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Alec Guinness

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Guinness, Alec 

Born Apr. 2, 1914, in London. British actor and director.

Guinness received a theatrical education in the private studio of F. Compton. In 1936 he was invited to perform at the Old Vic Theater in London, where he portrayed Hamlet and Richard II in Shakespeare’s plays and Khlestakov in Gogol’s Inspector-General; in other theaters, he played Dmitri Karamazov (based on Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov) and von Berg (in Miller’s Incident at Vichy). He staged Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Hamlet. Guinness has made films, including Great Expectations, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, The Comedians, and Cromwell.

REFERENCES

Tynan, K. Alec Guinness, 2nd ed. [London] 1955.
Utilov, V. “Alek Ginnes.” In the collection Aktery zarubezhnogo kino, issue 3. Moscow, 1966.

F. M. KRYMKO



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The now 97-year-old Ronald Neame worked with Alec Guinness on five important British films: as producer of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist , and director of The Card, The Horse's Mouth and Tunes of Glory, made when we had a properly functioning film industry.
19 and 20, Lawrence of Arabia (1962), with Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Donald Wolfit and Arthur Kennedy, screens at 2 and 7.
Alec Guinness The Authorized Biography Piers Paul Read Simon and Schuster, $35, 624 pp.
 
 
 
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