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Alec Guinness
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Biography
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.
Notable films
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Murder by Death
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Star Wars
As Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Ladykillers
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Lavender Hill Mob
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Empire Strikes Back
As Obi-Wan Kenobi
Return of the Jedi
As Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Lawrence of Arabia
As Prince Feisal
Chains
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...
Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...
8 films
The Heist Film Slips Its Own Cuffs
Seven robberies that treat the job as a pretext: for politics, for grief, for a formal joke. The loot matters less than what the filmmakers smuggle out alongsid...
7 films
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Mute Witness
1995 · The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
A Handful of Dust
1988 · Mr. Todd
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Lovesick
1983 · Sigmund Freud
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Obi-Wan Kenobi
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · George Smiley
Star Wars
1977 · Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Murder by Death
1976 · Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Scrooge
1970 · Jacob Marley's Ghost
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · Marcus Aurelius
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · Prince Feisal
Our Man in Havana
1960 · Jim Wormold
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Col. Nicholson
The Ladykillers
1955 · Professor Marcus
The Captain's Paradise
1953 · Captain Henry St. James
The Card
1952 · Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
The Man in the White Suit
1951 · Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Oliver Twist
1948 · Fagin
Great Expectations
1946 · Herbert Pocket