
Alec Guinness
Acting · Born 1914-04-02 · age 86 at death · Marylebone, London, England, UK
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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.
Titles

Star Wars

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Lawrence of Arabia

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Doctor Zhivago

Murder by Death

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Ladykillers

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Great Expectations

A Passage to India

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Lavender Hill Mob

Oliver Twist

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Man in the White Suit

Scrooge

Mute Witness

Kafka

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Our Man in Havana

Raise the Titanic

Cromwell

The Quiller Memorandum

Tunes of Glory

H.M.S. Defiant

Last Holiday

Smiley's People

The Horse's Mouth

The Comedians

The Card

A Handful of Dust

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

The Scapegoat

The Swan

Father Brown

The Captain's Paradise

Great Performances

Barnacle Bill

Malta Story

The Prisoner

The Story of Star Wars

A Run for Your Money

A Majority of One

Lovesick

Little Dorrit

Hotel Paradiso

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

The Mudlark

When Star Wars Ruled the World

To Paris with Love

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Thirty-Minute Theatre

American Playhouse

Twelfth Night