Cast & creator
Alec Guinness
Best known for Great Performances, The South Bank Show, American Playhouse
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.
Also known as: Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness
84
film credits
19
television credits
101
1934–2022 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (103)
Showing 103 of 103 credits
Great Performances
Father Quixote
1971
The South Bank Show
Self
1978
American Playhouse
Heinrich Mann
1982
Apostrophes
Self
1975
ITV Playhouse
Jocelyn Broome
1967
Omnibus
Self
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948Film '72
Self
1971
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Executioner
1965
Star Wars
Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
1977
The Oscars
Self
1953
Performance
Heinrich Mann
1991
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
2015
Screen One
Amos
1989
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
2019
MGM Parade
self
1955
The Empire Strikes Back
Obi-Wan Kenobi
1980
Return of the Jedi
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
1983
Startime
Jebal Deeks
1959
Lawrence of Arabia
Prince Feisal
1962
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Col. Nicholson
1957
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
1979
Doctor Zhivago
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1965
Smiley's People
George Smiley
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Julius Caesar
1951
Murder by Death
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
1976
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Marcus Aurelius
1964
Oliver Twist
Fagin
1948
A Passage to India
Professor Godbole
1984
Great Expectations
Herbert Pocket
1946
The Ladykillers
Professor Marcus
1955
Raise the Titanic
John Bigalow
1980
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
1949
Mute Witness
The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
1995
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Adolf Hitler
1973
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Papst Innozenz III.
1972
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold
1960
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Earl of Dorincourt
1980
H.M.S. Defiant
Captain Crawford
1962
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry 'Dutch' Holland
1951
The Man in the White Suit
Sidney Stratton
1951
A Handful of Dust
Mr. Todd
1988
Scrooge
Jacob Marley's Ghost
1970
Kafka
The Chief Clerk
1991
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
1980
Cromwell
King Charles I
1970
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Self - (archive footage)
2022
The Scapegoat
John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
1959
The Swan
Prince Albert
1956
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
The Making of Star Wars
Self
1977
The Quiller Memorandum
Pol
1966
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
1967
Pasternak
Self (archive footage)
1965
The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson
1958The Horse's Mouth
Writer
1958
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self (archive footage)
1987Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Thanks
1987
Monsignor Quixote
Father Quixote
1985
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
Wilhelm Frick
1965
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2006
The Card
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1952
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Self
2015
Little Dorrit
William Dorrit
1987
The Prisoner
The Cardinal
1955
The Story of Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
2004
The Captain's Paradise
Captain Henry St. James
1953
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1993
Last Holiday
George Bird
1950
Twelfth Night
Malvolio
1970
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
Tunes of Glory
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
1960
A Run for Your Money
Whimple
1949
The Comedians
Major H. O. Jones
1967
To Paris with Love
Sir Edgar Fraser
1955
Lovesick
Sigmund Freud
1983
A Majority of One
Koichi Asano
1961
Barnacle Bill
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
1957
Edwin
Sir Fennimore Truscott
1984Starring Sigmund Freud
(archive footage)
2012
Father Brown
Father Brown
1954
Hotel Paradiso
Benedict Boniface
1966
The Gift of Friendship
Jocelyn Broome
1974
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
1985
Eskimo Day
James
1996
Malta Story
Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1953
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Self (archive footage)
2000A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
Self (archive footage)
2021
Tales from Hollywood
Heinrich Mann
1992
Evensong
W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
1934
The Mudlark
Benjamin Disraeli
1950
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Self
1958
A Foreign Field
Amos
1993
The Ealing Comedies
Self
1970
The Stratford Adventure
Self
1954
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar
1976
...On Seeing Film
Self
1958The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1978Rowlandson's England
Narrator
1955