Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness was born on Apr 02, 1914 in UK. Alec Guinness's big-screen debut came with Evensong directed by Victor Saville in 1934, strarring Soldier in Concert Audience (Extra) (uncredited). Alec Guinness is known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes directed by Irvin Kershner, Anthony Daniels stars as C-3PO and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia. Alec Guinness has got 29 awards and 19 nominations so far. The most recent award Alec Guinness achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Alec Guinness plays is Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes which will be released on Sep 16, 2011.

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Les grandes espérances (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in Le pont de la rivière Kwaï (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence d'Arabie (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in Le docteur Jivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in La route des Indes (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: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and Les Gens de Smiley (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.