
Acting
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.

Great Performances
1971

Omnibus
1967

The South Bank Show
1978

Star Wars
1977

Apostrophes
1975

American Playhouse
1982

ITV Playhouse
1967

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

The Oscars
1953

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Empire Strikes Back
1980

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019

Performance
1991

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Return of the Jedi
1983

Lawrence of Arabia
1962

Startime
1959

MGM Parade
1955

Screen One
1989

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979

Doctor Zhivago
1965

Talking Pictures
2013

Great Expectations
1946

Smiley's People
1982

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964

A Passage to India
1984

The Ladykillers
1955

Oliver Twist
1948

The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978

Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980

Murder by Death
1976

Raise the Titanic
1980

Scrooge
1970

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949