By the mid 1970s, British star Alec Guinness was already a well-known and respected figure in Hollywood and UK. The actor is known for acclaimed films like Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the ...

Alec Guinness was an Oscar winner in the 50s before he signed Star Wars. By the mid-1970s, British actor Alec Guinness was a respected name in Hollywood and the UK. He had made a name for himself ...

Until then, the record was the $94 million Alec Guinness earned for Star Wars, and even that included multiple re-releases. The $156 million mark is so high that no actor has come close in the 21 ...

"Those films became so important to us and to then have a chance to go into them as an actor myself and to play the younger Alec Guinness, it is all too much to imagine really." Guinness had been ...

A look at the career of the actor through the words of his family and friends who knew and worked with him, as well as archive interviews with Guinness and voice recordings from his autobiography.

Stalag 17 served as inspiration for Hogan's Heroes and was a unique approach compared to other common prisoner-of-war films of its time.