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Alec Guinness as Macbeth Alec Guinness as Fagin crouches beside John Howard Davies as Oliver Twist in a dimly lit, rough wooden attic in the 1948 film Oliver Twist. Alec Guinness as Young Ascoyne, center, points a cane at Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini, right, while Valerie Hobson as Edith D'Ascoyne sits to the left in a Victorian shop scene from Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alec Guinness as Henry Holland stands in a workshop holding a gold bar, with stacks of gold bullion on a table beside him, in a scene from the 1951 film The Lavender Hill Mob. The Bridge on the River Kwai Alec Guinness in costume as Obi-Wan Kenobi sits beside director George Lucas on the set of Star Wars, with rocky desert scenery in the background. Little Dorrit Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus grabs Danny Green's arm in a crowded British phone booth in a scene from the 1955 film The Ladykillers.
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Alec Guinness as Macbeth
British actor Alec Guinness in the title role of Macbeth, 1966.
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Oliver Twist
Alec Guinness (left) and John Howard Davies in Oliver Twist (1948), directed...
© Eagle-Lion Films
Kind Hearts and Coronets
(From left to right) Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, and Dennis Price in Kind...
© Ealing Studios
The Lavender Hill Mob
Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), directed by Charles Crichton.
© Ealing Studios
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness (second from left) in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),...
© 1957 Columbia Pictures Corporation
Filming of Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope
George Lucas (right) and Alec Guinness during the filming of Star Wars: Episode...
© 1977 Lucasfilm with Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Little Dorrit
Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit (1988), written and directed by Christine...
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The Ladykillers
Alec Guinness and Danny Green in The Ladykillers (1955), directed by Alexander...
© Ealing Studios
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