Alec Guinness
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.1954 |
| Birthday | 1914-04-02 |
| Place of Birth | Marylebone, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, |
1977
Star Wars
8.208/22842
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an...
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Star Wars
1965
Doctor Zhivago
7.552/1305
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship dur...
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Doctor Zhivago
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
8/3572
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turk...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8/2443
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1991
Kafka
6.422/161
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that c...
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Kafka
1983
Return of the Jedi
7.911/17283
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a m...
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Return of the Jedi
1965
Pasternak
6.667/3
Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian gover...
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Pasternak
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.393/18830
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...
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The Empire Strikes Back
1972
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7.035/142
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. H...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1948
Oliver Twist
7.6/263
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1955
The Ladykillers
7.3/572
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia...
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The Ladykillers
1976
Murder by Death
7.145/930
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning r...
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Murder by Death
1970
Cromwell
6.602/108
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...
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Cromwell
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.6/627
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1980
Raise the Titanic
5.395/119
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
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Raise the Titanic
1960
Our Man in Havana
6.709/127
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t ve...
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Our Man in Havana
1951
The Man in the White Suit
6.9/214
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell...
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The Man in the White Suit
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.2/295
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
1970
Scrooge
6.799/169
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
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Scrooge
1946
Great Expectations
7.291/387
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman....
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Great Expectations
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
6.516/61
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...
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H.M.S. Defiant
1960
Tunes of Glory
7.037/68
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit...
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Tunes of Glory
1953
The Captain's Paradise
5.7/26
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...
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The Captain's Paradise
1952
The Card
7/42
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so...
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The Card
1956
The Swan
6.9/39
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant co...
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The Swan
1958
The Horse's Mouth
6.77/50
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse...
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The Horse's Mouth
1984
A Passage to India
6.8/346
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city...
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A Passage to India
1957
Barnacle Bill
6.563/24
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Barnacle Bill
1949
A Run for Your Money
6.2/19
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort...
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A Run for Your Money
1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.328/322
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of D...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1988
A Handful of Dust
6.107/42
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...
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A Handful of Dust
1966
The Quiller Memorandum
5.9/89
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller i...
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The Quiller Memorandum
1950
Last Holiday
7.1/57
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside...
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Last Holiday
1987
Little Dorrit
6.4/14
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in...
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Little Dorrit
1953
Malta Story
6.3/24
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese gi...
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Malta Story
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.202/42
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
6.453/236
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius h...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5/1
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
1995
Mute Witness
6.449/167
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she th...
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Mute Witness
1983
Lovesick
5.867/15
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Lovesick
1970
The Ealing Comedies
0/0
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
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The Ealing Comedies
1955
The Prisoner
7.2/24
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his...
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The Prisoner
1967
The Comedians
6.117/47
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Comedians
1955
To Paris with Love
5.556/9
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
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To Paris with Love
1954
Father Brown
6.5/31
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Father Brown
2000
The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
6.75/4
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The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
1950
The Mudlark
6.636/11
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
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The Mudlark
1959
The Scapegoat
6.829/41
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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The Scapegoat
1966
Hotel Paradiso
6/14
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris. There is M...
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Hotel Paradiso
1965
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
6.9/8
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended.
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Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1961
A Majority of One
6.1/17
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the les...
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A Majority of One
1985
Monsignor Quixote
8.8/2
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r...
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Monsignor Quixote
1978
The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
0/0
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.
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The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
1996
Eskimo Day
8/3
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they...
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Eskimo Day
1958
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1970
Twelfth Night
6.5/5
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John D...
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Twelfth Night
1992
Tales from Hollywood
3/3
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri...
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Tales from Hollywood
1974
The Gift of Friendship
10/1
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
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The Gift of Friendship
1976
Caesar and Cleopatra
8/2
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1934
Evensong
6/2
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
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Evensong
1993
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
7.6/5
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innoce...
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
7/3
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
2004
When Star Wars Ruled the World
8.8/10
A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.
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When Star Wars Ruled the World
1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.4/522
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, the...
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
1955
Rowlandson's England
8/1
England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.
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Rowlandson's England
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.241/20892
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
6.3/13
Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout bot...
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Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
1980
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
8.231/13
Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ vi...
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SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1954
The Stratford Adventure
6.2/5
This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre....
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The Stratford Adventure
2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
0/0
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the...
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Starring Sigmund Freud
2004
The Story of Star Wars
7.2/22
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i...
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The Story of Star Wars
1993
A Foreign Field
7/2
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They...
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A Foreign Field
1967
The Comedians in Africa
5.8/5
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.
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The Comedians in Africa
1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
6/1
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
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David Lean: A Life in Film
1984
Edwin
8/1
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelit...
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Edwin
1977
The Making of Star Wars
7.061/41
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted...
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The Making of Star Wars
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.248/11128
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2006
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
7.2/6
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rain...
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
1967
Lionpower from MGM
6.333/3
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...
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Lionpower from MGM
2021
A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
0/0
The dog in dreamland? Or at least one of us is…
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A Pee, a Poop, a Plate: Paradise (Heidi in Dreamland)
2022
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2/1
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward.
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
1958
...On Seeing Film
0/0
A co-production of Columbia Pictures and USC’s Department of Cinema, this 1958 educational short hosted by William Holden explores the art of adaptati...
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