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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was a consummate English actor. In the British Film Institute listing of 1999 of the 100 most important British films of the 20th century, Guinness was single most noted actor, represented across nine films — six in starring roles and three in supporting ...
Alec Guinness. Actor: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Alec Guinness was an English actor of stage and screen, his career spanning over sixty years. His best known screen works are his starring roles in several of the Ealing comedies between 1949 and 1957 (most notably as eight members of the same family in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), his Oscar-nominated turn as bank clerk turned ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Alec Guinness (born April 2, 1914, London, England—died August 5, 2000, Midhurst, West Sussex) was a British actor famous for the variety and excellence of his stage and screen characterizations. Tall and unremarkable in appearance, he played a great range of characters throughout his long career.
Alec Guinness on stage and screen. Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (1914–2000) was a consummate English actor. In the British Film Institute listing of 1999 of the 100 most important British films of the 20th century, Guinness was single most noted actor, represented across nine films — six in starring roles and three in supporting roles.
Alec Guinness. Actor: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Alec Guinness was an English actor of stage and screen, his career spanning over sixty years. His best known screen works are his starring roles in several of the Ealing comedies between 1949 and 1957 (most notably as eight members of the same family in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), his Oscar-nominated turn as bank clerk turned ...
Aug 8, 2000 · Sir Alec Guinness, who has died aged 86, was the most versatile and subtle actor of his time, in the cinema and on television no less than on the stage. His virtuosity reached a peak in the Ealing ...
Aug 5, 2000 · Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 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 ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Here are the great man’s most memorable performances. 2 April 2014. Star Wars (1977) By Patrick Fahy. Lists. Few people could lay as much claim as Sir Alec Guinness to being the face of British cinema. He was a commanding and welcome presence in film, theatre and television for over half a century, more versatile than most movie stars and ...
Aug 17, 2000 · Thursday, 17 August, 2000, 11:16 GMT 12:16 UK. Sir Alec Guinness - Your memories and tributes. The world of showbusiness is paying tribute to one of Britain's best loved and most respected screen and stage actors, Sir Alec Guinness, who has died at the age of 86. During a career that spanned six decades he made more than seventy films, starring ...
Of the great acting knights of the 20th century, none so whole-heartedly embraced the cinema as the chameleon Sir Alec Guinness. True, he began on the stage in 1934, having trained with the Fay Compton School (and privately with Martita Hunt), and would return to it regularly, with laudable results. Prewar he joined the Old Vic, playing a wide ...
