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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Alec Guinness

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Born: United Kingdom / British
Often acts together with James Earl Jones (4)
Often acts in movies directed by David Lean (4)
Number 88 on the Top 100 Stars of the 1950s list
Number 20 on the Top 100 Stars of the 1960s list
Number 6 on the Top 100 Stars of the 1970s list
Number 24 on the Top 100 Stars of the 1980s list

Additional Info

Oscar (Leading Role)Bridge on the River Kwai

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Appearances

Released Movie Name Role 1st weekend US Gross Worldwide Gross
9/15/1995 Mute Witness The Reaper $560,048 $1,125,910 $1,125,910
11/15/1991 Kafka The Chief Clerk   $1,100,000 $1,100,000
10/21/1988 Little Dorrit William Dorrit   $1,025,000 $1,025,000
7/1/1988 A Handful of Dust Mr. Todd   $1,560,700 $1,560,700
12/14/1984 A Passage to India Professor Godbole $84,580 $27,187,653 $27,187,653
5/25/1983 Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi Jedi Knight Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi $23,019,618 $309,205,079 $572,700,000
2/18/1983 Lovesick Sigmund Freud $3,093,281 $10,143,618 $10,143,618
8/1/1980 Raise the Titanic John Bigalow   $7,000,000 $7,000,000
5/21/1980 Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back Jedi Knight Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi $4,910,483 $290,271,960 $534,171,960
5/25/1977 Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope Jedi Knight Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi $1,554,475 $460,998,007 $797,900,000
1/1/1976 Murder by Death Jamesir Bensonmum, Twain's blind butler, aka Irving Goldman et al   $32,511,047 $32,511,047
10/31/1967 The Comedians Major Jones   $5,200,000 $5,200,000
12/22/1965 Doctor Zhivago Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago   $111,721,000 $111,721,000
1/1/1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius   $4,750,000 $4,750,000
12/16/1962 Lawrence of Arabia Prince Feisal   $37,495,385 $69,995,385
12/18/1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Colonel Nicholson   $33,300,000 $33,300,000
 Total Grosses $1,334,595,359 $2,211,392,273
 Average Gross $83,412,210
 Average Opening Weekend$5,537,081