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Alec Guinness

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Alec Guinness

(1914–2000)

British actor, writer (d. 86) | The Man in the White Suit (1951), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Distinguished British stage actor, who in the late 1940s started a spectacular film career first as a master of disguise, then as a young hero and later as any character from Hitler to Obi Wan Kenobi

Mini Biography

Alec Guinness received an honorary Oscar in 1979 ‘for advancing the art of screen acting’.

Latest Alec Guinness Pictures

Screenshot from The Quiller Memorandum (1966) (1) featuring Alec Guinness as Pol — The Quiller Memorandum (1966) screenshot (1) | Alec Guinness

Main title from The Man in the White Suit (1951) (10) featuring Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton and Cecil Parker as Alan Birnley — The Man in the White Suit (1951) photograph (10) | Guinness, Parker

Photograph from The Man in the White Suit (1951) (9) featuring Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton — The Man in the White Suit (1951) photograph (9) | Alec Guinness

Photograph from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) featuring Terence Rigby (as Roy Bland) and Alec Guinness (as George Smiley) — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) photograph | Rigby, Alec Guinness

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Personal Details

Born

Died

Born

Alec Guinness was born (as Alec Guinness de Cuffe) in Marylebone, London on 2^nd April, 1914.
Died

Alec Guinness died of liver cancer in Midhurst, West Sussex on 5^th August, 2000, aged 86.

Watch Alec Guinness on British television

- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Tomorrow at 12.50am on TCM Movies HD
- Tomorrow at 1.50am on TCM Movies Plus 1
- Thursday at 9.35am on TCM Movies HD
- Thursday at 10.35am on TCM Movies Plus 1
- A Moscow doctor is caught up in World War I, exiled for writing poetry, forced into partisan service and separated from his only love.
- The Ladykillers (1955)
- Tomorrow at 11.30am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- Thursday at 4.15am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- 4^th November at 10.20am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- 5^th November at 4.25am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- An old lady takes in a sinister lodger, who with his four friends commits a robbery. When she finds out, they plot to kill her, but are hoist with their own petards.

Alec Guinness News

- Alec Guinness letters and diaries sold to the British Library
- 10^th February, 2013
- Diaries and letters of the British theatre knight, Alec Guinness, have been acquired by the British Library.