Alec Guinness

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

Died

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.

- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Tuesday at 5.10am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- Saturday at 11.10am 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.
- The Prisoner (1955)
- Tuesday at 2.55pm on Sony Movies Action
- Tuesday at 3.55pm on Sony Movies Action
- Friday at 11.20am on Sony Movies Action
- Friday at 12.20pm on Sony Movies Action
- 2^nd November at 11.20am on Sony Movies Action
- 2^nd November at 12.20pm on Sony Movies Action
- In a European totalitarian state, a cardinal is tortured and brainwashed.
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Wednesday at 11.50am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- An adventurer’s life with the Arabs, told in flashbacks after his accidental death in the thirties.
- Father Brown (1954)
  
  [as The Detective]
- 3^rd November at 9.35am on Sony Movies Action
- A Catholic clergyman retrieves a priceless church cross from master thief Flambeau.

- 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.