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  Mapa da Flórida USA
Modelps e paisagens turisticas, hoteis curitiba estrangeros vivido por Alec Guiness em "A Ponte do Rio Kwai" _em versão bastante romanceada.
O episódio virou sucesso no cinema na pele do coronel britânico Kol Nicholson, vivido por Alec Guiness em "A Ponte do Rio Kwai" Mapa da Tailandia em versão bastante romanceada.
O episódio virou sucesso no cinema na pele do coronel britânico Kol Nicholson, vivido por Alec Guiness em "A Ponte do Rio Kwai" Mapas e roteiros dos Estados Unidos e Canadá.
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  Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness KBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was a British actor.
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Alec Guiness died of liver cancer on August 5, 2000, at Midhurst[?] in West Sussex and was interred near Petersfield[?], Hampshire, England.
Alec Guinness has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alec_Guiness.html   (238 words)

  
 Alec Guinness - The Man Who Can Do Everything
Sir Alec died aged 86 at King Edward VII Hospital in Midhurst, West Sussex, after battling a long illness.
So it was as a very small Alec Stiven, shortly after the start of my mother's violently unhappy marriage, which only lasted three years, that I entered yet another new 'home' - a very depressing three-roomed flat at the top of a gloomy house in St-John's Wood.
The basement of the house was occupied by a caretaker and his wife, whom I cannot remember, and the ground floor front room was lived in by a mysterious old lady whom I didn't encounter for several weeks.
www.murphsplace.com /guinness/bio.html   (1260 words)

  
 Alec Guiness - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
Born in London in 1914, Sir Alec Guinness was one of the outstanding actors of his generation.
It would consist of Sir Alec reading some of his favourite poems and pieces of prose, and the idea was that copies of the tape would be given to a small circle of friends after his death.
We now know that Sir Alec had already sounded out his son Matthew about the idea, and that Matthew had responded enthusiastically: it would be a wonderful memento for those who had known one of the greatest actors of the century.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000005217,00.html   (623 words)

  
 Alec Guinness | Biography (1914-2000) - The Discreet Charm of Alec Guinness
But then Alec Guinness was a supreme example of the actor who hides behind the mask of his characters and who prefers to let his performances speak for him.
He was born Alec Guinness de Cuffe (de Cuffe was his mother's surname; he never knew the identity of his father) in London in 1914 and educated at private schools in the South.
Sir Alec was married to Merula Salaman from the 20th June 1938 to his death on the 5th August 2000.
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 Alec Guinness Summary
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Oscar-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation.
He was born in London, England, allegedly as Alec Guinness de Cauffe, although what is written on his birth certificate, which reportedly lacked a father's name, is not known.
She would later marry Alec's stepfather, a mentally ill soldier from the Anglo-Irish War who was suffering from what would today be known as Post-traumatic stress disorder.
www.bookrags.com /Alec_Guinness   (2328 words)

