Sir Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness played a huge diversity of roles throughout his career and starred in some of the biggest films of all time. He featured in a number of Ealing Comedies, including "The Ladykillers", "The Man in the White Suit" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets" where he played nine different characters. To many he will be remembered as the original Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" (1977) franchise. His excellence as a character actor is especially notable in the six collaborations he made with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in "Great Expectations" (1946), Fagin in "Oliver Twist" (1948), Col. Nicholson in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and Professor Godbole in "A Passage to India" (1984). To learn more about Alec Guinness click and explore any of the media channels in the tool-bar above.