Alec Guinness

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

The South Bank Show

Apostrophes

The Ed Sullivan Show

Star Wars

The Steve Allen Show

Great Performances

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Lawrence of Arabia

Scrooge

Acting

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel as Self

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2012

Starring Sigmund Freud as (archive footage)

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2004

When Star Wars Ruled the World as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

The Story of Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2003

The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia' as Self (archive footage)

2000

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' as Self (archive footage)

1996

Eskimo Day as James

1995

Mute Witness as The Reaper

1993

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)

A Foreign Field as Amos

1992

Tales from Hollywood as Heinrich Mann

1991

Kafka as The Chief Clerk

Performance as Heinrich Mann

1989

Screen One as Amos

1988

A Handful of Dust as Mr. Todd

1987

Little Dorrit as William Dorrit

Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)

1985

Monsignor Quixote as Father Quixote

David Lean: A Life in Film as Self

1984

A Passage to India as Professor Godbole

Edwin as Sir Fennimore Truscott

1983

Return of the Jedi as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

Lovesick as Sigmund Freud

1982

Smiley's People as George Smiley

1980

The Empire Strikes Back as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Raise the Titanic as John Bigalow

Little Lord Fauntleroy as Earl of Dorincourt

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Obi Wan Kenobi

1979

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley

1978

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

The Star Wars Holiday Special as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

The South Bank Show as Self

1977

Star Wars as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

The Making of Star Wars as Self

1976

Murder by Death as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Caesar and Cleopatra as Caesar

1975

Apostrophes as Self

1974

The Gift of Friendship as Jocelyn Broome

1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Adolf Hitler

1972

Brother Sun, Sister Moon as Papst Innozenz III.

1971

Great Performances as Father Quixote

1970

Cromwell as King Charles I

Scrooge as Jacob Marley's Ghost

The Ealing Comedies as Self

Twelfth Night as Malvolio

1967

The Comedians as Major H. O. Jones

The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)

Omnibus as Self

1966

The Quiller Memorandum as Pol

Hotel Paradiso as Benedict Boniface

1965

Doctor Zhivago as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Pasternak as Himself

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious as Wilhelm Frick

1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire as Marcus Aurelius

1962

Lawrence of Arabia as Prince Feisal

H.M.S. Defiant as Captain Crawford

1961

A Majority of One as Koichi Asano

1960

Our Man in Havana as Jim Wormold

Tunes of Glory as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

1959

The Scapegoat as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

Startime

1958

The Horse's Mouth as Gulley Jimson

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant as Self

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai as Col. Nicholson

Barnacle Bill as Captain William Horatio Ambrose

1956

The Swan as Prince Albert

The Steve Allen Show as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

1955

The Ladykillers as Professor Marcus

The Prisoner as The Cardinal

To Paris with Love as Sir Edgar Fraser

Rowlandson's England as Narrator

1954

Father Brown as Father Brown

The Stratford Adventure as Self

1953

The Captain's Paradise as Captain Henry St. James

Malta Story as Flight Lt. Peter Ross

The Oscars as Self

1952

The Card as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

1951

The Man in the White Suit as Sidney Stratton

The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Julius Caesar

1950

Last Holiday as George Bird

The Mudlark as Benjamin Disraeli

1949

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

A Run for Your Money as Whimple

1948

Oliver Twist as Fagin

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1946

Great Expectations as Herbert Pocket

1934

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