  
 MMI Tribute: Alec Guiness   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alec Guinness was the humblest of great actors.
Since he seemed to shed his skin each time he tackled a new role (sometimes as many as eight in a single film), he could slide, unrecognized, into the general population.
In one famous encounter recorded at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, a visibly aggrieved Sir Alec stared, not at the legendary blue eyes of the Princess of Wales, but at her very full dinner plate, while his own plate lay empty in front of him.
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 Star Wars: Biography | Sir Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) is widely considered one of the greatest actors of the 20th century.
His portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars trilogy introduced him to a younger generation of filmgoers, but he was a legend in his own right long before taking up a lightsaber.
Sir Alec was an advertising copywriter before he turned to acting in the 1930s.
www.starwars.com /bio/siralecguinness.html   (309 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - Who is the better actor? Christopher Lee or Alec Guiness?
Alec Guiness even though Christopher Lee is cooler because he's been both in SW AND in LOTR.
Guiness was the superior actor all around, something I'm confident that Lee would agree with (unless he has some personal vendetta against Guiness).
Alec Guiness is a much better actor, even though he hated Star Wars later on in his life cause he knew that the public would forget everything else he did.
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 Biography for Alec Guinness   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guiness remarked that Olivier's willingness to plunge into the dark and unknown was characteristic of the type of person (and actor) he was.
Was the subject of a cover story in "Time" magazine for the week of April 21, 1958, shortly after he won the Best Actor Oscar for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
In the last year of his life, Sir Alec had been receiving hospital treatment for failing eyesight due to glaucoma, and he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in January 2000.
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 Alec Guinness - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Guinness, Sir Alec (1914-2000), English actor, considered one of the best of the 20th century.
In his roles in motion pictures and on the stage...
Oliver Twist (motion picture), British motion-picture adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.
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 Alec Guinness News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
News about Alec Guinness continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Based on the writings of T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence Of Arabia is widely considered one of the greatest films of the twentieth century.
Alec Guinness made him wait outside until he'd finished lunch.
www.topix.net /who/alec-guinness   (714 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - alec guiness is soo cool
Alec Guiness was one of the great actors of our time.
Alec Guiness will always be the ghost and there is no point debating it.
Alec Guiness is cool, but that isn't what is being 'discussed' here; in fact nothing is being discussed, it is simply a means to incite negativity and anger.
boards.theforce.net /classic_trilogy/b10002/17851812/p2   (1324 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography: Books: Piers Paul Read   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Alec was a young boy, he figured out that his mother was something of a tart.
Read interviews many members of her family all of whom lived in fear of Alec Guinness, who admittedly was in a difficult position.
A significant portion of the book flips back and forth between the sacred and the profane, so to speak, with Read reporting dozens of instances of behavior that can only be viewed as questionable, despite the fact that Guinness does not seem to have ever acted on his confusing urges.
www.amazon.com /Alec-Guinness-Piers-Paul-Read/dp/0743244982   (2769 words)

  
 Sir Alec Guinness | Actors | Movie Forum
So, as someone who was lucky enough to experience that phenonomen first time round, you might think Sir Alec Guinness is forever associated in my mind as Obi-Wan Kenobi (as he undoubtably is with movie fans the world over).
Alec Guinness said he never enjoyed playing parts that were too much like himself.
Of course the fact is that it was his performance that made Obi-Wan the calm at the centre of the storm, someone people would implicity trust.
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 Alec Guiness
alec guiness • star wars • obi wan kenobi • bridge on the river kwai
A tribute to the late Sir Alec Guiness, who was best known to Sci-Fi fans as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars Trilogy.
sir • alecguiness • star wars • george lucas
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 Sir Alec Guinness, convert
When Sir Alec Guinness began pouring himself into a new character, the first thing he focused on was the legs.
All that we really know about Sir Alec Guinness -- right down the line -- is that he did not consider his life to be public property.
"It would be wrong to try to see Alec Guinness in isolation," said Pearce, whose book covers this period and drew a letter of gratitude from the actor.
tmatt.gospelcom.net /column/2000/08/09   (711 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Sir Alec Guinness dies
The actor Sir Alec Guinness has died in hospital at the age of 86.
Sir Alec was taken to hospital by ambulance on Thursday from his home in the village of Steep Marsh, near Petersfield, Hampshire.
Sir Alec married playwright Merula Salaman in 1938.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/869059.stm   (435 words)

