![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/gplGgl6XERpvYdluiwY8GlxSdpi.jpg)
Alec Guinness
Birthday: 1914-04-02 | Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UKSir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (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. His is 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
Role
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Self (archive footage)
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
as Prince Feisal
as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
as The Reaper
as The Chief Clerk
as William Dorrit
as Professor Godbole
as Sigmund Freud
as George Smiley
as John Bigalow
as Obi Wan Kenobi
as Obi-Wan Kenobi
as George Smiley
as George Smiley
as Self
as Bensonmum
as Adolf Hitler
as Papst Innozenz III.
as Jacob Marley's Ghost
as King Charles I
as Malvolio
as Malvolio
as Major H. O. Jones
as Benedict Boniface
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
as Wilhelm Frick
as Marcus Aurelius