Sir Alec Guinness, acting's preeminent master of disguise, first drew attention as Fagin, providing a wonderfully Dickensian performance that totally concealed the actor within in David Lean's "Oliver Twist" (1948). His most dramatic display of versatility came playing eight roles, including a wom...
Alec Guinness. Actor: Star Wars. Alec Guinness was an English actor of stage and screen, his career spanning over sixty years. His best known screen works are his starring roles in several of the Ealing comedies between 1949 and 1957 (most notably as eig
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Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness in A Majority of One (1961) This film has wonderful highs and lows—dramatic scenes with heated arguments; comically charming lines; sparkling interaction between Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness. I will not reveal the ending and what became of them, as I th...
Alec was married to artist, playwright, and actress Merula Salaman, until his death, with whom he had a son, actor Matthew Guinness. Alec’s maternal grandfather was Edward Charles Cuff (the son of Edward Cuff and Mary Woods). Alec’s grandfather Edward was born in Lambeth, London, Englan...
only be glimpsed, or speculated upon, behind the several Gascoynes of “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” or the man in the white suit or the schemer of the Lavender Hill mob or the lady-killers, the real Guinness also finds a surprising degree of concealment even behind the narrow letter I....
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Alec Guinness, British actor famous for the variety and excellence of his stage and screen characterizations. Among his notable films are Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Horse’s Mouth,