Alec Guinness

Watch Alec Guinness on British television

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  • Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
    
  
  • Today at 11.45am on Sky Cinema Greats 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)
    
  
  • Today at 1.55pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
  • The Rebel Alliance takes refuge from Darth Vader on a frozen planet.
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  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    
  
  • Tuesday at 8.25am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
  • 25^th November at 4.15pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
  • British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile British agents seek to destroy it.
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  • Tunes of Glory (1960)
    
  
  • Thursday at 5pm on Sony Movies Action
  • Thursday at 6pm on Sony Movies Action
  • The new disciplinarian CO of a Highland regiment crosses swords with his lax, hard-drinking predecessor.
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  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    
  
  • Friday at 6am on Sky Cinema Action HD
  • Saturday at 4.15am on Sky Cinema Action
  • An adventurer’s life with the Arabs, told in flashbacks after his accidental death in the thirties.
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  • Great Expectations (1946)
    
  
  • 24^th November at 3.05pm on BBC Scotland HD
  • 24^th November at 3.05pm on BBC Two Wales HD
  • A boy meets an escaped convict on the Romney Marshes, with strange consequences for both of them.

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.