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.
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)
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