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Obi-Wan Kenobi played by Alec Guinness
Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi
played by Alec Guinness with filmographies from other
movies and TV shows including cameo appearances.
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Scrooge
(1970)
-Playing Jacob Marley's Ghost
-Albert Finney shines as the title character in this musical
version of Charles Dickens' timeless tale of Ebenezer
Scrooge, a lonely miser who is visited on Christmas Eve
by three spirits who teach him lessons of love and giving.
-Jacob Marley's Ghost is Scrooge's dead business partner
and has been condemned to an eternity of wandering the
Earth in shackles. The chain he wears is made of cash-boxes,
keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought
in steel. Jacob Marley's Ghost also informs Scrooge that
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Cromwell
(1970)
-Playing King Charles I
-Disgusted with the religious policies of King Charles
I, Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) 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 British Civil War.
-King Charles I is the monarch who believes his crown
gives him a direct pipeline to the wisdom of God. He eventually
stands trial and is executed. |
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Doctor
Zhivago (1965)
-Playing General Yevgraf Zhivago
-Set in the years of the Bolshevik Revolution in
Russia, this follows the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago
as he marries an upper-class girl and has his life totally
disrupted by war.
When the revolution forces Zhivago and his wife to seek
refuge in a country cottage east of the Urals, Zhivago
reunites with Lara (Julie Christie) and they have a tender
love affair, but it is disrupted by civil war.
-General
Yevgraf Zhivago is Yuri's half-brother and is searching
for him and his mistress Larissa ("Lara") Antipova.
Yevgraf narrates the story, but rarely interacts with
any other characters in the flashbacks. |
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The
Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
-Playing Marcus Aurelius
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius- is a philosopher and emperor
of Rome. He summons his empire's governors and princes
to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides
to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius,
will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus.
Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus,
presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral,
Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for himself
or Rome, allows Commodus to proclaim himself emperor. |
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Lawrence
of Arabia (1962)
-Playing Prince Feisal
-This is the story of Thomas Edward Lawrence, who blazed
his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity
as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story starts
with the death of Lawrence in in London at the age of
47. It then flashbacks to show him as a young intelligence
officer in Cairo, in the desert where he organizes a guerrilla
army leading the Arabs in desert raids against the Turks
and leading his army to help the British destroy the Ottoman
Empire.
-Prince Feisal is a Saudi Arabian prince and Lawrence's
friend.They first meet when Lawrence is dispatched as
a translator by the British to the Prince's tent. |
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Tunes
of Glory (1960)
-Playing Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
-This is the story of two senior officers in a Scottish
military regiment. Major Jock Sinclair has been the acting
Colonel of the Regiment and is well respected, so he assumes
that he will be made the commanding officer. To his surprise,
they learn that Lt. Colonel Basil Barrow has been named
to the post. Barrow is a strict disciplinarian compared
to Sinclair's easygoing approach and as he tries to impose
his own style of leadership on his command, he struggles
to gain the loyalty of his officers, particularly that
of Sinclair who bristles at being a second-in-command
with little to do. A final confrontation between the two
men leads to tragedy for both of them. |
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Our
Man in Havana (1959)
-Playing Jim
Wormold
-Jim Wormold is an 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. Wormold hasn't got
a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher
suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he
manufactures a list of agents and fictional tales for
the Secret Service. He becomes the best agent in the Western
Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the police
start rounding up his "network" and he learns
that he is the target of a group out to kill him. |
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The
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
-Playing Colonel Nicholson
-The film's story was loosely based on a true World War
II incident in a Japanese POW camp in Burma from late
1942 through May 1943. POW's were ordered to build a Kwai
River bridge to help move Japanese sup plies and troops
from Bangkok to Rangoon. It was the number one
box-office success of the year and it won seven Academy
Awards.
-Colonel
Nicholson at first refuses to build the bridges,
but through persuasive tactics he eventually agrees. Nicholson
becomes so obsessed with completing the bridge that it
drives him insane.
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