Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Actor (1914 - 2000)
22
Movies
80.2%
Avg ThumbScore
War
Top Genre

Audiences rate Alec Guinness’s films higher than 93% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Kind Hearts and Coronets (Tubi, Kanopy) · The Ladykillers (Kanopy) · The Lavender Hill Mob (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Oliver Twist (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi) · The Bridge on the River Kwai (YouTube) · Great Expectations (Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi, Fawesome) and 9 more.

Frequent Collaborators

David Lean (3)Mark Hamill (2)Harrison Ford (2)Carrie Fisher (2)Anthony Daniels (2)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Alec Guinness (80.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 22 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Alec's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 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.

Born 1914-04-02 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. Died 2000-08-05.

On ThumbScore, Alec Guinness appears in 22 films with an average audience score of 80.2%, most frequently in the War genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Alec Guinness movie, ranked by audience score

The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
👍 94%
Star Wars
Star Wars
1977
👍 89%
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
👍 88%
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers
1955
👍 88%
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
👍 87%
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
1948
👍 87%
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
👍 86%
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
1946
👍 86%
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
👍 84%
The Man in the White Suit
The Man in the White Suit
1951
👍 82%
Cromwell
Cromwell
1970
👍 81%
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
👍 80%
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
👍 79%
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
1965
👍 78%
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
👍 78%
Our Man in Havana
Our Man in Havana
1960
👍 78%
Scrooge
Scrooge
1970
👍 76%
A Passage to India
A Passage to India
1984
👍 76%
Mute Witness
Mute Witness
1995
👍 72%
Kafka
Kafka
1991
👍 68%
Raise the Titanic
Raise the Titanic
1980
👍 66%
Murder by Death
Murder by Death
1976
👍 62%