Alec Guinness
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
Star Wars
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Great Performances
Father Quixote
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
The Oscars
Self
The Empire Strikes Back
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Return of the Jedi
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
The Ladykillers
Professor Marcus
Omnibus
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lawrence of Arabia
Prince Feisal
Cromwell
King Charles I
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Earl of Dorincourt
Performance
Heinrich Mann
Doctor Zhivago
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
The Card
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Last Holiday
George Bird
Mute Witness
The Reaper
Kafka
The Chief Clerk
The Scapegoat
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Col. Nicholson
The Comedians
Major H. O. Jones
The Swan
Prince Albert
Scrooge
Jacob Marley's Ghost
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
The Mudlark
Benjamin Disraeli
Lovesick
Sigmund Freud
Oliver Twist
Fagin
The Prisoner
The Cardinal
Father Brown
Father Brown
Twelfth Night
Malvolio
H.M.S. Defiant
Captain Crawford
Eskimo Day
James
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Papst Innozenz III.
Startime
Monsignor Quixote
Father Quixote
Evensong
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Tunes of Glory
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Screen One
Amos
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Marcus Aurelius
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Starring Sigmund Freud
(archive footage)
Murder by Death
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Great Expectations
Herbert Pocket
Smiley's People
George Smiley
A Passage to India
Professor Godbole
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Julius Caesar
Raise the Titanic
John Bigalow
Pasternak
Self (archive footage)
The Man in the White Suit
Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry 'Dutch' Holland
A Handful of Dust
Mr. Todd
Rowlandson's England
Narrator
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Adolf Hitler
The Quiller Memorandum
Pol
Malta Story
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Little Dorrit
William Dorrit
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold
Edwin
Sir Fennimore Truscott
Barnacle Bill
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
The Stratford Adventure
Self
The Story of Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
A Foreign Field
Amos
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Obi Wan Kenobi
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Wilhelm Frick
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Ealing Comedies
Self
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Self
Tales from Hollywood
Heinrich Mann
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Self (archive footage)
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
The Making of Star Wars
Self
Hotel Paradiso
Benedict Boniface
A Majority of One
Koichi Asano
The Gift of Friendship
Jocelyn Broome
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Captain's Paradise
Captain Henry St. James
To Paris with Love
Sir Edgar Fraser
A Run for Your Money
Whimple
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
Self (archive footage)
Apostrophes
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The South Bank Show
Self