Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

April 2, 1914 · 112 years old

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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…

Known For

26 titles
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

1977 · 2h 1m · Movie

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth ...

8.6
2
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

1980 · 2h 4m · Movie

After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.

8.7
3
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

1983 · 2h 11m · Movie

After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.

8.3
4
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

1962 · 3h 47m · Movie

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

8.3
5
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957 · 2h 41m · Movie

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

8.1
6
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · 3h 17m · Movie

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

7.9
7
Murder by Death

Murder by Death

1976 · 1h 35m · Movie

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

7.2
8
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949 · 1h 46m · Movie

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

8.0
9
The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

1955 · 1h 31m · Movie

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

7.6
10
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1946 · 1h 58m · Movie

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

7.8
11
A Passage to India

A Passage to India

1984 · 2h 44m · Movie

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

7.3
12
The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951 · 1h 18m · Movie

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

7.5
13
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

1948 · 1h 45m · Movie

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

7.8
14
Scrooge

Scrooge

1970 · 1h 53m · Movie

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

7.5
15
The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit

1951 · 1h 25m · Movie

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

7.2
16
Kafka

Kafka

1991 · 1h 38m · Movie

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

6.8
17
Mute Witness

Mute Witness

1995 · 1h 35m · Movie

A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.

6.7
18
Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

1960 · 1h 51m · Movie

Expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold agrees to work as an agent, and to recruit new agents, for the British Secret Service in Cuba, but he soon realizes that his deceptive ways are going to get him in trouble.

7.2
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Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic

1980 · 1h 55m · Movie

Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlant...

5.2
20
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980 · 1h 43m · Movie

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental Lord, who oversees the trust.

7.4
21
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966 · 1h 44m · Movie

In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.

6.3
22
The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth

1958 · 1h 37m · Movie

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

6.9
23
Damn the Defiant!

Damn the Defiant!

1962 · 1h 41m · Movie

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

7.1
24
The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

1959 · 1h 31m · Movie

An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.

6.8
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A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

1988 · 1h 58m · Movie

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

6.6
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973 · 1h 48m · Movie

A dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.

6.5