Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he played nine different characters, The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, and The Ladykillers (1955). He collaborated six times with director David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In 1970 he played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy; for the original 1977 film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Academy Awards.

From *.wikipedia.org,
General Info
.
Male
Date of Birth
April 2nd, 1914
Age
110
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
August 5th, 2000
Died Aged
86
Star Sign
Aries
Height
176 cm | 5'9
Occupation
Actor
Social Networks , Links
Interest
Loading Chart...
Relatives
Roles
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia
Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke, The Banker, The Parson in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Bensonmum in Murder by Death
Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers
Fagin in Oliver Twist
George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sidney Stratton in The Man in the White Suit
Jacob Marley's Ghost in Scrooge
Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire
King Charles 'Stuart' I in Cromwell
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. in Tunes of Glory
Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth
Major H. O. Jones in The Comedians
Koichi Asano in A Majority of One
Benjamin Disraeli in The Mudlark
Lists
    index: 1x 0.13204002380371s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.11694097518921s
t_/pages/fms-person-json: 1x 0.11689686775208s
t_/blocks/person-card-json: 1x 0.094210863113403s
headline: 10x 0.063972473144531s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.021367073059082s
router_page: 1x 0.014365196228027s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.001086950302124s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00073385238647461s
head-facts: 1x 0.00070500373840332s
t_/common/searcher-result: 1x 1.7881393432617E-5s
----- END OF DUMP (2025-02-22 00:07:02)  -----