Acting

Alec Guinness

Born 1914-04-02 · Marylebone, London, England, UK

Died 2000-08-05

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.

Credits

Newest first

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2022
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2019
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
as Self
2015
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Starring Sigmund Freud
as (archive footage)
2012
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2006
When Star Wars Ruled the World
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
The Story of Star Wars
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Eskimo Day
as James
1996
Mute Witness
as The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
1995
A Foreign Field
as Amos
1993
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Tales from Hollywood
as Heinrich Mann
1992
Kafka
as The Chief Clerk
1991
Performance
as Heinrich Mann
1991
Screen One
as Amos
1989
A Handful of Dust
as Mr. Todd
1988
Little Dorrit
as William Dorrit
1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Thanks
1987
Monsignor Quixote
as Father Quixote
1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
1985
A Passage to India
as Professor Godbole
1984
Edwin
as Sir Fennimore Truscott
1984
Return of the Jedi
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983
Lovesick
as Sigmund Freud
1983
Smiley's People
as George Smiley
1982
American Playhouse
as Heinrich Mann
1982
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
1980
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
1980
Raise the Titanic
as John Bigalow
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
1980
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley
1979
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
The South Bank Show
as Self
1978
The Making of Star Wars
as Self
1977
Star Wars
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1977
Murder by Death
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Caesar
1976
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
The Gift of Friendship
as Jocelyn Broome
1974
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Adolf Hitler
1973
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Papst Innozenz III.
1972
Film '72
as Self
1971
Great Performances
as Father Quixote
1971
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970
The Ealing Comedies
as Self
1970
Cromwell
as King Charles I
1970
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
1970
The Comedians
as Major H. O. Jones
1967
Omnibus
as Self
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Jocelyn Broome
1967
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
1967
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
The Quiller Memorandum
as Pol
1966
Hotel Paradiso
as Benedict Boniface
1966
Pasternak
as Self (archive footage)
1965
Doctor Zhivago
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
as Wilhelm Frick
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as The Executioner
1965
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Marcus Aurelius
1964
Lawrence of Arabia
as Prince Feisal
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
as Captain Crawford
1962
A Majority of One
as Koichi Asano
1961
Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960
Our Man in Havana
as Jim Wormold
1960
Startime
as Jebal Deeks
1959
The Scapegoat
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1959
The Horse's Mouth
as Gulley Jimson
1958
The Horse's Mouth
Writer
1958
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
1958
...On Seeing Film
as Self
1958
Barnacle Bill
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Col. Nicholson
1957
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956