Alec Guinness
Biography
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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"He was a hero. A legend. A lie." This multifaceted tagline hints at the complex and often contradictory nature of T.E. Lawrence and his impact in "Lawrence of Arabia."
David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia is a visually majestic and intellectually probing epic that chronicles the transformative journey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), a charismatic and enigmatic British ... Read more
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