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

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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.

- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
- Friday at 8.30am on Sky Cinema Action HD
- Sunday at 6am on Sky Cinema Action
- 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.
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Friday at 10.45am on Sky Cinema Action HD
- Sunday at 8.15am on Sky Cinema Action
- The Rebel Alliance takes refuge from Darth Vader on a frozen planet.
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- 30^th August at 3.40am on Sky Cinema Drama HD
- A Moscow doctor is caught up in World War I, exiled for writing poetry, forced into partisan service and separated from his only love.

- 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.