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.

Filmography

• 2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
• 2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
• 2012Starring Sigmund Freud — (archive footage)
• 2007Hitler: The Comedy Years — Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2004The Story of Star Wars — Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
• 2004When Star Wars Ruled the World — Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
• 1996Eskimo Day — James
• 1995Mute Witness — The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
• 1993A Foreign Field — Amos
• 1992Tales from Hollywood — Heinrich Mann
• 1991Kafka — The Chief Clerk
• Performance — Heinrich Mann
• Screen One — Amos
• 1988A Handful of Dust — Mr. Todd
• 1987Grace Kelly: The American Princess — Self (archive footage), Thanks
• 1987Little Dorrit — William Dorrit
• 1985Monsignor Quixote — Father Quixote
• 1984A Passage to India — Professor Godbole
• 1984Edwin — Sir Fennimore Truscott
• 1983Lovesick — Sigmund Freud
• 1983Return of the Jedi — Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
• American Playhouse — Heinrich Mann
• Smiley's People — George Smiley
• 1980Little Lord Fauntleroy — Earl of Dorincourt
• 1980Raise the Titanic — John Bigalow
• 1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back — Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
• 1980The Empire Strikes Back — Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — George Smiley
• 1978The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
• 1978The Star Wars Holiday Special — Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1977Star Wars — Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
• 1976Caesar and Cleopatra — Caesar
• 1976Murder by Death — Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
• 1974The Gift of Friendship — Jocelyn Broome
• 1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days — Adolf Hitler
• 1972Brother Sun, Sister Moon — Papst Innozenz III.
• Great Performances — Father Quixote
• 1970Cromwell — King Charles I
• 1970Scrooge — Jacob Marley's Ghost
• 1970Twelfth Night — Malvolio
• ITV Playhouse — Jocelyn Broome
• 1967The Comedians — Major H. O. Jones
• 1966Hotel Paradiso — Benedict Boniface
• 1966The Quiller Memorandum — Pol
• 1965Doctor Zhivago — Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
• 1965Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious — Wilhelm Frick
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — The Executioner
• 1964The Fall of the Roman Empire — Marcus Aurelius
• 1962H.M.S. Defiant — Captain Crawford
• 1962Lawrence of Arabia — Prince Feisal
• 1961A Majority of One — Koichi Asano
• 1960Our Man in Havana — Jim Wormold
• 1960Tunes of Glory — Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
• Startime — Jebal Deeks
• 1959The Scapegoat — John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
• 1958The Horse's Mouth — Gulley Jimson, Writer
• 1957Barnacle Bill — Captain William Horatio Ambrose
• 1957The Bridge on the River Kwai — Col. Nicholson
• 1956The Swan — Prince Albert
• 1955Rowlandson's England — Narrator
• 1955The Ladykillers — Professor Marcus
• 1955The Prisoner — The Cardinal
• 1955To Paris with Love — Sir Edgar Fraser
• 1954Father Brown — Father Brown
• 1953Malta Story — Flight Lt. Peter Ross
• 1953The Captain's Paradise — Captain Henry St. James
• 1952The Card — Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Julius Caesar
• 1951The Lavender Hill Mob — Henry 'Dutch' Holland
• 1951The Man in the White Suit — Sidney Stratton
• 1950Last Holiday — George Bird
• 1950The Mudlark — Benjamin Disraeli
• 1949A Run for Your Money — Whimple
• 1949Kind Hearts and Coronets — The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
• 1948Oliver Twist — Fagin
• 1946Great Expectations — Herbert Pocket
• 1934Evensong — W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2022Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies — Self - (archive footage)
• 2021A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland) — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel — Self
• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2000The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Audrey Hepburn: Remembered — Self (archive footage)
• 1985David Lean: A Life in Film — Self
• The South Bank Show — Self
• 1977The Making of Star Wars — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1970The Ealing Comedies — Self
• 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self - Major H. O. Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Omnibus — Self
• 1967The Comedians in Africa — Self (uncredited)
• 1965Pasternak — Self (archive footage)
• 1958...On Seeing Film — Self
• 1958The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
• MGM Parade — self
• 1954The Stratford Adventure — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self