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Alec Guinness

04/02/1914 | Marylebone, UK | Actor | Male | 08/05/2000 (86 years old)

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His is known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Alec Guinness Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Cromwell	252
2.	Lawrence of Arabia	227
3.	Star Wars	85
4.	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	37
5.	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	30
6.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	10
7.	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	7
8.	A Passage to India	5
9.	Doctor Zhivago	0
10.	Kind Hearts and Coronets	0
11.	The Fall of the Roman Empire	0

Cromwell

Movie | United Kingdom | 09/16/1970 | Drama

6.9/10

43%

511

Lawrence of Arabia

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/10/1962 | Biography | Politics

Lawrence of Arabia is the classic film from David Lean starring Peter O’Toole and based on the autobiography from Thomas Edward Lawrence who during the first World War was on assignment by the British Empire in Arabia. The film would become a cult classic and is known today as a masterpiece.

8.3/10

94%

942

Star Wars

Movie | United States | 05/25/1977 | Science Fiction | Space opera

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

8.6/10

93%

2,907

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Movie | United States | 05/17/1980 | Science Fiction | Space opera

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.

8.7/10

94%

1,305

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Movie | United States | 05/25/1983 | Science Fiction | Space opera

As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, the most loathsome outlaw in the universe, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave girl. Now a master of the Force, Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, but he cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against Darth Vader, who has sworn to win Luke over to the dark side of the Force.

8.3/10

83%

981

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Movie | United Kingdom | 10/02/1957 | War | World War II

A classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridges construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

8.1/10

96%

192

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Movie | United Kingdom | 03/03/1972 | Biography

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

7.2/10

A Passage to India

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/14/1984 | Adventure | Far East

The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers). She and Ronnys mother, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed (Victor Banerjee).

7.3/10

85%

Doctor Zhivago

Movie | Italy | 12/22/1965 | Drama | Forbidden Love

Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other yet because of their current situation cannot find a way be together.

84%

207

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Movie | United Kingdom | 01/01/1949

Louis Mazzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal.

8.1/10

100%

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Movie | United States | 03/24/1964 | History | Ancient Rome

Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.

6.7/10

92%

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