Alec Guinness – Biography of Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness was born in 1914, in Marylebone, London (USA)

His first contact was working in advertising, meanwhile he studiedor on the Fay Compton Studio for Dramatic Art.

His first performance was in the year 1834 in theater.

After 2 years (1936), he performed some works in the London Old Vic. Until in 1941 he joined the Royal Navy as a sailor.

The Second World War prevented him from continuing after the performance.

As soon as this war ended in 1945, he resumed his career and in 1946, he achieved a role in the film “Great Expectations”.

He then made a variety of films and roles that helped him demonstrate his acting skills in different performances.

This is why in the movie “Kind Hearts and Coronets” plays eight different characters including a woman.

Until in 1957 his Oscar award for “Best Actor” and a Golden Globe for his work in “The Bridge on the River Kwai”.

Many years later, in 1980, the Academy awarded him an honorary award for his contribution to the art of cinema, not forgetting that in 1977 he was nominated as a supporting actor for his role in “Star Wars” Y “Little Dorrit” in 1988.

An interesting thing about Alec Guinness’s life is that he detested the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars but he gets 1% of the saga’s income and this is what still gives him important income today, much more than the rights to all the films he has made together.
The British court for his merits as an actor invested him Royal Knight in 1959.

Sir Alec Guinness dies at 86.

Filmography:

  • “Mute Witness” (1994)
  • “A Foreign Field” (1993)
  • “Kafka” (1991)
  • “Little Dorrit” (1988)
  • “A Handful of Dust” (1988)
  • “A Passage to India” (1984)
  • “Return of the Jedi” (1983)
  • “Lovesick” (1983)
  • “Raise the Titanic” (1980)
  • “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980)
  • “Star Wars” (1977)
  • “A corpse to desserts” (1976)
  • “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” (1973)
  • “Fratello sole, sorella luna” (1972)
  • “Scrooge” (1970)
  • “Cromwell” (1970)
  • “The Comedians” (1967)
  • “The Quiller Memorandum” (1966)
  • “Hotel Paradiso” (1966)
  • “Situation Hopeless … But Not Serious” (1965)
  • “Doctor Zhivago” (1965)
  • “The fall of the Roman Empire” (1964)
  • “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)
  • “HMS Defiant” (1962)
  • “A Majority of One” (1961)
  • “Tunes of Glory” (1960)
  • “Our man in Havana” (1959)
  • “The Scapegoat” (1959)
  • “The Horse’s Mouth” (1958)
  • “Barnacle Bill” (1957)
  • “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)
  • “The Cisne” (1956)
  • “Rowlandson’s England” (1955)
  • “The quintet of death” (1955)
  • “The Prisoner” (1955)
  • “To Paris with Love” (1955)
  • “The Stratford Adventure” (1954)
  • “Father Brown” (1954)
  • “The Malta Story” (1953)
  • “The Square Mile” (1953) (voice)
  • “The Captain’s Paradise” (1953)
  • “The Card” (1952)
  • “The Man in the White Suit” (1951)
  • “The Lavender Hill Mob” (1951)
  • “The Mudlark” (1950)
  • “Last Holiday” (1950)
  • “A Run for Your Money” (1949)
  • “Kind Hearts and Coronets” (1949)
  • “Oliver Twist” (1948)
  • “Great Expectations” (1946)