Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 bi Allan Warren | |
Born | Alec Guinness de Cuffe 2 Apryle 1914 Paddington, Lunnon, Ingland |
Dee'd | 5 August 2000 Midhurst, Wast Sussex, Ingland | (aged 86)
Cause o daith | Liver cancer |
Thrift | Actor |
Years active | 1934–96 |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Merula Salaman (m. 1938–2000) |
Bairns | Matthew Guinness |
Sir Alec Guinness, CH CBE (2 Aprile 1914 – 5 August 2000) wis an Inglis actor. Efter an early career on the stage he wis featurt in several o the Ealing Comedies, includin Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played aicht different chairacters. Houiver, he wis probably best kent for his sax collaborations wi David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he wan the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), an Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). He is an aa weel kent for his portrayal o Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas’s oreeginal Star Wars trilogy. He wis ane o the three major Breetish actors, alang wi John Gielgud an Laurence Olivier, who, immediately efter the Seicont Warld War, successfully transeeetioned frae Shakespearean theatre in thair home kintra tae Hollywid blockbusters.
- 1914 births
- 2000 daiths
- 20t-century Inglis male actors
- Academy Honorary Awaird recipients
- Actors awairdit Breetish knichtheids
- Male actors frae Lunnon
- European Film Awairds winners (fowk)
- BAFTA fellaes
- Best Actor Academy Awaird winners
- Best Breetish Actor BAFTA Awaird winners
- Best Drama Actor Gowden Globe (film) winners
- Daiths frae cancer in Ingland
- Commanders o the Order o the Breetish Empire
- Converts tae Roman Catholicism frae Anglicanism
- Copywriters
- Daiths frae liver cancer
- Inglis male film actors
- Inglis memoirists
- Inglis Roman Catholics
- Inglis male stage actors
- Inglis male televeesion actors
- Evening Standard Awaird for Best Actor
- Knichts Bachelor
- Members o the Order o the Companions o Honour
- Laurence Olivier Awaird winners
- Fowk frae Paddington
- Petersfield, Hampshire
- Ryal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel o Warld War II
- Ryal Navy afficers
- Tony Awaird winners
- Volpi Cup winners
- Delia Austrick medal recipients