Guinness, who died in 2000 at age 86, was a junior member of Britain’s circle of acting knights, but Sir Alec was always a little different from the likes of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud ...

Piers Paul Read's authorized biography of Alec Guinness begins provocatively with the actor's statement, "My mother was a whore." Read shows how lifelong bitterness at his illegitimate birth in ...

Both Alec Guinness and John Mills are cast as colonels, the former a man of humble origin who has risen from the ranks, the other a product of Eton, Oxford and a classy military academy. It is the ...

Alec Guinness, the last of a breed of stage and screen British actors who were classically trained, broad in the scope of their repertoire, and literate, died on August 5, at the age of 86. This ...

Guinness, who died in 2000 at age 86, was a junior member of Britain’s circle of acting knights, but Sir Alec was always a little different from the likes of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud ...