Alec Guinness

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, WRITER

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Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Szép remények (1946), Fagin in Twist Olivér (1948), Col. Nicholson in Híd a Kwai folyón (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Arábiai Lawrence (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doktor Zsivágó (1965), and Professor Godbole in Út Indiába (1984).Guinness is really most remembered for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy for which he receive a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.In 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. In the 1970s, Guinness made regular television appearances in Britain, including the role of George Smiley in the serialisations of two novels by John le Carré: Az áruló (1979) and Smiley népe (1982). In 1980 he received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement.Guinness was also one of three British actors, along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, who made the transition from Shakespearean theatre in England to Hollywood blockbusters immediately after the Second World War.Guinness died on 5 August 2000, from liver cancer, at Midhurst in West Sussex. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Alec Guinness’s flixes, followed by DIRECTV compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Alec Guinness on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 2005. See the full graphs of the number of Alec Guinness movies released per year from 1970 till 2005.

Top Genres

Alec Guinness works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 31% of Alec Guinness movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Alec Guinness worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Alec Guinness has worked on is 7.3.

7.3 / 10

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Action,Adventure,Fantasy
Star Wars (1977)

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

8.6/10121 min

Available in 15 platform(s).

Drama,Family,Fantasy
Scrooge (1970)

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

7.5/10113 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Crime,Mystery
Murder by Death (1976)

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

7.3/1095 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Drama,Romance
Little Dorrit (1987)

Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.

7.2/10357 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Cromwell (1970)

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

6.9/10139 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.

6.5/10106 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Comedy,Fantasy,Romance
Lovesick (1983)

A psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.

5.2/1095 min

Available in 8 platform(s).