Alec Guinness Discussion

Alec Guinness: 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 bullion robber...

Known For: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi), The Bridge on the River Kwai (Colonel Nicholson), Kind Hearts and Coronets (The D'Ascoyne Family: The DukeThe BankerThe ParsonThe GeneralThe AdmiralYoung AscoyneYoung HenryLady Agatha), The Horse's Mouth (Gulley Jimson)