Alec Guinness Biography

About Alec Guinness

Born: 1914
Died: 2000

Famous British actor, well-loved performer.

Most famous for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Starwars, a fact which frustrated him in later life as he tried to play down his involvement with the film.

His filmography is very long and glittering, films include:

Evensong (1934)
Great Expectations (1946)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
A Run for Your Money (1949)
Last Holiday (1950)
The Mudlark (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Card (1952)
The Square Mile (1953) (short subject) (narrator)
Malta Story (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Father Brown (1954)
The Stratford Adventure (1954) (short subject) (narrator)
Rowlandson's England (1955) (short subject) (narrator)
To Paris with Love (1955)
The Prisoner (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Swan (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
All at Sea (1957)
The Horse's Mouth (1958) (also writer)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
A Majority of One (1962)
HMS Defiant (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Pasternak (1965) (short subject)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
The Comedians in Africa (1967) (short subject)
The Comedians (1967)
Cromwell (1970)
Scrooge (1970)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Murder by Death (1976)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Lovesick (1983)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
A Passage to India (1984)
Little Dorrit (1988)
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Kafka (1991)
A Foreign Field (1993)
Mute Witness (1994)

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