Biography: life and films
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He was born in London, England on 2nd April 1914 and died in Midhurst, West Sussex, England on 5th August 2000, aged 86.His best films as an actor include David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Charles Crichton's comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Alexander Mackendrick's comedy-thriller The Ladykillers (1955) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
Alec Guinness appeared in 49 films and scripted 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: David Lean (6 films), Robert Hamer (4), Ronald Neame (3), Peter Glenville (3), Charles Sturridge (2), Charles Frend (2) and Alexander Mackendrick (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (21 films), comedy (12), comedy-drama (10), War (8), Thriller (7), history (6), romance (5), comedy-romance (5), Fantasy (4), Biography (4), comedy-thriller (3) and crime-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Alec Guinness over all films is: 3.4
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
Evensong (1934) [a]
A Run for Your Money (1949) [a]
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) [a]
Last Holiday (1950) [a]
The Mudlark (1950) [a]
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) [a]
The Man in the White Suit (1951) [a]
The Card (1952) [a]
Malta Story (1953) [a]
The Captain's Paradise (1953) [a]
The Prisoner (1955) [a]
To Paris with Love (1955) [a]
The Swan (1956) [a]
Barnacle Bill (1957) [a]
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [a]
The Geisha Boy (1958) [a]
The Horse's Mouth (1958) [a,w]
The Scapegoat (1959) [a]
Tunes of Glory (1960) [a]
A Majority of One (1961) [a]
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) [a]
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) [a]
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965) [a]
Hotel Paradiso (1966) [a]
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) [a]
The Comedians (1967) [a]
Cromwell (1970) [a]
Fratello sole, sorella luna (1972) [a]
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) [a]
Murder by Death (1976) [a]
Star Wars (1977) [a]
Raise the Titanic (1980) [a]
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [a]
Lovesick (1983) [a]
Little Dorrit (1988) [a]
Kafka (1991) [a]
A Foreign Field (1993) [a]
Mute Witness (1994) [a]
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) [a]
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