Alec Guinness

Born: 2 April 1914, Marylebone, London
Died: 5 August 2000, Midhurst, W. Sussex

  • Portraits (15)

  • Great Expectations (1946) (10)

  • Oliver Twist (1948) (16)

  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (13)

  • Last Holiday (1950) (14)

  • The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (9)

  • The Man in the White Suit (1951) (8)

  • Malta Story (1953) (2)

  • The Captain's Paradise (1953) (9)

  • Father Brown (1954) (7)

  • To Paris with Love (1954) (2)

  • The Ladykillers (1955) (8)

  • The Swan (1956) (1)

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (9)

  • The Scapegoat (1958) (5)

  • The Horse's Mouth (1958) (3)

  • Tunes of Glory (1960) (8)

  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (5)

  • Doctor Zhivago (1965) (7)

  • Scrooge (1970) (1)

  • Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) (4)

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (2)

  • A Passage to India (1984) (1)

  • Stills (12)

Highlighted works

Lawrence of Arabia

An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense.

Oliver Twist

David Lean’s screen version of Charles Dickens’s masterpiece remains the finest cinematic interpretation of this much-adapted novel.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Alec Guinness plays a WWII British colonel whose perverse sense of duty leads him to help his Japanese captors build a bridge.

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak’s story of love in the Russian Revolution confirmed David Lean’s standing as the master of the sweeping historical epic.

Great Expectations

The orphan and the spinster, the marshland and the metropolis: Dickens’s vivid characters and locales receive the breath of cinematic life in David Lean’s cherished adaptation.

Filmography

1934
1946
1948
1949
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets Ethelred D'Ascoyne, Duke of Chalfont
    Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne, the banker
    Rev Lord Henry D'Ascoyne, the parson
    General Rufus D'Ascoyne
    Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne
    young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
    young Henry D'Ascoyne
    Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne
  • A Run for Your Money Whimple
1950
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