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Alec Guinness
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Alec Guinness's Biography

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. Guinness later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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  • News Source: Times Online | about 4 hours ago
    Certainly, many actors will tell you so, citing occasions when spectators have chattered, answered their phones, loudly canoodled in the stalls or even had sex in one of the stage boxes...Earlier this year Ken Stott was playing the lead in Arthur
  • News Source: The News Tribune | 8 days ago
    Learn about and identify the many native plants of the Adriana Hess Wetland Park, noon-1 p.m. Nov. 16, Tahoma Audubon Society, 2917 Morrison Road, University Place; Free; www.TahomaAudubon.org. Nibble on free popcorn and watch movie favorites on the
  • News Source: The Guardian | 11 days ago
    This week, I spoke at the Film Nite discussion group in London on the 60th anniversary of Robert Hamer's Ealing classic Kind Hearts and Coronets . It was a chance to revisit that old chestnut: is it true that you can only make great films from

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  • Blog Source: elitestv.com | 7 days ago
    5. The Bridge on the River Kwai : A classic film from the director of Lawrence of Arabia, which stars Alec Guinness as a strong willed army Colonel. Written by JC Simpson http://www.moviefilmreview.com/author/JC Simpson.
  • Blog Source: sualumnicebu.com | 7 days ago
    Guinness is adorable as sailor who couldn't bear the sight of water although purchases rundown home on a wharf, turning it into an entertainment palace. Original title was Barnacle Bill. Cast includes Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, ...
  • Blog Source: cubaninlondon.blogspot.com | 7 days ago
    In 'Bridge On the River Kwai' Alec Guinness, playing Colonel Nicholson, arrives in the PoW's camp whistling the famous melody 'Colonel Bogey March', composed by the American Mitchel William Miller. I still marvel at the choreographic ...

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