He was natural around London, England, allegedly as Alec Guinness de Cuffe, although what is write of his birth certificate, which reportedly lacked the father's title, is non known. His mother's maiden title was "Agnes Cuffe". She would down the road marry Alec's stepfather, a unstable soldier from either the Anglo-Irish War who was suffering from what would now become referred to as Post-traumatic stress disorder. These are rumoured that Guinness' birth father was the affluent man of affairs whom he it used to be that met.

Guinness number 1 worked writing copy for advertising before making his debut at the Old Vic Theatre in 1936 at a age of Twenty-two.

He married a creative person, dramatist, & actress Merula Salaman, the British Jew, witharound 1938, & it got a boy, Matthew Guinness, natural in 1940.

Alec Guinness served in the Royal Navy throughout World War II, serving first as a seaman around 1941 and being accredited a resulting month. He commanded the landing craft participate in the invasion of Sicily and Elba and later ferried the diapers to the Yugoslav partisans. When you took a War he appeared within Terence Rattigan's West End Play for Bomber Command, Flare Path. He returned to the Old Vic in 1946.

He was at a start primarily associated by using the Ealing comedies, and particularly for swimming eight different characters around Kind Hearts and Coronets. More films from either this cycle involved The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, and The Man in the White Suit. Around 1952, director Ronald Neame cast Guinness in his number one romantic lead role, paired Petula Clark in The Card.

Invited by his friend Tyrone Guthrie to join in the premier season of the Stratford Festival of Canada, Guinness lived for a brief period inside Stratford, Ontario. In July 13, 1953, Guinness spoke a number one lines of the number 1 play by the festival (Shakespeare's Richard III): "Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

Inside 1954, in a period of the shooting of the film Father Brown, he and his married woman converted to Roman Catholicism and became devout regular church-goers for the rest of their passes. These are non clear in case their minor-aged boy, Matthew (Xiv), was too converted at a equivalent instance.

Guinness was too the gifted spectacular & character actor. His memorable film appearances involved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and a name part within Hitler: The Last Ten Days. From either a 1970s, Guinness made regular television appearances, including a section of George Smiley in the serialisations of 2 novels by John le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and ''Smiley's People. One of his survive appearances was in the acclaimed BBC drama Eskimo Day.

His role when Obi-Wan Kenobi in the immensely successful original Star Wars'' trilogy brought him worldwide recognition to a freshly generation. Nevertheless, he was never happy sustaining existence identified by owning a a portion. He would throw out any fan mail on Star Wars forswearing reading it.

Awards and Honours
He won a Academy Award as Best Actor inside 1957 for his role within Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated once more around 1958 for his screenplay altered from either Joyce Cary's novel ''The Horse's Mouth. He likewise received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime accomplishment inside 1980.

He was appointed CBE in 1955, and was knighted in 1959. He became the Companion of Honour in 1994 at the age of Lxxx.

He too has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street.

Guinness wrote trio volumes of bestselling autobiography, beginning by using Blessings around Disguise in 1985, followed by My Title Escapes Us within 1996, and The Positively Final Appearance in 1999.

Guinness died of liver cancer on August 5, 2000 at the age of 86, at Midhurst in West Sussex, and was buried inside Petersfield, Hampshire, England. His married woman died of cancer Ii months late & is interred using her hubby of 62 years.

Filmography
Evensong (1934) Great Expectations (1946) Oliver Twist (1948) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Last Holiday (1950) The Mudlark (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) The Card (1952) The Square Mile (1953) (short subject) (narrator) Malta Story (1953) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Father Brown (1954) The Stratford Adventure (1954) (short subject) (narrator) Rowlandson's England (1955) (short subject) (narrator) To Paris with Love (1955) The Prisoner (1955) The Ladykillers (1955) The Swan (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) All at Sea (1957) The Horse's Mouth (1958) (also writer) Our Man in Havana (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) Tunes of Glory (1960) A Majority of One (1962) HMS Defiant (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Pasternak (1965) (short subject) Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Hotel Paradiso (1966) The Quiller Memorandum (1966) The Comedians in Africa (1967) (short subject) The Comedians (1967) Cromwell (1970) Scrooge (1970) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Murder by Death (1976) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raise the Titanic (1980) Lovesick (1983) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) A Passage to India (1984) "Monsignor Quixote" (1985) (TV) Little Dorrit (1988) A Handful of Dust (1988) Kafka (1991) A Foreign Field (1993) Mute Witness'' (1994)