Alec Guinness Autographs
Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. In the BFI listing of the 100 most important British films of the 20th century, he was the single most noted actor, represented across nine films — six in starring roles and three in supporting roles — including five directed by David Lean and four from Ealing Studios. He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Tony Award. In 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980 and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 1989.
Guinness began his stage career in 1934. Two years later, at the age of 22, he played the role of Osric in Hamlet in the West End and joined the Old Vic. He continued to play Shakespearean roles throughout his career. He served in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War and commanded a landing craft during the invasion of Sicily and Elba. Along with Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, he was one of the great British theatre actors who made the transition to films after the war, making his name in six Ealing comedies, starting in 1949 with both A Run for Your Money and Kind Hearts and Coronets (in which he played eight different characters). He went on to lead roles in 1951 with The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), then in 1955 with The Ladykillers, and culminating in 1957 with Barnacle Bill.
Guinness collaborated six times with director David Lean: as 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 both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor; Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962); General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (1965); and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In 1970, Guinness played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy, which brought him further recognition; for his performance in the original 1977 film, he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the Academy Award and Golden Globe. Guinness's later life was closely associated with his definitive depiction of the leading role of George Smiley in the BBC television series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carré.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness/Mark Hamill "Help Me OBI-WAN" Star Wars Cast Signed Photo Auto PSA) was sold in January 2026 for $10,015.00 while the cheapest item (Signed First Edition My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness 1996 Hard Cover Obi Wan) found a new owner for $0.99 in September 2020. The month with the most items sold (33) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $407.50 for an autographed item of Alec Guinness. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2019 with $1,130.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.75 was March 2016. In average, an autographed item from Alec Guinness is worth $249.00.
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Alec Guinness, Spike Lee, David Lynch, John Woo and more: Movies also showing in (01/23/2015): The Northwest Film Center offers a retrospective of classic British comedies, while other revivals star Harrison Ford, Chow Yun-Fat, and Charlie Brown. 
The lighter side of Alec Guinness (07/17/2014): A look at the 1952 Alec Guinness obscurity 'The Card.' What Luck: There's Always More Alec Guinness to See (06/10/2014): Alec Guinness looks like no one , which means he can look like anyone. "Facially," the great critic and journalist Kenneth Tynan wrote, "he is akin to what John Locke imagined the mind of a newborn child to be — an unmarked blank, on which circumstances leave their casual trace." Few... "Alec Guinness at 100" (06/05/2014): Dreamer, Jedi, soldier, spy: Marking the centenary of a remarkable, Oscar-winning actor Sir Alec Guinness slams Star Wars as "fairytale rubbish" (05/04/2014): London, May 4 (ANI): Sir Alec Guinness has confessed that he loathed the film classic 'Star Wars' and criticized the film as "fairytale rubbish" with "lamentable dialogue" and a cast he'd never heard of.
