Highlighted works
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An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense.
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David Lean’s screen version of Charles Dickens’s masterpiece remains the finest cinematic interpretation of this much-adapted novel.
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Alec Guinness plays a WWII British colonel whose perverse sense of duty leads him to help his Japanese captors build a bridge.
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Boris Pasternak’s story of love in the Russian Revolution confirmed David Lean’s standing as the master of the sweeping historical epic.
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The orphan and the spinster, the marshland and the metropolis: Dickens’s vivid characters and locales receive the breath of cinematic life in David Lean’s cherished adaptation.
Filmography
2019
Star Wars Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
voice of Obi Wan Kenobi
2003
[Subject of Programme]
2001
[Subject of Film]
1997
interviewee
1996
James
1996
the reaper
1996
on-screen participant
1994
narrator
1994
Gielgud Scenes from Nine Decades
interviewee
1993
The Graham Greene Trilogy Part 3 A World of My Own
Readings
1993
The Graham Greene Trilogy Part 2 The Dangerous Edge
reader
1993
The Graham Greene Trilogy Part 1 England Made Me
Readings
1993
Amos
1992
Heinrich Mann
1991
The Chief Clerk
1990
Coral Browne Caviar to the General
interviewee
1989
Laurence Olivier - A Service of Thanksgiving from Westminster Abbey
Address given by
1988
Mr. Todd (South America)
1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
cast member
1987
Little Dorrit 1. Nobody's Fault
William Dorrit
1987
interviewee
1985
[Subject of Film]
1985
Father Quixote
1985
Professor Godbole
1985
on-screen participant
1984
Sir Fennimore Truscott
1983
Sigmund Freud
1983
Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
1982
George Smiley
1982
George Smiley
1982
George Smiley
1982
George Smiley
1982
George Smiley
1982
George Smiley
1980
Performances in Depth: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
[Subject of Film]
1980
[Proposed cast member]
1980
Earl of Dorincourt
1980
John Bigalow
1980
Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
Ben [Obi-Wan] Kenobi
1980
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
on-screen participant
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 6
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 1
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 7
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 2
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 3
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 5
George Smiley
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Part 4
George Smiley
1977
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi
1977
cast member
1977
interviewee
1976
cast member
1976
Caesar
1976
Jamessir Bensonmum, the butler
1974
Jocelyn Broome
1973
Adolf Hitler
1972
Pope Innocent III
1970
King Charles I
1970
Malvolio
1970
Marley's ghost
1970
A Selection from E.E. Cummings
reader
1970
reader
1970
on-screen participant
1970
on-screen participant
1970
Ken Hughes: The Director Is General
on-screen participant
1969
the executioner
1969
on-screen participant
1968
narrator
1968
Malvolio
1967
Pol
1967
Major Jones
1966
Benedict Boniface
1965
Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
Herr Wilhelm Frick
1965
General Yevgraf Zhivago
1964
Marcus Aurelius
1962
Captain Crawford
1962
Prince Feisal
1962
On-screen Participant
1961
Lieutenant Colonel Jock Sinclair
1961
Koichi Asano
1960
Jim Wormold
1959
cast member
1959
John Barratt/Jacques de Gué
1959
The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks
Deeks
1958
Screenplay by
Gulley Jimson1958
Captain William Horatio Ambrose
[Ambrose's six ancestors]1958
Colonel Nicholson
1956
Professor Marcus
1956
Prince Albert
1955
narrator
1955
the cardinal
1955
Colonel Sir Edgar Fraser
1955
The Major
1954
Father Ignatius Brown
1953
narrator
1953
Captain Henry St. James
1953
Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross
1953
on-screen participant
1952
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
1951
[Subject of Programme]
1951
Sidney Stratton
1951
Henry Holland
1950
George Bird
1950
Benjamin Disraeli
1949
Whimple
1949
Ethelred D'Ascoyne, Duke of Chalfont
Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne, the banker
Rev Lord Henry D'Ascoyne, the parson
General Rufus D'Ascoyne
Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne
young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
young Henry D'Ascoyne
Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne1948
Fagin
1947
Herbert Pocket
1934
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