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Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Highest Rated: 100% The Ladykillers (1955)

Lowest Rated: 27% The Comedians (1967)

Birthday: Apr 2, 1914

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Sir Alec Guinness, acting's preeminent master of disguise, first drew attention as Fagin, providing a wonderfully Dickensian performance that totally concealed the actor within in David Lean's "Oliver Twist" (1948). His most dramatic display of versatility came playing eight roles, including a woman, in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), a film that established him beyond a shadow of a doubt as an expert at make-up and deception. Whether he was an English prime minister (Disraeli in "The Mudlark" 1950), an Arab prince ("Lawrence of Arabia" 1962), a despicable despot (Hitler in "The Last Ten Days" 1973) or an Indian professor ("A Passage to India" 1984), Guinness demonstrated a chameleon-like ability to disappear so completely within the role that filmgoers forgot they were watching an actor and saw the character instead.

Highest rated movies

100% Damn the Defiant!
100% The Ladykillers
100% The Lavender Hill Mob
100% The Man in the White Suit
100% Last Holiday
100% Kind Hearts and Coronets
100% Oliver Twist
100% Great Expectations

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BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Alec Guinness, 1957 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Alec Guinness, 1957 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Alec Guinness, 1957 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, Alec Guinness, 1965 LAST HOLIDAY, Alec Guinness, 1950 THE MUDLARK, Alec Guiness, 1950, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE MUDLARK, Alec Guinness, 1950 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, Gregoire Aslan, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Maureen O'Hara, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 OUR MAN IN HAVANA, Alec Guinness, 1959 SITUATION HOPELESS BUT NOT SERIOUS, Alec Guinness, 1965 SITUATION HOPELESS BUT NOT SERIOUS, Alec Guinness, 1965 GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Alec Guinness, 1946 GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Alec Guinness, 1946
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 99% Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - 40th Anniversary Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Interview Day James (Character) - 1996
85% 65% Mute Witness The Reaper (Character) $962.2K 1995
No Score Yet 71% A Foreign Field Amos (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales From Hollywood Heinrich Mann (Character) - 1992
52% 72% Kafka The Chief Clerk (Character) $57.6K 1991
No Score Yet 80% Little Dorrit Part Two: Little Dorrit's Story William Dorrit (Character) $644.6K 1988
No Score Yet 83% Little Dorrit Part One: Nobody's Fault William Dorrit (Character) - 1988
83% 46% A Handful of Dust Mr. Todd (Character) $1.6M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Monsignor Quixote Father Quixote (Character) - 1985
79% 79% A Passage to India Godbole (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Edwin Sir Fennimore Truscott (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Future Schlock Unknown (Character) - 1984
82% 94% Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) $314.3M 1983
40% 36% Lovesick Sigmund Freud (Character) - 1983
38% 28% Raise the Titanic John Bigalow (Character) - 1980
95% 97% Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) $291.9M 1980
No Score Yet 80% Little Lord Fauntleroy Earl of Dorincourt (Character) - 1980
93% 96% Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi (Character) $345 1977
68% 82% Murder by Death Jamesir Bensonmum (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ceasar and Cleopatra Julius Caesar (Character) - 1976
42% 78% Brother Sun, Sister Moon Pope Innocent III (Character) - 1973
38% 55% Hitler: The Last Ten Days Adolf Hitler (Character) - 1973
43% 69% Cromwell King Charles I (Character) - 1970
75% 84% Scrooge Jacob Marley's Ghost (Character) - 1970
27% 47% The Comedians Major H. O. Jones (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Comedians In Africa Self - 1967
No Score Yet 58% Hotel Paradiso Benedict Boniface (Character) - 1966
57% 60% The Quiller Memorandum Pol (Character) - 1966
82% 88% Doctor Zhivago Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago (Character) $87.1K 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious Wilhelm Frick (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pasternak Self - 1965
93% 69% The Fall of the Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius (Character) - 1964
93% 93% Lawrence of Arabia Prince Feisal (Character) $6.0M 1962
100% 63% Damn the Defiant! Captain Crawford (Character) - 1962
67% 63% A Majority of One Koichi Asano (Character) - 1961
95% 77% Our Man in Havana Jim Wormold (Character) - 1960
73% 78% Tunes of Glory Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 49% The Scapegoat John Barratt/Jacques De Gue (Character) - 1959
89% 76% The Horse's Mouth Gulley Jimson (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 59% All at Sea Captain William Horatio Ambrose (Character) - 1957
96% 93% The Bridge on the River Kwai Colonel Nicholson (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 71% The Swan Prince Albert (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 25% To Paris, With Love Col. Sir Edgar Fraser (Character) - 1955
100% 87% The Ladykillers Professor Marcus (Character) $22.2K 1955
56% 72% The Prisoner The Cardinal (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 61% The Malta Story Flight Lt. Peter Ross (Character) - 1954
63% 59% The Detective Father Brown (Character) - 1954
80% 68% The Captain's Paradise Captain Henry St. James (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 63% The Promoter Edward Henry `'Denry'` Machin (Character) - 1952
50% 50% Promoter Unknown (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 38% The Mudlark Benjamin Disraeli (Character) - 1951
100% 86% The Lavender Hill Mob Henry Holland (Character) $15.4K 1951
100% 81% The Man in the White Suit Sidney Stratton (Character) $8.3K 1951
100% 77% Last Holiday George Bird (Character) - 1950
100% 94% Kind Hearts and Coronets The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha (Character) $35.9K 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Run for Your Money Whimple (Character) - 1949
100% 84% Oliver Twist Fagin (Character) - 1948
100% 88% Great Expectations Herbert Pocket (Character) - 1946

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Screen One Amos (Character) 1993
90% No Score Yet Smiley's People George Smiley (Character) 1982
100% 88% Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy George Smiley (Character) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Startime Unknown (Character) 1959