Alec Guinness

Watch Alec Guinness on British television

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  • Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    
  
  • Tonight at 8pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Tomorrow at 3.15pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Wednesday at 12.45am on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Wednesday at 5.40pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  • The Rebel Alliance takes refuge from Darth Vader on a frozen planet.
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  • Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
    
  
  • Today at 5.45pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Tomorrow at 1pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Tomorrow at 10.30pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
  
  • Wednesday at 3.25pm on Sky Cinema Action 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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  • The Man in the White Suit (1951)
    
  
  • Tomorrow at 3.25pm on BBC Two HD
  • A scientist produces a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. Unions and management are equally aghast.
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  • Father Brown (1954)
    
    [as The Detective]
  
  • Friday at 3pm on Sony Movies Classic
  
  • Friday at 4pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
  
  • 13^th April at 9.30am on Sony Movies Classic
  
  • 13^th April at 10.30am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
  • A Catholic clergyman retrieves a priceless church cross from master thief Flambeau.
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  • The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  
  • Friday at 4pm on BBC Two HD
  • A timid bank clerk conceives and executes a bullion robbery.
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  • HMS Defiant (1962)
    
    [as Damn the Defiant!]
  
  • Saturday at 3.15pm on Paramount Network HD
  
  • Saturday at 4.15pm on Paramount Network Plus 1
  
  • Saturday at 4.20pm on Paramount Network HD
  
  • Saturday at 5.20pm on Paramount Network Plus 1
  • Mutiny erupts on an 18th-century British sailing ship.
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  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    
  
  • Sunday at 1.05pm on Sony Movies Classic
  
  • Sunday at 2.05pm on Sony Movies Classic
  
  • Sunday at 2.05pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
  
  • Sunday at 3.05pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
  • An adventurer’s life with the Arabs, told in flashbacks after his accidental death in the thirties.
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  • Tunes of Glory (1960)
    
  
  • 13^th April at 4.10am on Sony Movies Classic
  
  • 13^th April at 5.10am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
  • The new disciplinarian CO of a Highland regiment crosses swords with his lax, hard-drinking predecessor.
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  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    
  
  • 13^th April at 2.15pm on Channel 5 HD
  
  • 13^th April at 3.15pm on Channel 5 Plus 1
  
  • 13^th April at 3.20pm on Channel 5 HD
  
  • 13^th April at 4.20pm on Channel 5 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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  • The Ladykillers (1955)
    
  
  • 14^th April at 8.05am 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

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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.