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.

- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
- Tuesday at 5.45pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
- Wednesday at 3.30pm 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)
- Tuesday at 8pm on Sky Cinema Action HD
- Wednesday at 5.45pm on Sky Cinema Action
- The Rebel Alliance takes refuge from Darth Vader on a frozen planet.
- The Captain’s Paradise (1953)
- Wednesday at 10.20am on Talking Pictures
- The captain of a steamer plying between Gibraltar and Tangier has a wife in each port, one to suit each of his personalities.

- 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.