Alec Guinness - biography

“An actor is totally vulnerable.  His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance.  In short, his ego.”

“Essentially, I’m a small-part actor who’s been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.”

“I don’t know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.”

“I think I gave my best performance, perhaps, during the war - pretending to be an officer and gentleman.”

“[On Star Wars] I don’t know what my part is about.  Take my name: Obi Wan Kenobi.  I haven’t a clue what it’s meant to mean.”

“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”

“I’m a great gossip.  Don’t pay any attention to what I’m saying.”

“Who is more foolish?  The fool or the fool that follows it?”

Alec Guinness has appeared in the following films:
Evensong (1934)
Great Expectations (1946)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
A Run for Your Money (1949)
Last Holiday (1950)
The Mudlark (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Card (1952)
The Square Mile (1953)
The Captain’s Paradise (1953)
Malta Story (1953)
Father Brown (1954)
To Paris with Love (1955)
The Prisoner (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Swan (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
A Majority of One (1961)
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
The Comedians (1967)
Cromwell (1970)
Scrooge (1970)
Fratello sole, sorella luna (1972)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Murder by Death (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Lovesick (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
A Passage to India (1984)
Little Dorrit (1988)
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Kafka (1991)
A Foreign Field (1993)
Mute Witness (1994)