Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Born: April 2, 1914
Died: August 5, 2000
in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Movies for Alec Guinness...

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Character: Self - Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A new documentary that showcases the making of the epic limited series. Features never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and visits to the creature shop and props department.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Title: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive voice)
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: Movie
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive sound) (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Title: Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout both cinematic trilogies and into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. SportsCenter is tracing the lightsaber’s lineage through the films, and a new trailer for the special will definitely delight any fan’s inner Star Wars Kid.
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Title: Talking Pictures
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: TV
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
Title: Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
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When Star Wars Ruled the World
Title: When Star Wars Ruled the World
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: Movie
A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.
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The Story of Star Wars
Title: The Story of Star Wars
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)
Released: August 18, 2004
Type: Movie
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed it all: the famous droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2. Episodes IV,V and VI are explored in "The Story of Luke Skywalker," which follows the young man escaping from his daily chores on Tatooine to his becoming a hero in the Rebal Alliance. In "The Story of Anakin Skywalker," you'll go behind the mask of the greatest Star Wars villain and discover how Darth Vader started life as a young Podracing Champ on Tatooine and later became a headstrong young Jedi seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. With clips from the Star Wars films, C-3PO and R2-D2 take you on an hour-long journey through the saga and prepare you for the explosive final chapter: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
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The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
Title: The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: Movie
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The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Title: The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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Eskimo Day
Title: Eskimo Day
Character: James
Released: April 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
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Mute Witness
Title: Mute Witness
Character: The Reaper
Released: September 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.
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A Foreign Field
Title: A Foreign Field
Character: Amos
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Title: Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority.
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Tales from Hollywood
Title: Tales from Hollywood
Character: Heinrich Mann
Released: October 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
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Kafka
Title: Kafka
Character: The Chief Clerk
Released: November 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
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Title: Performance
Character: Heinrich Mann
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Title: Screen One
Character: Amos
Released: September 10, 1989
Type: TV
Anthology drama series.
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A Handful of Dust
Title: A Handful of Dust
Character: Mr. Todd
Released: June 24, 1988
Type: Movie
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.
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Little Dorrit
Title: Little Dorrit
Character: William Dorrit
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
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David Lean: A Life in Film
Title: David Lean: A Life in Film
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
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Monsignor Quixote
Title: Monsignor Quixote
Character: Father Quixote
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.
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A Passage to India
Title: A Passage to India
Character: Professor Godbole
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
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Edwin
Title: Edwin
Character: Sir Fennimore Truscott
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
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Return of the Jedi
Title: Return of the Jedi
Character: Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Released: May 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
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Lovesick
Title: Lovesick
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Title: Smiley's People
Character: George Smiley
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: TV
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Earl of Dorincourt
Released: December 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
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SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back
Title: SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back
Character: Obi Wan Kenobi
Released: September 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back into reality!
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Raise the Titanic
Title: Raise the Titanic
Character: John Bigalow
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Title: The Empire Strikes Back
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Released: May 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
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Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Character: George Smiley
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: TV
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
Title: The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
Released: December 31, 1978
Type: Movie
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
Title: The Star Wars Holiday Special
Character: Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
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Title: The South Bank Show
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1978
Type: TV
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
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The Making of Star Wars
Title: The Making of Star Wars
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
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Star Wars
Title: Star Wars
Character: Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Released: May 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
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Murder by Death
Title: Murder by Death
Character: Bensonmum
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Caesar
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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The Gift of Friendship
Title: The Gift of Friendship
Character: Jocelyn Broome
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Title: Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Title: Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Character: Papst Innozenz III.
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Father Quixote
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Jacob Marley's Ghost
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
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Cromwell
Title: Cromwell
Character: King Charles I
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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The Ealing Comedies
Title: The Ealing Comedies
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Malvolio
Released: January 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John Dexter’s production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Originally broadcast on Britain’s ITV, this classic performance captures all the slapstick, puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.
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The Comedians
Title: The Comedians
Character: Major H. O. Jones
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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Title: Omnibus
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1967
Type: TV
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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The Comedians in Africa
Title: The Comedians in Africa
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.
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The Quiller Memorandum
Title: The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Pol
Released: November 10, 1966
Type: Movie
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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Hotel Paradiso
Title: Hotel Paradiso
Character: Benedict Boniface
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife, Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this is under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
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Pasternak
Title: Pasternak
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian government to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature for his novel Dr. Zhivago.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
Title: Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious
Character: Wilhelm Frick
Released: October 13, 1965
Type: Movie
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Character: The Executioner
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Title: The Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: Marcus Aurelius
Released: March 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Prince Feisal
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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H.M.S. Defiant
Title: H.M.S. Defiant
Character: Captain Crawford
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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A Majority of One
Title: A Majority of One
Character: Koichi Asano
Released: December 27, 1961
Type: Movie
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
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Tunes of Glory
Title: Tunes of Glory
Character: Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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Our Man in Havana
Title: Our Man in Havana
Character: Jim Wormold
Released: January 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
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Title: Startime
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: TV
Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: John Barratt / Jacques De Gue
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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The Horse's Mouth
Title: The Horse's Mouth
Character: Gulley Jimson
Released: November 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Title: The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Captain William Horatio Ambrose
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Col. Nicholson
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Set of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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The Swan
Title: The Swan
Character: Prince Albert
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Winner
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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The Ladykillers
Title: The Ladykillers
Character: Professor Marcus
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Cardinal
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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To Paris with Love
Title: To Paris with Love
Character: Sir Edgar Fraser
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
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The Stratford Adventure
Title: The Stratford Adventure
Character: Self
Released: August 2, 1954
Type: Movie
This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre. The film tells how the idea grew, how a famous British director, international stars and Canadian talent were recruited, and how the Stratford Shakespearean Festival finally became a triumphant reality.
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Father Brown
Title: Father Brown
Character: Father Brown
Released: June 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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The Captain's Paradise
Title: The Captain's Paradise
Character: Captain Henry St. James
Released: September 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: Flight Lt. Peter Ross
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Card
Title: The Card
Character: Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Released: February 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Julius Caesar
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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The Man in the White Suit
Title: The Man in the White Suit
Character: Sidney Stratton
Released: August 7, 1951
Type: Movie
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Henry 'Dutch' Holland
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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The Mudlark
Title: The Mudlark
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: George Bird
Released: May 15, 1950
Type: Movie
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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A Run for Your Money
Title: A Run for Your Money
Character: Whimple
Released: November 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Title: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Character: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Released: June 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Herbert Pocket
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Evensong
Title: Evensong
Character: W.W.I. soldier in concert audience (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...