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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.
Hit the small pictures to see the full captures.
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The
Ladykillers (1955)
-Playing Professor Marcus
-A gang of gentleman crooks use a sweet old granny
(Kaitie Johnson) as a pawn in their scheme to steal £60,000
from a couple of security vehicles. All goes according
to plan when the doddery old bat unwittingly plays her
part for the men she thinks are humble musicians - but,
when she finally catches on to what's happening, our thieves
are left to take care of the old lady in a not so honorable
fashion. Unfortunately for the criminals, luck is not
on their side, and are offed quite accidentally, one at
a time.
-Professor
Marcus is the buck-toothed, pasty-faced leader
of the nefarious gang and the last one to die. |
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Malta
Story (1953)
-Playing Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross
-In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since
it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The
Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty
of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage
as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe.
Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's
romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to
plot enemy movements. |
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The
Man in the White Suit (1951)
-Playing Sidney Stratton
-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 (1951)
-Playing Henry Holland
-Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and
living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has
worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold
bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs.
Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment,
one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel
Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France.
Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services
of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together,
the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists
and turns. |
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The
Mudlark (1950)
-Playing Benjamin Disraeli
-"Mudlarks" are street children who exist by
scavenging on the banks of the River Thames. In 1875 London,
a 10-year-old Mudlark boy named Wheeler (Andrew Ray) finds
a dead body where he discovers a Queen Victoria medallion,
who he understands to be 'mother of England'. The scruffy
urchin then sets out for Windsor Castle in search of her.
But, Victoria has shut herself away in her palace for
the last thirteen years, in mourning over her dead husband.
-Benjamin Disraeli is the prime minister who is struggling
hard to persuade the Queen to end her long seclusion. |
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Kind
Hearts and Coronets (1949)
-Playing The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General
/ The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
-Louis Mazzini's (Dennis Price) mother belongs to the
aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an
opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by
the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenge his
mother and him, by becoming the next Duke by murdering
every potential successor in the family.
-Alec Guinness plays all the members of the aristocratic
family as they get bumped off, one by one.
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Oliver
Twist (1948)
-Playing Fagin
-Based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist is about
an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets
a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken
in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young
boys who are trained to steal for their master.
-Fagin is the leader of a group of children, the Artful
Dodger among them, whom he teaches to make their livings
by pickpocketing and other criminal activities. Bill Sykes,
one of the major villains of the novel, is one of Fagin's
old pupils. Near the end of the movie, he is hanged, following
capture.
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Great
Expectations (1946)
-Playing Herbert Pocket
-This story takes place in the 1830s and is about an orphan
boy named Pip (John Mills as the young man), who
receives a fortune and becomes a gentleman in London society,
while his love for a woman named Estella develops. Pip
gets involved with a convict named Magwitch who dies in
prison. But, Pip finds out that Estella is the convict's
daughter. Pip later rescues Estella from becoming her
father's prey, and the bitter old woman Pip grew up with
burns to death in her decaying mansion.
-Herbert Pocket assists Pip in a futile attempt to escape
by packet steamer. |
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