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

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

Star Wars

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Prince Feisal

Lawrence of Arabia

Col. Nicholson

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Chief Clerk

Kafka

Himself

Pasternak

Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Empire Strikes Back

Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

Return of the Jedi

Papst Innozenz III.

Fratello sole, sorella luna

Fagin

Oliver Twist

Professor Marcus

The Ladykillers

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Murder by Death

King Charles I

Cromwell

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

Kind Hearts and Coronets

John Bigalow

Raise the Titanic

Jim Wormold

Our Man in Havana

Sidney Stratton

The Man in the White Suit

Henry 'Dutch' Holland

The Lavender Hill Mob

Jacob Marley's Ghost

Scrooge

Herbert Pocket

Great Expectations

Captain Crawford

H.M.S. Defiant

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

Tunes of Glory

Captain Henry St. James

The Captain's Paradise

Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

The Card

Gulley Jimson

The Horse's Mouth

Prince Albert

The Swan

Professor Godbole

A Passage to India

Captain William Horatio Ambrose

Barnacle Bill

Whimple

A Run for Your Money

Earl of Dorincourt

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Mr. Todd

A Handful of Dust

Pol

The Quiller Memorandum

George Bird

Last Holiday

William Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Flight Lt. Peter Ross

Malta Story

Adolf Hitler

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Marcus Aurelius

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hitler: The Comedy Years

The Reaper

Mute Witness

Sigmund Freud

Lovesick

Self

The Ealing Comedies

The Cardinal

The Prisoner

Major H. O. Jones

The Comedians

Sir Edgar Fraser

To Paris with Love

Father Brown

Father Brown

Self (archive footage)

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

Benjamin Disraeli

The Mudlark

John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

The Scapegoat

Benedict Boniface

Hotel Paradiso

Wilhelm Frick

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

Koichi Asano

A Majority of One

Father Quixote

Monsignor Quixote

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness

James

Eskimo Day

Self

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

Malvolio

Twelfth Night

Jocelyn Broome

The Gift of Friendship

Caesar

Caesar and Cleopatra

Heinrich Mann

Tales from Hollywood

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

Evensong

Self (archive footage)

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Self (archive footage)

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

When Star Wars Ruled the World

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

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Narrator

Rowlandson's England

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Self

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

Obi Wan Kenobi

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

Self

The Stratford Adventure

(archive footage)

Starring Sigmund Freud

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

The Story of Star Wars

Amos

A Foreign Field

Self (uncredited)

The Comedians in Africa

Self

David Lean: A Life in Film

Sir Fennimore Truscott

Edwin

Self

The Making of Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Grace face à son destin

Lionpower from MGM

Self (archive footage)

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

80

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-04-02

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Alec Guinness de Cuffe