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Alec Guinness

British actor, writer (1914–2000) | The Man in the White Suit (1951), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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

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Alec Guinness received an honorary Oscar in 1979 ‘for advancing the art of screen acting’.

Latest Alec Guinness Pictures

Main title from The Man in the White Suit (1951) (10) featuring Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton and Cecil Parker as Alan Birnley
  • 30th August, 2019
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker
The Man in the White Suit (1951) photograph (10) | Guinness, Parker
Photograph from The Man in the White Suit (1951) (9) featuring Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton
  • 30th August, 2019
Alec Guinness
The Man in the White Suit (1951) photograph (9) | Alec Guinness
Photograph from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) featuring Terence Rigby (as Roy Bland) and Alec Guinness (as George Smiley)
  • 28th August, 2019
Alec Guinness, Terence Rigby
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) photograph | Rigby, Alec Guinness
Photograph from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) featuring Alec Guinness (as George Smiley) (1)
  • 28th August, 2019
Alec Guinness
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) photograph (1) | Alec Guinness

Select Alec Guinness Filmography

Great Expectations (1946) opening credits
Great Expectations (1946)
Herbert Pocket
Oliver Twist (1948) opening credits
Oliver Twist (1948)
Fagin
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) opening credits
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The D’Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
A Run for Your Money opening credits
A Run for Your Money (1949)
Whimple
Last Holiday (1950) opening credits (4)
Last Holiday (1950)
George Bird
The Man in the White Suit (1951) opening credits
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Sidney Stratton
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) opening credits (4)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Holland
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) opening credits (4)
The Card (1952)
Edward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin
Malta Story (1953) opening credits
Malta Story (1953)
Flight Lt Peter Ross
The Capt’s Paradise (1953) opening credits (3)
The Captain’s Paradise (1953)
Capt Henry St. James
Father Brown (1954) opening credits (3)
Father Brown (1954)
Father Brown
To Paris with Love (1955) opening credits (4)
To Paris with Love (1955)
Col Sir Edgar Fraser
The Ladykillers (1955) opening credits (5)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Professor Marcus
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) opening credits (6)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Colonel Nicholson
Barnacle Bill (1957) opening credits (5)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
Capt William Horatio Ambrose
Barnacle Bill (1957) opening credits (5)
The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
Gulley Jimson
Our Man in Havana (1959) opening credits (8)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Jim Wormold
Tunes of Glory (1960) opening credits (4)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Major Jock Sinclair, DSO MM
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) opening credits (3)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Prince Feisal
HMS Defiant (1962) opening credits (1) [as Damn the Defiant!]
HMS Defiant (1962)
Captain Crawford
HMS Defiant (1962) opening credits (1) [as Damn the Defiant!]
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Marcus Aurelius
Doctor Zhivago (1965) opening credits (4)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Yevgraf
Cromwell (1970) opening credits
Cromwell (1970)
King Charles ‘Stuart’ I
Cromwell (1970) opening credits
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
Cromwell (1970) opening credits
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Ben
Raise the Titanic (1980) opening credits (3)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
John Bigalow
Raise the Titanic (1980) opening credits (3)
A Passage to India (1984)
Godbole
Little Dorrit (1987) screenshot (1)
Little Dorrit (1987)
William Dorrit
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