Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he played eight different characters, The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, and The Ladykillers (1955). He collaborated six times with director 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 both the Academy Award for Best Actor 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, he played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy; for the original 1977 film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Academy Awards. More about Alec Guinness
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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 was one of the greatest British actors who, along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, made the transition from theatre to films after the Second World War. Guinness served in the Royal Naval Reserve during the war and commanded a landing craft during the invasion of Sicily and Elba. During the war he was granted leave to appear in the stage play Flare Path about RAF Bomber Command.In total, we tracked 644 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness & George Lucas Star Wars Signed 8x10 Photo BAS (Grad Collection)) was sold in May 2023 for $5999.00 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 (21) was October 2019 with an average selling price of $61.00 for an autographed item of Alec Guinness. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2019 with $1130.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.75 was March 2016. In average, an autographed item from Alec Guinness is worth $169.75.
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Alec Guinness, Spike Lee, David Lynch, John Woo and more: Movies also showing in (01/23/15): 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 (07/17/14): A look at the 1952 Alec Guinness obscurity 'The Card.'
What Luck: There's Always More Alec Guinness to See (06/10/14): 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" (06/05/14): Dreamer, Jedi, soldier, spy: Marking the centenary of a remarkable, Oscar-winning actor
Sir Alec Guinness slams Star Wars as "fairytale rubbish" (05/04/14): 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.