1991
The Chief Clerk
The Empire Strikes Back
Movie • 1980
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Return of the Jedi
Movie • 1983
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Pasternak
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Movie • 1972
Papst Innozenz III.
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1948
Fagin
The Ladykillers
Movie • 1955
Professor Marcus
Murder by Death
Movie • 1976
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Cromwell
Movie • 1970
King Charles I
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Movie • 1949
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Raise the Titanic
Movie • 1980
John Bigalow
Our Man in Havana
Movie • 1960
Jim Wormold
The Man in the White Suit
Movie • 1951
Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Movie • 1951
Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Scrooge
Movie • 1970
Jacob Marley's Ghost
Great Expectations
Movie • 1946
Herbert Pocket
H.M.S. Defiant
Movie • 1962
Captain Crawford
Tunes of Glory
Movie • 1960
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
The Captain's Paradise
Movie • 1953
Captain Henry St. James
The Card
Movie • 1952
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
The Horse's Mouth
Movie • 1958
Gulley Jimson
The Swan
Movie • 1956
Prince Albert
A Passage to India
Movie • 1984
Professor Godbole
Barnacle Bill
Movie • 1957
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
A Run for Your Money
Movie • 1949
Whimple
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie • 1980
Earl of Dorincourt
A Handful of Dust
Movie • 1988
Mr. Todd
The Quiller Memorandum
Movie • 1966
Pol
Last Holiday
Movie • 1950
George Bird
Little Dorrit
Movie • 1987
William Dorrit
Malta Story
Movie • 1953
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Movie • 1973
Adolf Hitler
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Movie • 1964
Marcus Aurelius
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie • 2007
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mute Witness
Movie • 1995
The Reaper
Lovesick
Movie • 1983
Sigmund Freud
The Ealing Comedies
Movie • 1970
Self
The Prisoner
Movie • 1955
The Cardinal
The Comedians
Movie • 1967
Major H. O. Jones
To Paris with Love
Movie • 1955
Sir Edgar Fraser
Father Brown
Movie • 1954
Father Brown
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
The Mudlark
Movie • 1950
Benjamin Disraeli
The Scapegoat
Movie • 1959
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Hotel Paradiso
Movie • 1966
Benedict Boniface
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Movie • 1965
Wilhelm Frick
A Majority of One
Movie • 1961
Koichi Asano
Monsignor Quixote
Movie • 1985
Father Quixote
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
Movie • 1978
Eskimo Day
Movie • 1996
James
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Movie • 1958
Self
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1970
Malvolio
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1976
Caesar
The Gift of Friendship
Movie • 1974
Jocelyn Broome
Tales from Hollywood
Movie • 1992
Heinrich Mann
Evensong
Movie • 1934
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Movie • 2004
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Movie • 1978
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rowlandson's England
Movie • 1955
Narrator
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Movie • 2015
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Movie • 2015
Self
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Movie • 1980
Obi Wan Kenobi
The Stratford Adventure
Movie • 1954
Self
Starring Sigmund Freud
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
The Story of Star Wars
Movie • 2004
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
A Foreign Field
Movie • 1993
Amos
The Comedians in Africa
Movie • 1967
Self (uncredited)
David Lean: A Life in Film
Movie • 1985
Self
Edwin
Movie • 1984
Sir Fennimore Truscott
The Making of Star Wars
Movie • 1977
Self
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Movie • 2019
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Movie • 2006
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Lionpower from MGM
Movie • 1967
Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The South Bank Show
TV • 1978
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Julius Caesar
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Smiley's People
TV • 1982
George Smiley
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Startime
TV • 1959
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
TV • 1979
George Smiley
Performance
TV • 1991
Heinrich Mann
Screen One
TV • 1989
Amos
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Apostrophes
TV • 1975
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Father Quixote
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)