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Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness
  • First Movie - Evensong 1934
  • Last Movie - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
  • Total Movies - 54
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - £123,325,310
    • US: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - $936,662,225
    • World: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - $2,069,521,700
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £234.6 Million
    • US - $2.6 Billion
    • Global - $4.9 Billion
  • Highest Rated Movie - Little Dorrit (1988) - 100%
  • Lowest rated movie - () - 0%

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Year

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

(Alec Guinness plays Obi Wan Kenobi (voice))

Director(s):
J.J. Abrams

Starring:
Carrie Fisher • Mark Hamill • Adam Driver • Daisy Ridley • John Boyega
2019

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

(Alec Guinness plays Obi-Wan Kenobi (uncredited))

Director(s):
J.J. Abrams

Starring:
Harrison Ford • Mark Hamill • Carrie Fisher • Adam Driver • Daisy Ridley
2015

Eskimo Day

(Alec Guinness plays James)

Director(s):
Piers Haggard

Starring:
Maureen Lipman • David Ross • Benedict Sandiford • Tom Wilkinson • Anna Carteret

1996

Mute Witness

(Alec Guinness plays The Reaper)

Director(s):
Anthony Waller

Starring:
Marina Zudina • Fay Ripley • Evan Richards • Oleg Yankovskiy • Igor Volkov

1995

Kafka

Director(s):
Steven Soderbergh

Starring:
Jeremy Irons • Theresa Russell • Joel Grey • Ian Holm • Alec Guinness

1991

A Handful of Dust

Director(s):
Charles Sturridge

Starring:
James Wilby • Kristin Scott Thomas • Richard Beale • Jackson Kyle • Norman Lumsden

1988

Little Dorrit

Director(s):
Christine Edzard

Starring:
Derek Jacobi • Joan Greenwood • Max Wall • Patricia Hayes • Luke Duckett
1988

A Passage to India

(Alec Guinness plays Godbole)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
Peggy Ashcroft • Judy Davis • James Fox • Alec Guinness • Nigel Havers

1984

Edwin

(Alec Guinness plays Sir Fennimore Truscott)

Director(s):
Rodney Bennett

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Renée Asherson • Paul Rogers

1984

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

(Alec Guinness plays Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi)

Director(s):
Richard Marquand

Starring:
Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Billy Dee Williams • Anthony Daniels
1983

Lovesick

Director(s):
Marshall Brickman

Starring:
Dudley Moore • Elizabeth McGovern • Alec Guinness • Christine Baranski • Gene Saks

1983

Raise the Titanic

(Alec Guinness plays John Bigalow)

Director(s):
Jerry Jameson

Starring:
Jason Robards • Richard Jordan • David Selby • Anne Archer • Alec Guinness

1980

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

(Alec Guinness plays Obi Wan Kenobi)

Director(s):
Irvin Kershner

Starring:
Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Billy Dee Williams • Anthony Daniels
1980

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Director(s):
Jack Gold

Starring:
Rick Schroder • Alec Guinness • Eric Porter • Colin Blakely • Connie Booth

1980

Star Wars Holiday Special

(Alec Guinness plays Ben)

Director(s):
Steve Binder • David Acomba

Starring:
Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Anthony Daniels • Peter Mayhew

1978

Star Wars

(Alec Guinness plays Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi)

Director(s):
George Lucas

Starring:
Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Peter Cushing • Alec Guinness
1977

Caesar and Cleopatra

(Alec Guinness plays Julius Caesar)

Director(s):
James Cellan Jones

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Genevieve Bujold • Margaret Courtenay • Iain Cuthbertson • Noel Willman

1976

Murder By Death

Director(s):
Robert Moore

Starring:
Eileen Brennan • Truman Capote • James Coco • Peter Falk • Alec Guinness

1976

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

(Alec Guinness plays Adolf Hitler)

Director(s):
Ennio De Concini

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Simon Ward • Adolfo Celi • Diane Cilento • Gabriele Ferzetti

1973

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

(Alec Guinness plays Pope Innocent III)

Director(s):
Franco Zeffirelli

Starring:
Graham Faulkner • Judi Bowker • Leigh Lawson • Kenneth Cranham • Lee Montague

1972

Scrooge

(Alec Guinness plays Jacob Marley's Ghost)

Director(s):
Ronald Neame

Starring:
Albert Finney • Edith Evans • Kenneth More • Laurence Naismith • Michael Medwin

1970

Cromwell

(Alec Guinness plays King Charles 'Stuart' I)

Director(s):
Ken Hughes

Starring:
Richard Harris • Alec Guinness • Robert Morley • Dorothy Tutin • Frank Finlay

1970

The Comedians

(Alec Guinness plays Major H. O. Jones)

Director(s):
Peter Glenville

Starring:
Richard Burton • Elizabeth Taylor • Alec Guinness • Peter Ustinov • Paul Ford

1967

Hotel Paradiso

(Alec Guinness plays Benedict Boniface)

Director(s):
Peter Glenville

Starring:
Gina Lollobrigida • Alec Guinness • Robert Morley • Peggy Mount • Duggie Byng

1966

The Quiller Memorandum

(Alec Guinness plays Pol)

Director(s):
Michael Anderson

Starring:
George Segal • Alec Guinness • Max von Sydow • Senta Berger • George Sanders

1966

Doctor Zhivago

(Alec Guinness plays Yevgraf)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
Omar Sharif • Julie Christie • Geraldine Chaplin • Rod Steiger • Alec Guinness

