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: Acting

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

Died: 2000-08-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Evensong	W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)	0
2	1946	Great Expectations	Herbert Pocket	73
3	1948	Oliver Twist	Fagin	75
4	1949	Kind Hearts and Coronets	The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha	77
5	1949	A Run for Your Money	Whimple	59
6	1950	Last Holiday	George Bird	72
7	1950	The Mudlark	Benjamin Disraeli	65
8	1951	The Lavender Hill Mob	Henry 'Dutch' Holland	72
9	1951	The Man in the White Suit	Sidney Stratton	68
10	1952	The Card	Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin	69
11	1953	Malta Story	Flight Lt. Peter Ross	58
12	1953	The Captain's Paradise	Captain Henry St. James	55
13	1954	Father Brown	Father Brown	62
14	1954	The Stratford Adventure	Self	60
15	1955	To Paris with Love	Sir Edgar Fraser	50
16	1955	Rowlandson's England	Narrator	0
17	1955	The Prisoner	The Cardinal	72
18	1955	The Ladykillers	Professor Marcus	73
19	1956	The Swan	Prince Albert	69
20	1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Col. Nicholson	78
21	1957	Barnacle Bill	Captain William Horatio Ambrose	64
22	1958	The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant	Self	0
23	1958	The Horse's Mouth	Gulley Jimson	67
24	1959	The Scapegoat	John Barratt / Jacques De Gue	68
25	1960	Our Man in Havana	Jim Wormold	67
26	1960	Tunes of Glory	Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.	71
27	1961	A Majority of One	Koichi Asano	57
28	1962	H.M.S. Defiant	Captain Crawford	65
29	1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Prince Feisal	80
30	1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Marcus Aurelius	65
31	1965	Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious	Wilhelm Frick	70
32	1965	Doctor Zhivago	Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago	75
33	1965	Pasternak	Himself	50
34	1966	Hotel Paradiso	Benedict Boniface	54
35	1966	The Quiller Memorandum	Pol	57
36	1967	The Comedians in Africa	Self (uncredited)	53
37	1967	The Comedians	Major H. O. Jones	61
38	1970	Twelfth Night	Malvolio	64
39	1970	Cromwell	King Charles I	65
40	1970	The Ealing Comedies	Self	0
41	1970	Scrooge	Jacob Marley's Ghost	69
42	1972	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	Papst Innozenz III.	70
43	1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Adolf Hitler	61
44	1974	The Gift of Friendship	Jocelyn Broome	0
45	1976	Caesar and Cleopatra	Caesar	60
46	1976	Murder by Death	Butler Jamesir Bensonmum	72
47	1977	Star Wars	Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi	82
48	1977	The Making of Star Wars	Self	70
49	1978	The Star Wars Holiday Special	Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)	34
50	1978	The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness		0
51	1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Obi-Wan Kenobi	84
52	1980	Raise the Titanic	John Bigalow	53
53	1980	SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back	Obi Wan Kenobi	86
54	1980	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Earl of Dorincourt	74
55	1983	Lovesick	Sigmund Freud	55
56	1983	Return of the Jedi	Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi	79
57	1984	Edwin	Sir Fennimore Truscott	80
58	1984	A Passage to India	Professor Godbole	68
59	1985	Monsignor Quixote	Father Quixote	85
60	1985	David Lean: A Life in Film	Self	60
61	1987	Grace Kelly: The American Princess	Self (archive footage)	65
62	1987	Little Dorrit	William Dorrit	65
63	1988	A Handful of Dust	Mr. Todd	62
64	1991	Kafka	The Chief Clerk	64
65	1992	Tales from Hollywood	Heinrich Mann	10
66	1993	Audrey Hepburn: Remembered	Self (archive footage)	70
67	1993	A Foreign Field	Amos	0
68	1995	Mute Witness	The Reaper	64
69	1996	Eskimo Day	James	80
70	2000	The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'	Self (archive footage)	63
71	2003	The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'	Self (archive footage)	70
72	2004	The Story of Star Wars	Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)	70
73	2004	When Star Wars Ruled the World	Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)	87
74	2006	Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess	Self - Actor (archive footage)	72
75	2007	Hitler: The Comedy Years	Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
76	2012	Starring Sigmund Freud	(archive footage)	0
77	2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)	73
78	2015	Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel	Self	63
79	2019	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)	63
80	2022	Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return	Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)	68

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Julius Caesar	87
3	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
4	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"	50
5	1959	Startime		60
6	1967	Omnibus	Self	74
7	1971	Great Performances	Father Quixote	54
8	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
9	1978	The South Bank Show	Self	56
10	1979	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	George Smiley	76
11	1982	Smiley's People	George Smiley	77
12	1989	Screen One	Amos	70
13	1991	Performance	Heinrich Mann	60
14	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50