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1. Edwin (1984)
directed by Rodney Bennett
featuring Alec Guinness, Paul Rogers
Though we never see him, Edwin is the pivotal character in this British comedy. Alec Guinness stars as a retired British barrister Sir Fennimore ... More
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2. Smiley's People (1982)
directed by Simon Langton
featuring Alec Guinness, Vass Anderson, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Andrew Bradford
A sequel to 1980's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, this BBC miniseries once again focuses on British spy George Smiley (Sir Alec Guinness), once again ... More
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3. Scrooge (1970)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith
Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical ... More
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4. A Passage to India (1984)
directed by David Lean
featuring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness
A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an ... More
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5. A Majority of One (1961)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel
This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing into the nature of ... More
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6. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
directed by Charles Crichton
featuring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding
Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, ... More
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7. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually ... More
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8. Twelfth Night (1969)
directed by John Sichel
featuring Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright, Adrienne Corri
This televised adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, originally screened on Britain's ITV in 1969, stars Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, ... More
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9. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger
Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention ... More
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10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
directed by David Lean
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains
This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. ... More
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11. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini ... More
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12. Lovesick (1983)
directed by Marshall Brickman
featuring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace Shawn
Saul (Dudley Moore), a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients. Chloe has already ... More
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13. Tunes of Glory (1960)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York
Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. ... More
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14. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Mike Morgan, Renee Houston, Robert Coote
The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to starring in the film. ... More
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15. To Paris with Love (1955)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray, Jacques Francois, Elina Labourdette
In this lively British romantic comedy, a baronet decides that his son needs to experience life outside of his blue-blooded world and so takes him to ... More
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16. The Detective (1954)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee
Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character created by novelist G.K. ... More
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17. The Comedians (1967)
directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford
The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a ... More
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18. All at Sea (1957)
directed by Charles Frend
featuring Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham
In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest aqueous movement makes him ... More
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19. A Run for Your Money (1949)
directed by Charles Frend
featuring Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister, Meredith Edwards, Hugh Griffith
In this comedy, two brothers, both of them Welsh coal-miners, win a contest and get to go on a day trip to London. Upon their arrival in the town, ... More
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20. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)
directed by John Irvin
featuring Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston
Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss ... More
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21. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham
St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many ... More
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22. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
directed by David Lean
featuring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as ... More
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23. Murder by Death (1976)
directed by Robert Moore
featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith
As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the ... More
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24. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel ... More
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25. Hotel Paradiso (1966)
directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff
While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida), the ... More
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