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Peter Guinness (born 14 August 1950) is an English film, television, and theatre actor.
Guinness was idolised by Peter Sellers—who himself became famous for inhabiting a variety of characters in a film—with Sellers's first major film role starring alongside his idol in The Ladykillers.
Peter Guinness. Actor: Zack Snyder's Justice League. British television, film and stage actor Peter Guinness was born on May 3 1950 in Whitstable, a small English seaside town famous for its oysters.
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.
Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with 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 won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in ...
Jul 2, 2021 · A 4K color restoration of the 1955 heist caper "The Ladykillers," starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, brings the classic Ealing comedy back to theaters.
Aug 12, 2000 · Sir Alec Guinness who died on August 5th was a genius of the stage and screen, but very much preferred to keep himself to himself. A profoundly unostentatious and reserved man, he undertook a...
Jun 20, 2024 · Alec Guinness (born April 2, 1914, London, England—died August 5, 2000, Midhurst, West Sussex) was a British actor famous for the variety and excellence of his stage and screen characterizations. Tall and unremarkable in appearance, he played a great range of characters throughout his long career.
Heralded by Peter Ustinov as “the outstanding poet of anonymity” for his virtuosic ability to disappear into a role, British cinema icon Alec Guinness was the ultimate example of character actor as movie star, renowned for his nuanced, fully inhabited performances and dazzling range.
Aug 7, 2000 · Sir Alec Guinness, the elegant and versatile British actor known to older audiences for films like ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' and to a whole new generation for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in...
