Alec Guinness
Birthday: 1914-04-02
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK
Biography: Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Movies
Star Wars
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over ...
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
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Kafka
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are...
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Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, wh...
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Pasternak
Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Bo...
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The Empire Strikes Back
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns th...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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Murder by Death
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a b...
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Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...
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Raise the Titanic
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known sourc...
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Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter...
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The Man in the White Suit
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dir...
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The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal go...
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Scrooge
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney....
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Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...
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H.M.S. Defiant
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty...
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Tunes of Glory
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major...
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The Captain's Paradise
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English...
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The Card
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business an...
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The Swan
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess ...
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The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his n...
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A Passage to India
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an India...
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Barnacle Bill
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...
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A Run for Your Money
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to ...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death ...
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A Handful of Dust
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his...
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The Quiller Memorandum
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi...
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Last Holiday
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On hi...
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
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Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final da...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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Mute Witness
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dila...
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Lovesick
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient....
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The Ealing Comedies
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funn...
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The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his re...
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The Comedians
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti....
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Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...
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The Scapegoat
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of...
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Hotel Paradiso
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe h...
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Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long ...
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A Majority of One
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a hap...
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Monsignor Quixote
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a ...
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The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by ...
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Eskimo Day
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that...
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (195...
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Twelfth Night
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of ide...
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Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave the...
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant soph...
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death ...
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When Star Wars Ruled the World
A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchis...
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family...
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Rowlandson's England
England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons....
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the...
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Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the ...
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SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing...
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The Stratford Adventure
This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon...
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Starring Sigmund Freud
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an ...
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The Story of Star Wars
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and An...
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A Foreign Field
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
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The Comedians in Africa
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians....
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David Lean: A Life in Film
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrenc...
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Edwin
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves ...
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The Making of Star Wars
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Damero...
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, un...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
The dog in dreamland? Or at least one of us is…...
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