  
 Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts
Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts
- Le Carre on Alec in a conversation with Adrian Wootton - Fascinating!
From the prologue of Blessings In Disguise, by Alec Guinness
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 Alec Guinness Blasts Jedi 'Mumbo Jumbo'
Sir Alec Guinness hated Star Wars so much he talked George Lucas into killing the Obi-Wan Kenobi character, he revealed in a recent interview.
Guinness, one of the grand figures of British film with more than 60 cinematic appearances to his credit, told the new chatter magazine Talk that he convinced series creator Lucas that Kenobi would be a more effective mystical mentor if he appeared to Luke as a ghost.
Despite early rumors to the contrary, McGregor is confirmed as being involved in the next two Star Wars films, and Lucas has said he will play a much larger part in the next installment, due to hit theaters in 2001.
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 Amazon.fr : Alec Guiness: A Life: Livres en anglais: Garry O'Connor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The late Sir Alec Guinness, one of the great British actors of the 20th Century along with his fellow knights Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, was known for his ability to slip, chameleon-like, into his roles.
Known, but not known, for despite being a familiar face throughout the world from his acting and memoirs, Guiness remained an enigmatic, complex man, careful throughout his life to show little of his true self.
For the first time, Garry O'Connor is able to reveal the full story, including how Guinness was shaped by his illegitimacy, his strained relationship with is mother, and his search for certainties through the Roman Catholic Church.
www.amazon.fr /Alec-Guiness-Life-Garry-OConnor/dp/1557835748   (368 words)

  
 Alec Guinness Interview with Don Swaim   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness, British stage and screen actor, talks with Don Swaim during this 1986 interview about Guinness's autobiography, Blessings in Disguise.
Guinness also discusses his lifelong search for his father, his naval career, his friendship with Ernest Hemingway and some of the writers that influenced him.
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 Celebopedia - Sir Alec Guinness
With his aristocratic gait and air of savoir fare, Sir Alec created a worldly array of memorable characters on the screen from British officers, to Arabian sheiks to Russian agents to otherworldy Jedi Knights to the most horrible butcher mankind has known.
Sir Alec was not the original vision for the role of the venerable Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.
The character was originally planned to be less serious, but the grace Sir Alec brought to the part caused George Lucas to re-write it.
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 Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness nació en Londres (Gran Bretaña) en 1914.
Su primera aparición en escena se produce en 1933, centrándose a partir de 1936 en la interpretación de obras de William Shakespeare en el Old Vic Theatre de Londres; muy comentada fue su interpretación en Hamlet (1938).
Alec Guinness falleció en 2001 tras una intachable trayectoria profesional.
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 Blessings In Disguise - Alec Guiness - Penguin UK
Blessings in Disguise is not an autobiography in the classic sense, but rather a hugely entertaining collection of witty, carefully selected and highly entertaining theatrical moments.
A genius at character portrayal, Alec Guinness gives us wonderful sketches of, among others, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Noel Coward and Grace Kelly.
Running through the book is an emerging picture of Sir Alec himself: his extraordinary career, his religious beliefs and his war and travel experiences all recounted with perfect timing, a lack of malice, and humour mixed with humanity.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140864830,00.html   (123 words)

  
 Alec Guinness - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Alec Guinness (2 de abril de 1914 - 5 de agosto de 2000) fue un actor británico.
Por otra parte, fue nominado al Oscar como actor principal por The Lavender Hill Mob en 1951, y como actor de reparto por La Guerra de las Galaxias en 1977 y Little Dorrit en 1988.
Alec Guiness en Internet Movie Database (en inglés)
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 Alec Guinness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation.
While in the Navy, Guinness for a while planned on becoming an Anglican priest.
In Robert A. Heinlein's book Double Star, Alec Guinness was mentioned by the character "Lorenzo," with the line: "I needed a face as commonplace, as impossible to remember as the true face of the immortal Alec Guinness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alec_Guinness   (1467 words)

  
 Alec Guinness - Photo - Episode IV - A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness) - Moviefone
Alec Guinness - Photo - Episode IV - A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness) - Moviefone
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness)
Alec Guinness photo of ' Episode IV - A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness)' on Moviefone.
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 Biographies & Memoirs / Autobiography / Blessings In Disguise by Alec Guiness, Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print Books
Biographies & Memoirs / Autobiography / Blessings In Disguise by Alec Guiness
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