Alec Guinness

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England, UK

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

02 April 1914, 111 years old

Known For

Star Wars

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Lawrence of Arabia

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Doctor Zhivago

Murder by Death

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)

Self (archive footage)

2021

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

2019

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

2015

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

Self

2015

Starring Sigmund Freud

(archive footage)

2012

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

Self - Actor (archive footage)

2006

When Star Wars Ruled the World

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2004

The Story of Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2004

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

Self (archive footage)

2000

Eskimo Day

James

1996

Mute Witness

The Reaper

1995

A Foreign Field

Amos

1993

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Self (archive footage)

1993

Tales from Hollywood

Heinrich Mann

1992

Kafka

The Chief Clerk

1991

A Handful of Dust

Mr. Todd

1988

Little Dorrit

William Dorrit

1987

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Self (archive footage)

1987

Monsignor Quixote

Father Quixote

1985

David Lean: A Life in Film

Self

1985

A Passage to India

Professor Godbole

1984

Edwin

Sir Fennimore Truscott

1984

Return of the Jedi

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

1983

Lovesick

Sigmund Freud

1983

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Earl of Dorincourt

1980

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

Obi Wan Kenobi

1980

Raise the Titanic

John Bigalow

1980

The Empire Strikes Back

Obi-Wan Kenobi

1980

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

1978

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

1978

The Making of Star Wars

Self

1977

Star Wars

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

1977

Murder by Death

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

1976

Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar

1976

The Gift of Friendship

Jocelyn Broome

1974

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Adolf Hitler

1973

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Papst Innozenz III.

1972

Scrooge

Jacob Marley's Ghost

1970

The Ealing Comedies

Self

1970

Cromwell

King Charles I

1970

Twelfth Night

Malvolio

1970

The Comedians

Major H. O. Jones

1967

The Comedians in Africa

Self (uncredited)

1967

Lionpower from MGM

1967

The Quiller Memorandum

Pol

1966

Hotel Paradiso

Benedict Boniface

1966

Pasternak

Himself

1965

Doctor Zhivago

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

1965

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

Wilhelm Frick

1965

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Marcus Aurelius

1964

Lawrence of Arabia

Prince Feisal

1962

H.M.S. Defiant

Captain Crawford

1962

A Majority of One

Koichi Asano

1961

Tunes of Glory

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

1960

Our Man in Havana

Jim Wormold

1960

The Scapegoat

John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

1959

The Horse's Mouth

Gulley Jimson

1958

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

Self

1958

Barnacle Bill

Captain William Horatio Ambrose

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Col. Nicholson

1957

The Swan

Prince Albert

1956

The Ladykillers

Professor Marcus

1955

The Prisoner

The Cardinal

1955

To Paris with Love

Sir Edgar Fraser

1955

Rowlandson's England

Narrator

1955

The Stratford Adventure

Self

1954

Father Brown

1954

The Captain's Paradise

Captain Henry St. James

1953

Malta Story

Flight Lt. Peter Ross

1953

The Card

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

1952

The Man in the White Suit

Sidney Stratton

1951

The Lavender Hill Mob

Henry 'Dutch' Holland

1951

The Mudlark

Benjamin Disraeli

1950

Last Holiday

George Bird

1950

A Run for Your Money

Whimple

1949

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

1949

Oliver Twist

Fagin

1948

Great Expectations

Herbert Pocket

1946

Evensong

W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

1934