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Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

British actor (1914 – 2000)
April 2, 1914 (August 5, 2000)
G.-B. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Charles Sturridge with Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph. In a hotel in Normandy, two English veterans meet an American who, just like them, is looking for a French woman he met during the war.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1992. Mores drama by Howard Davies with Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack. The hypothetical life that the German writer Odon von Horvath would have led in the United States if he had not died accidentally in 1938 in Paris.
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1987. Social drama by Christine Edzard with Sarah Pickering, Alec Guinness, Amelda Brown. In 19th century England, a young girl who grew up in prison becomes the seamstress of an elderly woman.
Runtime: 180 min.
G.-B. 1986. Dramatic comedy by Rodney Bennett with Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Graham Crowden. An elderly priest and a Marxist politician living in the same small village get to know each other better while travelling to Madrid together.
Runtime: 118 min.
G.-B. 1984. Mores drama by David Lean with Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft. In India in the 1920s, a young English woman accuses a Muslim doctor, whom she has befriended, of attempted rape.
Runtime: 163 min.
G.-B. 1984. Psychological drama by Rodney Bennett with Alec Guinness, Paul Rogers, Renee Asherson. A retired judge tries to prove that a friend of his had an affair with his wife several years earlier.
Runtime: 78 min.
U.S. 1983. Satire by Marshall Brickman with Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness. The tribulations of a New York psychiatrist who becomes infatuated with one of his patients.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1980. Melodrama by Jack Gold with Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter.
U.S. 1980. Science-fiction by Irvin Kershner with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher.
Runtime: 124 min.
Parental Guidance
U.S. 1977. Science-fiction by George Lucas with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness. Having learned from a robot that a princess is being held prisoner by a tyrant, the son of a space knight sets out to rescue her.
Runtime: 121 min.
Parental Guidance
U.S. 1976. Police comedy by Robert Moore with Peter Falk, David Niven, Alec Guinness. An eccentric millionaire gathers five famous detectives in his mansion with the promise of a murder mystery to solve.
Runtime: 94 min.
G.-B. 1973. History by Ennio de Concini with Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Doris Kunstmann. Hitler
Runtime: 106 min.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

V.O.: Fratello sole, sorella luna
It. 1972. Biography by Franco Zeffirelli with Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Valentina Cortese. A few incidents in the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
Runtime: 121 min.

César et Cléôpatre

V.O.: Caesar and Cleopatra
G.-B. 1972. History by James Cellan Jones with Alec Guinness, Geneviève Bujold, Margaret Courtenay. The young queen of Egypt obtains the help of Caesar to secure her power.
G.-B. 1970. Musical by Ronald Neame with Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans. On Christmas Eve, an elderly miser has a dream that causes him to change his attitude.
Runtime: 115 min.
G.-B. 1970. History by Ken Hughes with Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley. The rise of Oliver Cromwell, a country lord who assumed power in England in the seventeenth century.
Runtime: 140 min.
G.-B. 1968. Drama by John Sichel with Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Joan Plowright. To win the heart of a noble lady, a lover uses a young woman disguised as a man.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1967. Social drama by Peter Glenville with Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor. Three men who landed in Haiti at the same time live different fortunes.
Runtime: 156 min.
G.-B. 1966. Comedy by Peter Glenville with Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley. Neglected by her husband, a woman agrees to follow a married neighbor to a hotel, without suspecting that his nephew has given an appointment to his maid.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1965. Sentimental drama by David Lean with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin. The romantic adventures of a young doctor during the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Runtime: 197 min.
U.S. 1963. History by Anthony Mann with Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren, James Mason. At the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, his son Commodus is proclaimed Caesar, at the expense of the general that the deceased chose as his successor.
Runtime: 182 min.
G.-B. 1962. History by David Lean with Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn. During World War I, a British lieutenant becomes the commander of Arab troops in the Middle East.
Runtime: 222 min.
G.-B. 1962. Drama by Lewis Gilbert with Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle. In 1797, a sadistic sailor makes life impossible for the crew of his ship.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1961. Comedy by Mervyn LeRoy with Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton.
Runtime: 153 min.
G.-B. 1960. Dramatic comedy by Ronald Neame with Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York. Conflicts between the old and the new commander of a Scottish regiment.
Runtime: 96 min.
G.-B. 1959. Satire by Carol Reed with Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives. A merchant sends fictitious spy reports to the Intelligence Service.
Runtime: 111 min.
G.-B. 1958. Drama by Robert Hamer with Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey. A murderer uses a look-alike to create an alibi.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1958. Comedy by Ronald Neame with Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Robert Coote. An eccentric painter turns a rich apartment upside down while the owners are away.
Runtime: 84 min.
G.-B. 1957. Comedy by Charles Frend with Alec Guinness, Irene Brown, Victor Maddern. The last descendant of a family of sailors is unable to overcome seasickness.
G.-B. 1957. War drama by David Lean with Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa. British prisoners of war are forced by the Japanese to build a bridge in the jungle.
Runtime: 161 min.
U.S. 1955. Dramatic comedy by Charles Vidor with Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan. A young aristocrat destined for a prince is in love with a simple tutor.
Runtime: 101 min.
G.-B. 1955. Psychological drama by Peter Glenville with Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson. In a totalitarian country, an imprisoned cardinal is subjected to a series of interrogations designed to break him psychologically.
Runtime: 94 min.
G.-B. 1955. Police comedy by Alexander Mackendrick with Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker. Gangsters use an old woman's house to organize a hold-up.
Runtime: 86 min.
G.-B. 1954. Comedy by Robert Hamer with Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray. A Scottish lord brings his twenty-year-old son to Paris.
Runtime: 80 min.
G.-B. 1954. Police comedy by Robert Hamer with Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch. The adventures of a priest detective who wants to save the soul of a hardened thief.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1953. War drama by Brian Desmond Hurst with Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow. An English air force officer participates in the defense of the island of Malta, against German attacks.
Runtime: 104 min.
G.-B. 1953. Comedy by Anthony Kimmins with Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo. The misadventures of a cargo captain who has a wife in Gibraltar and a mistress in Morocco.
Runtime: 88 min.
G.-B. 1952. Satire by Ronald Neame with Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns. The successful career of an unscrupulous upstart.
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 1951. Satire by Alexander Mackendrick with Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker. An inventor makes a wear-resistant fabric, which upsets the textile industry tycoons.
Runtime: 81 min.
G.-B. 1951. Police comedy by Charles Crichton with Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James. A Bank of England employee organizes a robbery, after twenty years of honest work.
Runtime: 81 min.
G.-B. 1950. Dramatic comedy by Henry Cass with Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh. Believing himself to be suffering from a fatal disease, a modest employee decides to enjoy life.
Runtime: 85 min.
G.-B. 1949. Satire by Robert Hamer with Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson. Disowned by his family because of his mother's mismatch, a descendant of a noble family decides to eliminate the legal heirs before him.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1949. Comedy by Charles Frend with Donald Houston, Alec Guinness, Meredith Edwards. Two Welsh miners travel to London to receive the prize they won in a competition.
G.-B. 1948. Drama by David Lean with John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness. An orphan falls into the hands of pickpockets but is later taken in by an elderly man.
Runtime: 120 min.
G.-B. 1946. Drama by David Lean with John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson. Out of gratitude, an escaped convict sends a young orphan the money he needs for his education.
Runtime: 118 min.

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