Alec Guinness

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Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE, born Alec Guinness de Cuffe, on 2nd April 1914, at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK was an actor. After an early career on the stage, Alec appeared in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets, in which he played 9 different characters. Guinness collaborated 6 times with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984).