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Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness, acting's preeminent master of disguise, first drew attention as Fagin, providing a wonderfully Dickensian performance that totally concealed the actor within in David Lean's "Oliver Twist" (1948). His most dramatic display of versatility came playing eight roles, including a woman, in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), a film that established him beyond a shadow of a doubt as an expert at make-up and deception. Whether he was an English prime minister (Disraeli in "The Mudlark" 1950), an Arab prince ("Lawrence of Arabia" 1962), a despicable despot (Hitler in "The Last Ten Days" 1973) or an Indian professor ("A Passage to India" 1984), Guinness demonstrated a chameleon-like ability to disappear so completely within the role that filmgoers forgot they were watching an actor and saw the character instead.
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Alec Guinness
Filmography
Movies
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - 40th Anniversary | Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Interview Day | James (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 85% |
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Mute Witness | The Reaper (Character) | $962.2K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Foreign Field | Amos (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales From Hollywood | Heinrich Mann (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 55% |
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Kafka | The Chief Clerk (Character) | $57.6K | 1991 |
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Little Dorrit Part Two: Little Dorrit's Story | William Dorrit (Character) | $644.6K | 1988 |
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Little Dorrit Part One: Nobody's Fault | William Dorrit (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 83% |
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A Handful of Dust | Mr. Todd (Character) | $1.6M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Monsignor Quixote | Father Quixote (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 77% |
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A Passage to India | Godbole (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Edwin | Sir Fennimore Truscott (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Future Schlock | Unknown (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 82% |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) | $314.3M | 1983 |
| 40% |
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Lovesick | Sigmund Freud (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 38% |
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Raise the Titanic | John Bigalow (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 95% |
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Character) | $291.9M | 1980 |
| No Score Yet |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | Earl of Dorincourt (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 93% |
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | Obi-Wan Kenobi (Character) | $345 | 1977 |
| 63% |
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Murder by Death | Jamesir Bensonmum (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ceasar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 42% |
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Pope Innocent III (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 38% |
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Adolf Hitler (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 33% |
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Cromwell | King Charles I (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 74% |
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Scrooge | Jacob Marley's Ghost (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 27% |
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The Comedians | Major H. O. Jones (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Comedians In Africa | Self | - | 1967 |
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Hotel Paradiso | Benedict Boniface (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 57% |
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The Quiller Memorandum | Pol (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 82% |
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Doctor Zhivago | Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago (Character) | $87.1K | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious | Wilhelm Frick (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pasternak | Self | - | 1965 |
| 93% |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire | Marcus Aurelius (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 93% |
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Lawrence of Arabia | Prince Feisal (Character) | $6.0M | 1962 |
| 100% |
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Damn the Defiant! | Captain Crawford (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 67% |
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A Majority of One | Koichi Asano (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 95% |
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Our Man in Havana | Jim Wormold (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 70% |
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Tunes of Glory | Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Scapegoat |
John Barratt/ |
- | 1959 |
| 89% |
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The Horse's Mouth | Gulley Jimson (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet |
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All at Sea | Captain William Horatio Ambrose (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 96% |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai | Colonel Nicholson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Swan | Prince Albert (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet |
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To Paris, With Love | Col. Sir Edgar Fraser (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 100% |
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The Ladykillers | Professor Marcus (Character) | $22.2K | 1955 |
| 63% |
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The Prisoner | The Cardinal (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Malta Story | Flight Lt. Peter Ross (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 57% |
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The Detective | Father Brown (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 80% |
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The Captain's Paradise | Captain Henry St. James (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Promoter | Edward Henry `'Denry'` Machin (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 50% |
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Promoter | Unknown (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Mudlark | Benjamin Disraeli (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% |
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The Lavender Hill Mob | Henry Holland (Character) | $15.4K | 1951 |
| 100% |
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The Man in the White Suit | Sidney Stratton (Character) | $8.3K | 1951 |
| 100% |
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Last Holiday | George Bird (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 100% |
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Kind Hearts and Coronets |
The Duke / |
$35.9K | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Run for Your Money | Whimple (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 100% |
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Great Expectations | Herbert Pocket (Character) | - | 1946 |
TV
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| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen One | Amos (Character) | 1993 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | Smiley's People | George Smiley (Character) | 1982 |
| 100% | 88% | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | George Smiley (Character) | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |