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 ...

Tunes of Glory 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 ...

Sir Alec Guinness was a singular paradox of pop culture: a household name without a persona. Even if he hadn’t played Obi-Wan Kenobi in 1977’s Star Wars — and, in so doing, become a Gandalf ...

Alec Guinness appeared in several movies based on Charles Dickens’ stories of lost and abused children. No wonder. Although he wasn’t an orphan, he never knew the identity of his father, his ...

Mr. Guinness, who was 86, started his career in the same time and place that produced other major British actors: Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, John Gielgud, Anthony Quayle and Ralph ...

Of the late, great quartet of classical British actors--Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Guinness--he was the youngest and most elusive.

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 ...

Sir Alec Guinness almost quit Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy after he panicked he couldn't handle the role of George Smiley and even suggested Dad's Army's Arthur Lowe as his replacement.

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 ...