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Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness is probably best known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars Trilogy.
Born in London, 2 April 1914, died 5 August 2000.
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excellent adaptation 6 January 2005
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Spellbinding 20 January 2006
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8 March 2004
Alec Guinness - filmography
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans (Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, and John Randolph). It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the ..read more »
 
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Kafka
(1991)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Irons
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he ..read more »
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from 68 members
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A Handful Of Dust
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: James Wilby, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Rupert Graves
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Tony and Brenda appear to have the perfect marriage - living in the fashionable England of the 30's in a Victorian country estate. But when Tony invites the dashing, yet penniless young socialite John Beaver for a weekend stay, he unknowingly ignites a series of shattering events - passion, ..read more »
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Monsignor Quixote
(1985)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson
Director: Rodney Bennett
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Alec Guinness portrays the title character in this made-for-television adaptation of Graham Greene's novel--itself a meditation on Cervantes' "Don Quixote." A provincial Spanish clergyman embarks on a trip to Madrid with a rigid Communist his only company. The unlikely pair converse to pass the ..read more »
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from 356 members
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A Passage To India
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis
Director: David Lean
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A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins
Director: Simon Langton
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John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
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from 3,589 members
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Raise The Titanic
(1980)
Starring: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby
Director: Jerry Jameson
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An action-drama dealing with the recovery of the passenger liner Titanic which sank in icy waters in 1912. Based on Clive Cussler's novel, the film sees American and Russian teams racing to be the first to salvage the famous ship and the mysterious cargo she carries.
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from 486 members
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Director: Robert Moore
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Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), ..read more »
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from 2,132 members
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the ..read more »
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from 432 members
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Hitler - The Last Ten Days
(1973)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi
Director: Ennio De Concini
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Hitler - The Last Ten Days is cinema at its most powerful. Oscar® winner Alec Guinness portrays the dictator in one of his most memorable performances. Spanning the final days from Hitler's 56th birthday to his death, this unflinching peek into the bunker shows us the downfall of a madman. Guinness ..read more »
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Cromwell
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns
Director: Ken Hughes
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Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish ..read more »
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from 1,405 member
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The Comedians
(1967)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Richard Burton
Director: Peter Glenville
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Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a ..read more »
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from 3 members
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The Quiller Memorandum
(1966)
Starring: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max Von Sydow
Director: Michael Anderson
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George Segal, Alec Guinness and Max von Sydow square off against each other in this espionage thriller, adapted by Harold Pinter, from the novel by Adam Hall. Ace spy Quiller is lured away from holiday to replace a British agent who died while essaying a most challenging assignment: infiltrating ..read more »
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from 551 members
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
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from 229 members
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
(1964)
Starring: Alec Guinness, James Mason, Stephen Boyd
Director: Anthony Mann
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic empire of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. The ..read more »
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H.M.S. Defiant
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Alec Guinness must battle a mutinous crew and Napoleon's fleet in the rousing, historical adventure H.M.S Defiant. As commander of the British warship H.M.S. Defiant, the humane Crawford (Guinness) strives to maintain order throughout the ship against the ceaseless brutality of sadistic first mate ..read more »
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from 584 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. ..read more »
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Tunes of Glory
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price
Director: Ronald Neame
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In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair - a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil ..read more »
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The Scapegoat
(1959)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Director: Robert Hamer
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue, ..read more »
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Our Man In Havana
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Mareen O'Hara
Director: Carol Reed
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Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His daughter Milly, 17, spends a lot of money, so he accepts to work for the Intelligence Service. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and to discover secret constructions...
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The Horse's Mouth
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Director: Ronald Neame
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In Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema's most indelible comic figures: the somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter in search of his artistic vision, Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines ..read more »
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Barnacle Bill
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert
Director: Charles Frend
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Captain Ambrose (Alec Guinness) is the last in a long line of distinguished seafarers. Forced to retire due to chronic seasickness, he takes charge of a dilapidated pier in a seaside resort. After he finds out the town's Mayor wants to demolish his beloved pier, Ambrose registers the pier as a ..read more »
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from 319 members
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »
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The Prisoner
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Director: Peter Glenville
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In a nameless totalitarian nation teeming with social unrest, a clergyman (Alec Guiness) is jailed on a trumped-up charge of treason. A government worker (Jack Hawkins) interrogates the inmate, eventually, goading the priest into admitting several crimes. After his confessions are made public, the ..read more »
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The Ladykillers
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers ..read more »
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Father Brown
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Gerard Oury, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Director: Robert Hamer
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Alec Guinness stars as G.K. Chesterton's legendary detective Father Brown in this splendid comedy thriller directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets).
When Father Brown hears that Flambeau (Peter Finch), an international art thief, is planning to steal a priceless cross once owned by ..read more »
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from 259 members
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The Malta Story
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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This British wartime drama focuses on the crucial battle for control of Malta. Lieutenant Peter Ross, a Royal Air Force reconnaissance photographer, gets shot down over Malta while flying to Egypt. Since he cannot get off the island, the British forces there employ his talents to help defeat the ..read more »
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from 885 members
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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Based on a true story, this powerful film is about a woman called Madeleine (Ann Todd) who embarks on an affair with a penniless Frenchman. Madeleine hails from a wealthy, respectable family so the relationship as to remain secret while her father parades eligible suitors in front of her.
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley
Director: David Lean
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by ..read more »
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »
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from 334 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »
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...to create a tight narrative. The acting is superb, particularly John Mills and Alec Guinness, and the tale of Pip's woes as he atteempts to impress Estrella remain compelli...
