Alec Guinness

1914–2000 | British actor, writer

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

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

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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.

- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Sunday at 2.40pm on Sony Movies
- Sunday at 3.40pm on Sony Movie Plus 1
- Sunday at 3.40pm on Sony Movies
- An adventurer’s life with the Arabs, told in flashbacks after his accidental death in the thirties.
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Sunday at 5.45pm on 5Spike
- Sunday at 6.45pm on 5Spike Plus 1
- Sunday at 6.50pm on 5Spike
- British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile British agents seek to destroy it.

- 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.