Alec Guinness
Theatre

Alec Guinness

Section Title: Theatre
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Year	Production	Role	Theatre (London, unless otherwise noted)	Notes

1934	Libel!	Junior Counsel	Playhouse Theatre	Non-Speaking Role

1934	Queer Cargo	Chinese coolie, French Pirate and English Sailor	Piccadilly Theatre

1934	Hamlet	Osric and Third Player	New Theatre

1935	Noé/Noah	Wolf	New Theatre

1935	Romeo and Juliet	Sampson and Apothecary	New Theatre

1936	The Seagull	Workman then Yakov	New Theatre

1936	Love's Labour's Lost	Boyet	The Old Vic	Start of a season with the Old Vic Company; September 1936-April 1937.

1936	As You Like It	Le Beau and William	The Old Vic

1936	The Witch of Edmonton	Old Thorney	The Old Vic

1937	Hamlet	Osric and Reynaldo	The Old Vic

1937	Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	The Old Vic

1937	Henry V	Exeter	The Old Vic

1937	Hamlet	Osric, Player Queen and Reynaldo	Elsinore Castle,Helsingør, Denmark	Put on by the Old Vic Company at Elsinore Castle

1937	Richard II	Aumerle and The Groom	Queen's Theatre	Start of a Season with John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937-May 1938.

1937	The School for Scandal	Snake	Queen's Theatre

1938	The Three Sisters	Fedotik	Queen's Theatre

1938	The Merchant of Venice	Lorenzo	Queen's Theatre

1938	The Doctor's Dilemma	Louis Dubedat	Richmond Theatre

1938	Trelawny of the Wells	Arthur Gower	The Old Vic	Start of a Season with the Old Vic Company. September to December 1938.

1938	Hamlet	Hamlet	The Old Vic

1938	The Rivals	Bob Acres	The Old Vic

1939	Hamlet	Hamlet	The Old Vic	Start of Tour of Europe and Egypt with the Old Vic Company. January to April 1939.

1939	Henry V	Chorus	The Old Vic	Tour

1939	The Rivals	Bob Acres	The Old Vic	Tour

1939	Libel!	Emile Flordan	The Old Vic	Tour

1939	Macbeth	Macbeth	Sheffield Playhouse, Sheffield

1939	The Ascent of F6	Michael Ransom	The Old Vic

1939	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo	Perth Theatre, Perth, Scotland	Part of the first Perth Scottish Theatre Festival

1939	Great Expectations	Herbert Pocket	Rudolf Steiner Hall	Version adapted by Guinness from Charles Dickens novel; Performed by The Actor's Company, a group Guinness had formed with George Devine and Marius Goring.

1940	Cousin Muriel	Richard Meilhac	Globe Theatre

1940	Saint Joan	The Dauphin	Palace Theatre

1940	The Tempest	Ferdinand	The Old Vic

1940	Thunder Rock	Charleston	Tour of England

1940	Flare Path	Fl. Lt. Graham	Henry Miller's Theatre, New York City, United States	Was temporarily released from his war service to perform in this production.

1946	The Brothers Karamazov	Mitya	Lyric Theatre	Adapted by Guinness from Fyodor Dostoevsky.

1946	The Vicious Circle	Garcin	Arts Theatre

1946	King Lear	The Fool	New Theatre	Start of a Season with the Old Vic Company at the New Theatre. September 1946 – May 1947.

1946	An Inspector Calls	Eric Birling	New Theatre

1946	Cyrano De Bergerac	De Guiche	New Theatre

1947	The Alchemist	Abel Drugger	New Theatre

1947	Richard II	Richard II	New Theatre	Start of a Season with the Old Vic Company at the New Theatre. September 1947-May 1948.

1947	Saint Joan	The Dauphin	New Theatre

1948	The Government Inspector	Khlestakov	New Theatre

1948	Coriolanus	Menenius Agrippa	New Theatre

1948	Twelfth Night	New Theatre	Director only for the Old Vic Company at the New Theatre. September 1948.

1949	The Human Touch	Dr. James Simpson	Savoy Theatre

1949	The Cocktail Party	Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1950	The Cocktail Party	Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly	Henry Miller's Theatre, New York City, USA

1951	Hamlet	Hamlet	New Theatre	This production was also directed by Guinness.

1952	Under the Sycamore Tree	The Ant Scientist	Aldwych Theatre

1953	Richard III	Richard III	Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada	Start of a Season at the Stratford Festival. July to September 1953.

1953	All's Well That Ends Well	King of France	Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada

1954	The Prisoner	The Cardinal	Globe Theatre

1954	Hotel Paradiso	Boniface	Winter Garden Theatre

1960	Ross	Aircraftman Ross / T.E. Lawrence	Theatre Royal Haymarket	Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Best Actor

1963	Exit the King	Berenger the First	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Royal Court Theatre

1964	Dylan	Dylan Thomas	Plymouth Theatre, New York City, USA	Drama League Awards-Distinguished Performance Award; Tony Awards- Best Actor

1966	Incident at Vichy	Von Berg	Phoenix Theatre

1966	Macbeth	Macbeth	Royal Court Theatre

1967	Wise Child	Jock Masters/Mrs. Artminster	Wyndham's Theatre

1968	The Cocktail Party	Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, Sussex, Wyndham's Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket	Production was also directed by Guinness.

1970	Time out of Mind	John	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey.

1971	A Voyage Round My Father	Father	Theatre Royal Haymarket

1973	Habeas Corpus	Dr. Wickstead	Lyric Theatre

1975	A Family and a Fortune	Dudley	Apollo Theatre

1976	Yahoo	Dean Swift	Queen's Theatre	Adapted by Guinness from the works of Jonathan Swift.

1977	The Old Country	Hilary	Queen's Theatre

1984	Merchant of Venice	Shylock	Chichester Festival Theatre

1988	A Walk in the Woods	Andrey Botvinnik	Comedy Theatre

Sentence(s)

Alec Guinness appeared as Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet (1939), Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and as Exeter in Henry V in 1937 and Ferdinand in The Tempest.

final_sentence: Alec Guinness appeared as Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet (1939), Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and as Exeter in Henry V in 1937 and Ferdinand in The Tempest.