Alec Guinness

from Marylebone, London, England, UK

Artwork for Star Wars: The Force AwakensImage of Alec Guinness

Biography

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (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. His is 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.

Timeline

2022Aged 108

  • Poster for Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

    Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019Aged 105

  • Poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

2015Aged 101

  • Poster for Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

    Self

  • Poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

2012Aged 98

2007Aged 93

  • Poster for Hitler: The Comedy Years

    Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006Aged 92

  • Poster for Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2004Aged 90

  • Poster for The Story of Star Wars

    Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

  • Poster for When Star Wars Ruled the World

    Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

2003Aged 89

  • Poster for The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'

    Self (archive footage)

2000Aged 86

  • Poster for The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

    Self (archive footage)

1996Aged 82

  • Poster for Eskimo Day

    James

1995Aged 81

  • Poster for Mute Witness

    The Reaper

1993Aged 79

  • Poster for Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for A Foreign Field

    Amos

1992Aged 78

  • Poster for Tales from Hollywood

    Heinrich Mann

1991Aged 77

  • Poster for Kafka

    The Chief Clerk

1988Aged 74

  • Poster for A Handful of Dust

    Mr. Todd

1987Aged 73

  • Poster for Grace Kelly: The American Princess

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Little Dorrit

    William Dorrit

1985Aged 71

  • Poster for Monsignor Quixote

    Father Quixote

  • Poster for David Lean: A Life in Film

    Self

1984Aged 70

  • Poster for Edwin

    Sir Fennimore Truscott

  • Poster for A Passage to India

    Professor Godbole

1983Aged 69

  • Poster for Lovesick

    Sigmund Freud

  • Poster for Return of the Jedi

    Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

1980Aged 66

  • Poster for The Empire Strikes Back

    Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • Poster for Raise the Titanic

    John Bigalow

  • Poster for SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

    Obi Wan Kenobi

  • Poster for Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Earl of Dorincourt

1978Aged 64

1977Aged 63

  • Poster for Star Wars

    Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

  • Poster for The Making of Star Wars

    Self

1976Aged 62

  • Poster for Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar

  • Poster for Murder by Death

    Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

1974Aged 60

  • Poster for The Gift of Friendship

    Jocelyn Broome

1973Aged 59

  • Poster for Hitler: The Last Ten Days

    Adolf Hitler

1972Aged 58

  • Poster for Brother Sun, Sister Moon

    Papst Innozenz III.

1970Aged 56

  • Poster for Twelfth Night

    Malvolio

  • Poster for Cromwell

    King Charles I

  • Poster for The Ealing Comedies

    Self

  • Poster for Scrooge

    Jacob Marley's Ghost

1967Aged 53

  • Poster for The Comedians in Africa

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Comedians

    Major H. O. Jones

1966Aged 52

  • Poster for Hotel Paradiso

    Benedict Boniface

  • Poster for The Quiller Memorandum

    Pol

1965Aged 51

  • Poster for Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

    Wilhelm Frick

  • Poster for Doctor Zhivago

    Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

  • Poster for Pasternak

    Himself

1964Aged 50

  • Poster for The Fall of the Roman Empire

    Marcus Aurelius

1962Aged 48

  • Poster for H.M.S. Defiant

    Captain Crawford

  • Poster for Lawrence of Arabia

    Prince Feisal

1961Aged 47

  • Poster for A Majority of One

    Koichi Asano

1960Aged 46

  • Poster for Our Man in Havana

    Jim Wormold

  • Poster for Tunes of Glory

    Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

1959Aged 45

  • Poster for The Scapegoat

    John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

1958Aged 44

  • Poster for The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

    Self

  • Poster for The Horse's Mouth

    Gulley Jimson

1957Aged 43

  • Poster for The Bridge on the River Kwai

    Col. Nicholson

  • Poster for Barnacle Bill

    Captain William Horatio Ambrose

1956Aged 42

  • Poster for The Swan

    Prince Albert

1955Aged 41

1954Aged 40

  • Poster for Father Brown

    Father Brown

  • Poster for The Stratford Adventure

    Self

1953Aged 39

  • Poster for Malta Story

    Flight Lt. Peter Ross

  • Poster for The Captain's Paradise

    Captain Henry St. James

1952Aged 38

  • Poster for The Card

    Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

1951Aged 37

  • Poster for The Lavender Hill Mob

    Henry 'Dutch' Holland

  • Poster for The Man in the White Suit

    Sidney Stratton

1950Aged 36

  • Poster for Last Holiday

    George Bird

  • Poster for The Mudlark

    Benjamin Disraeli

1949Aged 35

  • Poster for Kind Hearts and Coronets

    The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

  • Poster for A Run for Your Money

    Whimple

1948Aged 34

  • Poster for Oliver Twist

    Fagin

1946Aged 32

  • Poster for Great Expectations

    Herbert Pocket

1934Aged 20

  • Poster for Evensong

    W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

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