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1. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
directed by Jack Gold
featuring Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness stars as an elderly Brit who takes in his poor New Yorker grandson (Ricky Schroeder) in this made-for-TV modern-day retelling of ... More
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2. Edwin (1984)
directed by Rodney Bennett
featuring Alec Guinness, Paul RogersThough 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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3. Scrooge (1970)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence NaismithScrooge 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. Smiley's People (1982)
directed by Simon Langton
featuring Alec Guinness, Vass Anderson, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Andrew BradfordA 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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5. A Passage to India (1984)
directed by David Lean
featuring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec GuinnessA 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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6. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher PlummerThough 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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7. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James DonaldThe 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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8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)
directed by John Irvin
featuring Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael JaystonLiving 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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9. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
directed by Charles Crichton
featuring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie FieldingCharles 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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10. The Detective (1954)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard LeeAlec 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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11. A Majority of One (1961)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae QuestelList of all editionsThis 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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12. Lovesick (1983)
directed by Marshall Brickman
featuring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace ShawnList of all editionsSaul (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. To Paris with Love (1955)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray, Jacques Francois, Elina LabourdetteList of all editionsIn 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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14. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan GreenwoodList of all editionsAlec 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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15. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Mike Morgan, Renee Houston, Robert CooteList of all editionsThe 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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16. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst ThesigerList of all editionsAlec 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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17. Tunes of Glory (1960)
directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah YorkList of all editionsTwo 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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18. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
directed by David Lean
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude RainsList of all editionsThis 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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19. Twelfth Night (1969)
directed by John Sichel
featuring Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright, Adrienne CorriList of all editionsThis 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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20. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth CranhamList of all editionsSt. 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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21. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
directed by David Lean
featuring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec GuinnessList of all editionsBased 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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22. The Comedians (1967)
directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul FordThe 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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23. A Run for Your Money (1949)
directed by Charles Frend
featuring Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister, Meredith Edwards, Hugh GriffithList of all editionsIn 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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24. Murder by Death (1976)
directed by Robert Moore
featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie SmithList of all editionsAs 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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25. Hotel Paradiso (1966)
directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim TamiroffWhile his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida), the ... More







