Alec Guinness
Alec GuinnessBlessings in Disguise

Blessings in Disguise

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Blessings in Disguise

About Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). He is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor..

Books

Alec Guinness-commonplace book

Commonplace book

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-A Positively Final Appearance

A Positively Final Appearance

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-positively final appearance

Positively final appearance

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-A Positively Final Appearance

A Positively Final Appearance

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-My name escapes me

My name escapes me

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-My name escapes me

My name escapes me

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Blessings in Disguise (Penguin Audiobooks)

Blessings in Disguise (Penguin Audiobooks)

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-My Name Escapes Me

My Name Escapes Me

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Me moires

Me moires

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise.

Blessings in disguise.

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

Alec Guinness

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Reviews

As a fan of Alec Guinness, it gave me additional insight to this great actor's life. It made me want to learn more and more about him, read books on him and see his movies again A great actor.
I liked the structure of this - either a person (Sybil Thorndike, Edith Evans) or a theme/period in Guinness' life (his service in the Navy, for instance) gets a chapter. It does, of course, allow him entirely to omit whole parts of his career (most of his film work, for instance, which he seems for the most part to have undertaken for the money.
An interesting life, well written.
Originally published on my blog here in September 2000. All too often actors' anecdotes amount to "You should have seen me in (whatever).

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