Alec Guinness
Popularity:2.356
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1914-04-02
Place of Birth:Marylebone, London, England, UK
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Also Known As:Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Sir Alec Guinness, Сэр Алек Гиннесс, الک گینس

Star Wars (1977)
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker...

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

Kafka (1991)
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings...

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But...

Return of the Jedi (1983)
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion...

Pasternak (1965)
Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian...

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures....

Oliver Twist (1948)
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

The Ladykillers (1955)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

Murder by Death (1976)
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning...

Cromwell (1970)
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Raise the Titanic (1980)
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Our Man in Havana (1960)
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but...

The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune...

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Scrooge (1970)
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Great Expectations (1946)
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual...

Tunes of Glory (1960)
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader,...

The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...

The Card (1952)
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse...

The Swan (1956)
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant...

A Passage to India (1984)
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

Barnacle Bill (1957)
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

A Run for Your Money (1949)
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of...

A Handful of Dust (1988)
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller...

Last Holiday (1950)
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive...

Little Dorrit (1987)
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...

Malta Story (1953)
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it...

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius...

Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Mute Witness (1995)
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's...

Lovesick (1983)
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

The Ealing Comedies (1970)
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

The Prisoner (1955)
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his...

The Comedians (1967)
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

To Paris with Love (1955)
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.

Father Brown (1954)
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (2000)

The Mudlark (1950)
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...

The Scapegoat (1959)
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Hotel Paradiso (1966)
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur...

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965)
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried...

A Majority of One (1961)
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the...

Monsignor Quixote (1985)
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their...

The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia' (2003)
Straight-to-DVD documentary produced by Passport International detailing the life of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif with briefly concentrating on the...

The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness (1978)
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.

Eskimo Day (1996)
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly...

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958)
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

Twelfth Night (1970)
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...

Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

The Gift of Friendship (1974)
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

Tales from Hollywood (1992)
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...

Evensong (1934)
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their...

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993)
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful...

Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day,...

Rowlandson's England (1955)
England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel (2015)
Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved...

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George...

The Stratford Adventure (1954)
This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre....

Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011,...

The Story of Star Wars (2004)
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed...

A Foreign Field (1993)
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy....

The Comedians in Africa (1967)
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.

David Lean: A Life in Film (1985)
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

Edwin (1984)
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

The Making of Star Wars (1977)
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of...

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess (2006)
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince...

The South Bank Show (1978)
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May...

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Smiley's People (1982)
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations...

The Oscars (1953)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

Startime (1959)
Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level...

Performance (1991)
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Talking Pictures (2013)
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.

The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

Omnibus (1967)
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the...

Apostrophes (1975)
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

Great Performances (1971)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...