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Alec Guinness (April 2, 1914 London, England - August 5, 2000) is the English-born actor who portrayed Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi, Jedi Knight in the first three (original trilogy) Star Wars films. As guide and teacher to Luke Skywalker, Ben Kenobi introduces Luke and the audience to the Jedi. Mentoring the hero, Luke, with questions and few answers, he appears in all three films: Star Wars movies: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
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Captain Ambrose (Alec Guinness) is the last in a long line of distinguished seafarers. Forced to retire due to chronic seasickness, he takes charge of a dilapidated pier in a seaside resort. After he finds out the town’s Mayor wants to demolish his beloved pier, Ambrose registers the pier as a foreign cruise ship at anchor – and so free from the law of the land. As the feisty Captain battles with the infuriated authorities, all manner of hilarious antics ensue.
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Guinness was born on 2 April 1914 in Paddington, London as Alec Guinness de Cuffe.[1] Under the column for name (where the first names only are usually stated) his birth certificate says 'Alec Guinness'. There is nothing written in the column for name and surname of father. In the column for mother's name is written 'Agnes de Cuffe'. On this basis it has been frequently speculated that the actor's father was a member of the Irish Guinness family. However, his benefactor was a Scottish banker named Andrew Geddes, and the similarity of his name to the name written on the actor's birth certificate ('Alec Guinness') may be a subtle reference to the identity of the actor's father. From 1875, English law required both the presence and consent of the father when the birth of an illegitimate child was registered in order for his name to be put on the certificate.
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In The Captain’s Paradise Alec Guinness plays the thoroughly selfish and conceited Henry St James captaining a ship between Gibraltar and Morocco. When he’s in Gibraltar with his straight-laced British wife Maud, played by Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter), he eats at home and goes to bed early. However, when he’s with his fiery Spanish wife Nita (Yvonne De Carlo), he stays out dancing into the small hours. Problems arise when his wives begin to demand more than the life he has carved out for each of them, and it doesn’t take long for St James’ perfect ‘paradise’ to collapse.
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Alec Guinness was born in London in 1914 to Agnes Cuffe, an unmarried woman who cared for him in a haphazard manner. She refused to divulge his father’s identity, and he never discovered why the name Guinness appeared on his birth certificate. By the time he was six, the child often was left alone for hours at a time. His mother entered a brief marriage to a brutal man who was hated and feared by young Alec. The boy’s only release from the misery of poverty and neglect came when he was sent away to school. As a teenager, he discovered the enchantment of the theater.
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Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of serviceRead More
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