Alec Guinness
Gender: Male
Born: 2nd April 1914
Died: 5th August 2000
Nationality: England, United Kingdom
TV programs: The Star Wars Holiday Special, Smiley's People, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Making of Star Wars
Movies: A Foreign Field, A Passage to India, Barnacle Bill, Great Expectations, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Lawrence of Arabia, Little Dorrit, Malta Story, Murder by Death, Oliver Twist, Scrooge, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, Tunes of Glory, Doctor Zhivago, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Man in the White Suit, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana, A Run for Your Money, Cromwell, HMS Defiant, The Captain's Paradise, Lovesick, Hitler: The Last Ten Days, The Mudlark, Last Holiday, The Horse's Mouth, The Quiller Memorandum, The Swan, The Scapegoat, Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious, A Majority of One, Edwin, The Stratford Adventure, Smiley's People, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, The Prisoner, Raise The Titanic, Mute Witness, A Handful of Dust, Father Brown, Twelfth Night, The Card, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, To Paris with Love, Hotel Paradiso, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Kafka
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. However, he was probably best known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In later years, he achieved fame with younger audiences for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas’s Star Wars films.
Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mother's maiden name was Agnes Cuff. She was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinness's birth certificate, the space for the mother's name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the infant's name (where first names only are given) says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father
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