Acting
Alec Guinness
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.
Titles
Great Performances
1971
Apostrophes
1975
The South Bank Show
1978
American Playhouse
1982
ITV Playhouse
1967
Star Wars
1977
Omnibus
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
The Oscars
1953
Performance
1991
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Return of the Jedi
1983
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Startime
1959
MGM Parade
1955
Screen One
1989
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Smiley's People
1982
Talking Pictures
2013
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Murder by Death
1976
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
A Passage to India
1984
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
Great Expectations
1946
Raise the Titanic
1980
Oliver Twist
1948
The Ladykillers
1955
A Handful of Dust
1988