
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