Alec Guinness - Filmography

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1934 Evensong Extra (World War I soldier in audience) uncredited
1946 Great Expectations Herbert Pocket
1948 Oliver Twist Fagin
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Duke, TheThe Duke, The Banker, The Parson,
  • The General, The Admiral,
  • Young D'Ascoyne, Young Henry,
  • Lady Agatha
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
1949 Run for Your Money, AA Run for Your Money Whimple
1950 Last Holiday George Bird
1950 Mudlark, TheThe Mudlark Benjamin Disraeli
1951 Lavender Hill Mob, TheThe Lavender Hill Mob Henry Holland
  • Silver Ribbon Award for Best Actor—Foreign Film (Migliore Attore Straniero)
  • Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1951 Man in the White Suit, TheThe Man in the White Suit Sidney Stratton
1952 Card, TheThe Card Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin released in the United States as The Promoter
1953 Square Mile, TheThe Square Mile narrator short subject
1953 Malta Story Flight Lt. Peter Ross
1953 Captain's Paradise, TheThe Captain's Paradise Capt. Henry St. James
1954 Father Brown Father Brown
1954 Stratford Adventure, TheThe Stratford Adventure Himself short subject
1955 Rowlandson's England narrator short subject
1955 To Paris with Love Col. Sir Edgar Fraser
1955 Prisoner, TheThe Prisoner Cardinal, TheThe Cardinal Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1955 Ladykillers, TheThe Ladykillers Professor Marcus
1956 Swan, TheThe Swan Prince Albert
1957 Bridge on the River Kwai, TheThe Bridge on the River Kwai Col. Nicholson
  • Academy Award for Best Actor
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
  • National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
  • Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
  • Nominated—Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
1957 Barnacle Bill Captain William Horatio Ambrose released in the United States as All at Sea
1958 Horse's Mouth, TheThe Horse's Mouth Gulley Jimson
  • Also writer
  • Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor
  • Nominated—Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
  • Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Nominated—Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
1959 Our Man in Havana Jim Wormold
1959 Scapegoat, TheThe Scapegoat John Barratt/Jacques De Gue
1960 Tunes of Glory Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1962 Majority of One, AA Majority of One Koichi Asano
1962 H.M.S. Defiant Captain Crawford
1962 Lawrence of Arabia Prince Faisal
1964 Fall of the Roman Empire, TheThe Fall of the Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius
1965 Pasternak Himself short subject
1965 Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious Wilhelm Frick
1965 Doctor Zhivago Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
1966 Hotel Paradiso Benedict Boniface
1966 Quiller Memorandum, TheThe Quiller Memorandum Pol
1967 Comedians in Africa, TheThe Comedians in Africa Himself uncredited, short subject
1967 Comedians, TheThe Comedians Major H.O. Jones Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
1970 Cromwell King Charles I
1970 Scrooge Jacob Marley's ghost
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon Pope Innocent III
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days Adolf Hitler
1976 Murder by Death Jamesir Bensonmum
1977 Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor
  • Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy George Smiley British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
1980 The Empire Strikes Back Obi-Wan Kenobi
1980 Raise the Titanic John Bigalow
1980 Little Lord Fauntleroy Earl of Dorincourt
1982 Smiley's People George Smiley
  • British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
  • Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1983 Lovesick Sigmund Freud
1983 Return of the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi
1984 Passage to India, AA Passage to India Professor Godbole
1985 Monsignor Quixote Monsignor Quixote
1988 Little Dorrit William Dorrit
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1988 Handful of Dust, AA Handful of Dust Mr. Todd
1991 Kafka chief clerk, TheThe chief clerk
1993 Foreign Field, AA Foreign Field Amos
1994 Mute Witness Reaper, TheThe Reaper
1996 Eskimo Day James

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