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Alec Guinness

Highest Rated:
100% The Ladykillers (1955)
Lowest Rated:
19% Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Birthday:
Apr 2, 1914
Birthplace:
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Bio:
A member of a generation of British actors that included Sir Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, Sir Alec Guinness possessed an astonishing versatility that was amply displayed over the course of his 66-year career. Dubbed "the outstanding poet of anonymity" by fellow actor Peter Ustinov,…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 19% - 100%
Number of Movies: 56
Box Office Since 2001: $35.1M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2008 19% Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi
$35.1M
1994 80% Mute Witness
  • The Reaper
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1993 A Foreign Field
  • Amos
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1991 57% Kafka
  • The Chief Clerk
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1988 83% Little Dorrit - Set
  • Actor
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1988 Little Dorrit (Nobody's Fault) (Little Dorrit's Story)
  • William Dorrit
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1988 A Handful of Dust
  • Mr. Todd
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1988 Monsignor Quixote
  • Actor
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1988 Little Dorrit - Pt. 1 - Nobody's Fault
  • Actor
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1988 Little Dorrit - Pt. 2 - Little Dorrit's Story
  • Actor
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1984 Edwin
  • Sir Fennimore Truscott
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1984 85% A Passage to India
  • Godbole
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1983 79% Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  • Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi
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1983 40% Lovesick
  • Sigmund Freud
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1980 Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • Earl of Dorincourt
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1980 97% Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  • Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi
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1977 To See Such Fun
  • Actor
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1977 94% Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
  • Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
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1976 69% Murder by Death
  • Jamessir Bensonmum the Butler
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1973 63% Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Pope Innocent III
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1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days
  • Adolf Hitler
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1970 71% Scrooge
  • Marley's Ghost
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1970 Cromwell
  • Charles I
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1967 30% The Comedians
  • Maj. Jones
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1966 Hotel Paradiso
  • Benedict Boniface
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1966 86% The Quiller Memorandum
  • Pol
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1965 Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
  • Herr Frick
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1965 85% Doctor Zhivago
  • Yevgraf
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1964 100% The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Marcus Aurelius
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1962 100% Damn the Defiant!
  • Capt. Crawford
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1962 98% Lawrence of Arabia
  • Prince Feisal
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1961 A Majority of One
  • Koichi Asano
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1960 85% Our Man in Havana
  • Jim Wormald
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1960 67% Tunes of Glory
  • Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair
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1959 Scapegoat
  • Count Jacques De Gue
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1958 93% The Horse's Mouth
  • Screenwriter
  • Gully Jimson
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1958 The Mudlark
  • Actor
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1957 Barnacle Bill, (All at Sea)
  • William Horatio Ambrose
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1957 96% The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Col. Nicholson
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1956 The Swan
  • Prince Albert
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1956 60% The Prisoner
  • The Cardinal
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1955 To Paris With Love
  • Col. Sir Edgar Fraser
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1955 100% The Ladykillers
  • Professor Marcus
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1954 Father Brown (The Detective)
  • Father Brown
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1953 The Captain's Paradise
  • Capt. Henry St. James
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1953 Malta Story
  • Capt. Ross
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1952 The Card
  • Actor
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1952 Promoter
  • E.H. Machin
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1951 100% The Lavender Hill Mob
  • Henry Holland
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1951 100% The Man in the White Suit
  • Sidney Stratton
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1951 100% Oliver Twist
  • Actor
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1950 100% Last Holiday
  • George Bird
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1949 100% Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Admiral d'Ascoyne
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1949 Run for Your Money
  • Whimple
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1947 100% Great Expectations
  • Herbert Pocket
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1934 Evensong
  • Actor
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Quotes from Alec Guinness's Characters

    1. Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?
    2. T.E. Lawrence: To England, and to other things.
    From Lawrence of Arabia. Submitted by Alexandar T (2 months ago)
    1. Darth Vader (voice): When I left you, I was, but, a learner. Now, I am the master.
    2. Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a master of evil, Darth.
    From Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Submitted by Alex H (3 months ago)
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