Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Birthday: 1914-04-02

Deathday: 2000-08-05

Place of birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK

Also known as: Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, Сэр Алек Гиннесс, الک گینس

imdb_id: nm0000027

Biography:

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE 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.

Played in movies:

When Star Wars Ruled the World

Score: 8.8

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

Score: 8.6

Monsignor Quixote

Score: 8.5

The Empire Strikes Back

Score: 8.4

Star Wars

Score: 8.2

Edwin

Score: 8.0

Lawrence of Arabia

Score: 8.0

Return of the Jedi

Score: 7.9

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Score: 7.8

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Score: 7.6

Doctor Zhivago

Score: 7.5

Eskimo Day

Score: 7.5

Oliver Twist

Score: 7.5

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Score: 7.4

The Ladykillers

Score: 7.3

Great Expectations

Score: 7.3

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Score: 7.3

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

Score: 7.2

The Prisoner

Score: 7.2

The Lavender Hill Mob

Score: 7.2

Murder by Death

Score: 7.2

The Story of Star Wars

Score: 7.1

Last Holiday

Score: 7.1

Tunes of Glory

Score: 7.1

The Making of Star Wars

Score: 7.0

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Score: 7.0

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

Score: 7.0

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Score: 7.0

The Card

Score: 6.9

The Man in the White Suit

Score: 6.9

The Swan

Score: 6.8

Scrooge

Score: 6.8

The Scapegoat

Score: 6.8

A Passage to India

Score: 6.8

The Horse's Mouth

Score: 6.8

Our Man in Havana

Score: 6.7

H.M.S. Defiant

Score: 6.6

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Score: 6.5

The Mudlark

Score: 6.5

Little Dorrit

Score: 6.5

Cromwell

Score: 6.5

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Score: 6.5

Kafka

Score: 6.4

Mute Witness

Score: 6.4

Father Brown

Score: 6.4

Twelfth Night

Score: 6.4

Barnacle Bill

Score: 6.4

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

Score: 6.3

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

Score: 6.3

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Score: 6.3

A Handful of Dust

Score: 6.2

The Comedians

Score: 6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Score: 6.1

A Run for Your Money

Score: 6.0

David Lean: A Life in Film

Score: 6.0

The Stratford Adventure

Score: 6.0

Caesar and Cleopatra

Score: 6.0

Malta Story

Score: 5.9

A Majority of One

Score: 5.7

The Quiller Memorandum

Score: 5.7

Hotel Paradiso

Score: 5.5

Lovesick

Score: 5.5

The Captain's Paradise

Score: 5.5

The Comedians in Africa

Score: 5.3

Raise the Titanic

Score: 5.3

To Paris with Love

Score: 5.2

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Score: 5.0

Pasternak

Score: 5.0

Lionpower from MGM

Score: 4.5

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Score: 3.4

Tales from Hollywood

Score: 1.0

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

Score: 0.0

A Foreign Field

Score: 0.0

Starring Sigmund Freud

Score: 0.0

Rowlandson's England

Score: 0.0

Evensong

Score: 0.0

The Gift of Friendship

Score: 0.0

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

Score: 0.0

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

Score: 0.0

The Ealing Comedies

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Apostrophes

Score: 8.5

Smiley's People

Score: 7.7

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Score: 7.6

Omnibus

Score: 7.2

Screen One

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

Performance

Score: 6.0

Startime

Score: 6.0

The Steve Allen Show

Score: 5.6

The South Bank Show

Score: 5.6

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Talking Pictures

Score: 5.0