Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness he is considered one of the most beloved and influential actors of the 20th Century. His best known for playing Jedi Master Ben Kenobi in the Star Wars franchise.
==Career==
Alec's initial screen role was as Pip's friend "Herbert Pocket" in Great Expectations (1946), which was adapted to the screen from the novel by Charles Dickens. Next came Oliver Twist (1948) and then a series of Ealing studio comedies that included the internationally popular Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which Alec played the eight heirs to a dukedom; The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), with Alec as the mousy clerk turned bank robber; The Man in the White Suit (1951), with him as the chemist who invents a fabric that will never wear out; and The Captain's Paradise (1953), in which he played a lovable bigamist. Other famous films are The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for best actor; Lawrence of Arabia (1962), in which he played "Prince Feisal," and possibly his most famous and screen appearance: Star Wars (1977), in which he played "Ben Kenobi."
Later on, there was also Little Dorrit (1987), in which he played "William Dorrit." In 1980, he won a special Academy Award for memorable film performances. Alec also wrote dramatizations (The Brothers Karamazov and Great Expectations) and a film script of The Horse's Mouth and coauthored the play Yahoo (1976), in which he played the role of "Jonathan Swift."
==Filmography==
A Foreign Field (1993) - Amos 
Kafka (1991) - The Chief Clerk 
A Handful of Dust (1988) - Mr. Todd 
Little Dorrit (1988) - William Dorrit 
A Passage to India (1984) - Professor Godbhole 
Edwin (1984) (TV) .... Sir Fennimore Truscott 
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Obi-Wan Kenobi 
Lovesick (1983) - Sigmund Freud 
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) - Earl of Dorincourt 
Raise the Titanic (1980) - John Bigalow 
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) .... Obi-Wan Kenobi 
Star Wars (1977) - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi 
Murder by Death (1976) - Jamesir Bensonmum 
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) - Adolf Hitler 
Scrooge (1970) - Jacob Marley's Ghost 
Cromwell (1970) - King Charles I 
Twelfth Night (1969) (TV) - Malvolio 
The Comedians (1967) - Major Jones 
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) - Pol 
Hotel Paradiso (1966) - Benedict Boniface 
Doctor Zhivago(1965) - Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago 
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965) - Wilhelm Frick 
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) - Marcus Aurelius 
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Prince Feisal 
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) - Capt. Crawford 
A Majority of One (1961) - Koichi Asano 
Tunes of Glory (1960) - Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. 
The Scapegoat (1959) - John Barratt/Jacques De Gue 
Our Man in Havana (1959) - Jim Wormold 
The Horse's Mouth (1958) - Gulley Jimson 
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Col. Nicholson 
The Swan (1956) - Prince Albert 
The Ladykillers (1955) - Professor Marcus 
The Prisoner (1955) - The Cardinal 
To Paris with Love (1955) - Col. Sir Edgar Fraser 
Father Brown (1954) - Father Brown 
The Captain's Paradise (1953) - Capt. Henry St. James 
Malta Story (1953) - Flight Lt. Peter Ross 
The Card (1952) - Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin 
The Man in the White Suit (1951) - Sidney Stratton 
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - Henry Holland 
The Mudlark (1950) - Benjamin Disraeli 
Last Holiday (1950) - George Bird 
A Run for Your Money (1949) - Whimple 
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Duke Etherel & various 
Oliver Twist (1948) - Fagin 
Great Expectations (1946) - Herbert Pocket
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