1965

Situation Hopeless - But Not Serious

(Alec Guinness plays Wilhelm Frick)

Director(s):
Gottfried Reinhardt

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Mike Connors • Robert Redford • Anita Hofer • Mady Rahl

1965

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Director(s):
Anthony Mann

Starring:
Sophia Loren • Stephen Boyd • Alec Guinness • James Mason • Christopher Plummer

1964

Lawrence of Arabia

(Alec Guinness plays Prince Faisal)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
Peter O'Toole • Alec Guinness • Anthony Quinn • Jack Hawkins • Omar Sharif

1962

H.M.S. Defiant

(Alec Guinness plays Captain Crawford)

Director(s):
Lewis Gilbert

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Dirk Bogarde • Maurice Denham • Nigel Stock • Richard Carpenter

1962

A Majority of One

(Alec Guinness plays Koichi Asano)

Director(s):
Mervyn LeRoy

Starring:
Rosalind Russell • Alec Guinness • Ray Danton • Madlyn Rhue • Mae Questel

1961

Tunes of Glory

Director(s):
Ronald Neame

Starring:
Alec Guinness • John Mills • Dennis Price • Kay Walsh • John Fraser

1960

Our Man In Havana

(Alec Guinness plays Jim Wormold)

Director(s):
Carol Reed

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Burl Ives • Maureen O'Hara • Ernie Kovacs • Noel Coward

1959

The Scapegoat

Director(s):
Robert Hamer

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Bette Davis • Nicole Maurey • Irene Worth • Pamela Brown

1959

The Horses Mouth

(Alec Guinness plays Gulley Jimson)

Director(s):
Ronald Neame

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Kay Walsh • Renée Houston • Mike Morgan • Robert Coote

1958

Barnacle Bill

(Alec Guinness plays Capt. William Horatio Ambrose)

Director(s):
Charles Frend

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Harry Locke • Frederick Piper • Fred Griffiths • Gerald Case

1957

The Bridge On the River Kwai

(Alec Guinness plays Colonel Nicholson)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
William Holden • Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Sessue Hayakawa • James Donald

1957

The Swan

(Alec Guinness plays Prince Albert)

Director(s):
Charles Vidor

Starring:
Grace Kelly • Alec Guinness • Louis Jourdan • Agnes Moorehead • Jessie Royce Landis

1956

The Ladykillers

(Alec Guinness plays Professor Marcus)

Director(s):
Alexander Mackendrick

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Cecil Parker • Herbert Lom • Peter Sellers • Danny Green

1955

The Prisoner

(Alec Guinness plays The Cardinal)

Director(s):
Peter Glenville

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Wilfrid Lawson • Kenneth Griffith • Jeanette Sterke

1955

To Paris With Love

Director(s):
Robert Hamer

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Odile Versois • Vernon Gray • Elina Labourdette • Jacques François

1955

Father Brown

(Alec Guinness plays Father Brown)

Director(s):
Robert Hamer

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Joan Greenwood • Peter Finch • Cecil Parker • Bernard Lee

1954

Malta Story

(Alec Guinness plays Flight Lt. Peter Ross)

Director(s):
Brian Desmond Hurst

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Anthony Steel • Muriel Pavlow • Renée Asherson

1953

The Captains Paradise

(Alec Guinness plays Captain Henry St. James)

Director(s):
Anthony Kimmins

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Peter Bull • Charles Goldner • Miles Malleson • Claudia Grey

1953

The Card

(Alec Guinness plays Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin)

Director(s):
Ronald Neame

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Glynis Johns • Valerie Hobson • Petula Clark • Edward Chapman

1952

The Man In the White Suit

(Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton)

Director(s):
Alexander Mackendrick

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Joan Greenwood • Cecil Parker • Michael Gough • Ernest Thesiger

1951

The Lavender Hill Mob

(Alec Guinness plays Holland)

Director(s):
Charles Crichton

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Stanley Holloway • Sidney James • Alfie Bass • Marjorie Fielding

1951

The Mudlark

(Alec Guinness plays Benjamin Disraeli)

Director(s):
Jean Negulesco

Starring:
Irene Dunne • Alec Guinness • Andrew Ray • Beatrice Campbell • Finlay Currie

1950

Last Holiday

(Alec Guinness plays George Bird)

Director(s):
Henry Cass

Starring:
Alec Guinness • Beatrice Campbell • Kay Walsh • Gregoire Aslan • Jean Colin

1950

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Director(s):
Robert Hamer

Starring:
Dennis Price • Valerie Hobson • Joan Greenwood • Alec Guinness • Audrey Fildes

1949

A Run For Your Money

(Alec Guinness plays Whimple)

Director(s):
Charles Frend

Starring:
Donald Houston • Meredith Edwards • Moira Lister • Alec Guinness • Hugh Griffith

1949

Oliver Twist

(Alec Guinness plays Fagin)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
Robert Newton • Alec Guinness • Kay Walsh • Francis L. Sullivan • Henry Stephenson

1948

Great Expectations

(Alec Guinness plays Herbert Pocket)

Director(s):
David Lean

Starring:
John Mills • Tony Wager • Valerie Hobson • Jean Simmons • Bernard Miles

1946

Evensong

(Alec Guinness plays Soldier in Concert Audience (Extra))

Director(s):
Victor Saville

Starring:
Evelyn Laye • Fritz Kortner • Emlyn Williams • Carl Esmond • Alice Delysia

1934