Overview
Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
02 Apr, 1914 (112 years old)
Alec Guinness
Biography
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE 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.
Known For
Acting
1982
Smiley's People
1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1976
Murder by Death
1970
Scrooge
1970
Cromwell
1966
The Quiller Memorandum
1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
1959
Our Man in Havana
1957
Barnacle Bill
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1955
The Ladykillers
1955
The Prisoner
1953
The Captain's Paradise
1952
The Card
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
1950
Last Holiday
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1948
Oliver Twist
