Alec Guinness

Watch Alec Guinness on British television

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  • The Ladykillers (1955)
    
  
  • Thursday at 4.50am 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.
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  • Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
    
  
  • Thursday at 6am on Sky Cinema Monsters HD
  
  • Thursday at 8pm on Sky Cinema Monsters HD
  • A rebel princess in a distant galaxy escapes, and with the help of her robots and a young farmer overcomes the threatening forces of evil.
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  • Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    
  
  • Friday at 1.45pm on Sky Cinema Monsters HD
  
  • Friday at 10pm on Sky Cinema Monsters HD
  • The Rebel Alliance takes refuge from Darth Vader on a frozen planet.
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  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    
  
  • Saturday at 1.10pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
  
  • Sunday at 5.45pm on Paramount Network HD
  
  • Sunday at 6.45pm on Paramount Network Plus 1
  
  • Sunday at 6.50pm on Paramount Network HD
  
  • Sunday at 7.50pm on Paramount Network Plus 1
  • British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile British agents seek to destroy it.
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  • Last Holiday (1950)
    
  
  • 9^th June at 7.15pm on Talking Pictures
  • A man with a short time to live has a thoroughly enjoyable and useful final fling.

Alec Guinness News

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  • 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.