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Alec Guinness
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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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.

As actor

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies

A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

Starring Sigmund Freud

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

When Star Wars Ruled the World

The Story of Star Wars

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

Eskimo Day

Mute Witness

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

A Foreign Field

Tales from Hollywood

Kafka

A Handful of Dust

Little Dorrit

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Monsignor Quixote

David Lean: A Life in Film

A Passage to India

Edwin

Return of the Jedi

Lovesick

The Empire Strikes Back

Raise the Titanic

Little Lord Fauntleroy

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back