Alec Guinness

ALEC GUINNESS d2000. English actor whose career took off after his role in Kind Hearts and Coronets in 1949. Other notable film roles include : Laurence of Arabia (1962) / Doctor Zhivago (1965) / A Passage To India (1984) and as Obi Wan Kenobi in The Star Wars Trilogy. He won the Academy Award for best actor as Colonel Nicholson in the classic "Bridge On The River Kwai" (1957). He died of cancer aged 86 in 2000.