Alec Guinness

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1914 age 0

   Born

2. 1946 age 32

   CreditGreat Expectations

3. 1957 age 43

   CreditThe Bridge on the River Kwai

4. 1962 age 48

   CreditLawrence of Arabia

5. 1964 age 50

   CreditThe Fall of the Roman Empire

6. 1965 age 51

   CreditDoctor Zhivago

7. 1976 age 62

   CreditMurder by Death

8. 1977 age 63

   CreditStar Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

9. 1980 age 66

   CreditStar Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

10. 1983 age 69

    CreditStar Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi

11. 1984 age 70

    CreditA Passage to India

12. 2000 age 86

    Died

13. 2015 age 86

    CreditStar Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

• DLDavid Lean5 titles
• JWJohn Williams4 titles
• HFHarrison Ford4 titles
• CFCarrie Fisher4 titles
• MHMark Hamill4 titles
• PMPeter Mayhew4 titles
• ADAnthony Daniels4 titles
• KBKenny Baker4 titles
• GLGeorge Lucas3 titles
• DPDavid Prowse3 titles

• Much water has flown under Tiber's bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and generally better than the Tridentine; but the banality and vulgarity of the translations which have ousted the sonorous Latin and little Greek are of a super-market quality which is quite unacceptable. Hand-shaking and embarrassed smiles or smirks have replaced the older courtesies; kneeling is out, queueing is in, and the general tone is rather like a BBC radio broadcast for tiny tots (so however will they learn to put away childish things?). The clouds of incense have dispersed, together with many hidebound, blinkered and repressive attitudes, and we are left with social messages of an almost over-whelming progressiveness. The Church has proved she is not moribund. "All shall be well," I feel, "and all manner of things shall be well," so long as the God who is worsh

  Alec Guinness, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

  Alec Guinness, CC BY-SA 4.0

• ...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.

  Alec Guinness, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Cause of death

liver cancer

Height

176 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1934–1996

Genres

Shakespearean comedy