Person
Alec Guinness
Born 2 April 1914 Died 5 August 2000, aged 86 Marylebone, London, England, UK TMDB ↗
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.
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The numbers
20age in their first credit on record (1934)
85years on screen and counting
4credits in 1980, their busiest year
73dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 105 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Age: 101 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Age: 93 Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 90 When Star Wars Ruled the World
2004as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Age: 90 The Story of Star Wars
2004as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Age: 82 Eskimo Day
1996as James
Age: 81 Mute Witness
1995as The Reaper
Age: 79 A Foreign Field
1993as Amos
Age: 78 Tales from Hollywood
1992as Heinrich Mann
Age: 77 Kafka
1991as The Chief Clerk
Age: 74 A Handful of Dust
1988as Mr. Todd
Age: 73 Little Dorrit
1987as William Dorrit
Age: 70 Monsignor Quixote
1985as Father Quixote
Age: 70 A Passage to India
1984as Professor Godbole
Age: 69 Edwin
1984as Sir Fennimore Truscott
Age: 69 Return of the Jedi
1983as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Age: 68 Lovesick
1983as Sigmund Freud
Age: 66 Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980as Earl of Dorincourt
Age: 66 SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980as Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Age: 66 Raise the Titanic
1980as John Bigalow
Age: 66 The Empire Strikes Back
1980as Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Age: 64 The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978
Age: 64 The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 63 Star Wars
1977as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Age: 62 Murder by Death
1976as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Age: 61 Caesar and Cleopatra
1976as Caesar
Age: 60 The Gift of Friendship
1974as Jocelyn Broome
Age: 59 Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973as Adolf Hitler
Age: 57 Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972as Papst Innozenz III.
Age: 56 Scrooge
1970as Jacob Marley's Ghost
Age: 56 Cromwell
1970as King Charles I
Age: 56 Twelfth Night
1970as Malvolio
Age: 53 The Comedians
1967as Major H. O. Jones
Age: 52 The Quiller Memorandum
1966as Pol
Age: 51 Hotel Paradiso
1966as Benedict Boniface
Age: 51 Doctor Zhivago
1965as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Age: 51 Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965as Wilhelm Frick
Age: 49 The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964as Marcus Aurelius
Age: 48 Lawrence of Arabia
1962as Prince Feisal
Age: 48 H.M.S. Defiant
1962as Captain Crawford
Age: 47 A Majority of One
1961as Koichi Asano
Age: 46 Tunes of Glory
1960as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Age: 45 Our Man in Havana
1960as Jim Wormold
Age: 45 The Scapegoat
1959as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Age: 44 The Horse's Mouth
1958as Gulley Jimson
Age: 43 Barnacle Bill
1957as Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Age: 43 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957as Col. Nicholson
Age: 42 The Swan
1956as Prince Albert
Age: 41 The Ladykillers
1955as Professor Marcus
Age: 41 The Prisoner
1955as The Cardinal
Age: 40 To Paris with Love
1955as Sir Edgar Fraser
Age: 40 Father Brown
1954as Father Brown
Age: 39 The Captain's Paradise
1953as Captain Henry St. James
Age: 39 Malta Story
1953as Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Age: 37 The Card
1952as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Age: 37 The Man in the White Suit
1951as Sidney Stratton
Age: 37 The Lavender Hill Mob
1951as Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Age: 36 The Mudlark
1950as Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 36 Last Holiday
1950as George Bird
Age: 35 A Run for Your Money
1949as Whimple
Age: 35 Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Age: 34 Oliver Twist
1948as Fagin
Age: 32 Great Expectations
1946as Herbert Pocket
Age: 20 Evensong
1934as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
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TV credits
Age: 77 Performance
1991as Heinrich Mann
Age: 75 Screen One
1989as Amos
Age: 68 Smiley's People
1982as George Smiley
Age: 65 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979as George Smiley
Age: 56 Great Performances
1971as Father Quixote
Age: 53 ITV Playhouse
1967as Jocelyn Broome
Age: 51 Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965as The Executioner
Age: 45 Startime
1959as Jebal Deeks
Age: 37 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Julius Caesar