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Acting

Alec Guinness

Career: Active from 1948 to 2012, with a break from 1997 to 2011, busiest in 1955 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 43
top three billing

Average score: 71/100

Highest rated: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 55 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Alec Guinness Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.4, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Scare
1.7, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.7, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 7
Social Commentary 7
Character Study 5
Class Conflict 5
Historical Setting 4
Melancholy 4
Nostalgic 4
Psychological Drama 4
Historical Drama 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Character-Driven 4
Romantic Drama 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

76

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

3 titles · average score 67

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

55

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

79

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)

Starring Sigmund Freud

as (archive footage)

2000s

3 titles

Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Story of Star Wars

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

When Star Wars Ruled the World

as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

1990s

6 titles · average score 70

Eskimo Day

77

as James

Mute Witness

75

as The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)

A Foreign Field

73

as Amos

Tales from Hollywood

as Heinrich Mann

Kafka

56

as The Chief Clerk

Performance

TV show · as Heinrich Mann

1980s

15 titles · average score 71

A Handful of Dust

69

as Mr. Todd

Little Dorrit

67

as William Dorrit

Monsignor Quixote

83

as Father Quixote

A Passage to India

75

as Professor Godbole

Edwin

as Sir Fennimore Truscott

Return of the Jedi

77

as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

Smiley's People

85

TV show · as George Smiley

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Heinrich Mann

Little Lord Fauntleroy

75

as Earl of Dorincourt

Raise the Titanic

41

as John Bigalow

The Empire Strikes Back

88

as Obi-Wan Kenobi

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

78

as Obi Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

1970s

12 titles · average score 63

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

92

TV show · as George Smiley

The Star Wars Holiday Special

26

as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)

Star Wars

89

as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

Murder by Death

66

as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Caesar

The Gift of Friendship

as Jocelyn Broome

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

48

as Adolf Hitler

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

57

as Papst Innozenz III.

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Father Quixote

Scrooge

69

as Jacob Marley's Ghost

Cromwell

50

as King Charles I

Twelfth Night

66

as Malvolio

1960s

13 titles · average score 69

The Comedians

41

as Major H. O. Jones

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Jocelyn Broome

The Quiller Memorandum

60

as Pol

Hotel Paradiso

58

as Benedict Boniface

Doctor Zhivago

77

as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

64

as Wilhelm Frick

The Fall of the Roman Empire

61

as Marcus Aurelius

Lawrence of Arabia

91

as Prince Feisal

H.M.S. Defiant

83

as Captain Crawford

A Majority of One

65

as Koichi Asano

Our Man in Havana

83

as Jim Wormold

Tunes of Glory

72

as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

1950s

19 titles · average score 72

The Scapegoat

63

as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

The Horse's Mouth

80

as Gulley Jimson

The Bridge on the River Kwai

87

as Col. Nicholson

Barnacle Bill

64

as Captain William Horatio Ambrose

The Swan

67

as Prince Albert

The Ladykillers

86

as Professor Marcus

Father Brown

60

as Father Brown

The Captain's Paradise

72

as Captain Henry St. James

The Card

68

as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

The Man in the White Suit

87

as Sidney Stratton

The Lavender Hill Mob

85

as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

Last Holiday

86

as George Bird

1940s

4 titles · average score 82

Kind Hearts and Coronets

91

as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

A Run for Your Money

63

as Whimple

Oliver Twist

89

as Fagin

Great Expectations

86

as Herbert Pocket

1930s

1 title

Evensong

as W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)