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2 days ago · When Alec Guinness’ Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke about the Jedi of yore, who you might recall were, for over a thousand generations, the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic, the Order ...
3 days ago · Even when George Lucas established A New Hope in 1977, there was a real sense of loss when Sir Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan Kenobi sacrificed himself so his comrades could escape the Death Star.
5 days ago · I first met George Smiley when I was 21. The tap on my shoulder happened in suburban Essex when, home for Christmas, I watched Sir Alec Guinness’ sublime performance as the spymaster in the 1979 BBC adaptation of the John Le Carré novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
1 day ago · In the brilliant David Lean film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Alec Guinness gives one the screen’s great performances as an incredibly brave and resolute British colonel, the senior officer in a jungle-bound Japanese POW camp, who, confusing the culture war for the real war, helps build a superbly engineered bridge for the Japanese army, all to show that British training and methodology is ...
5 days ago · 2 minutes ago. J. R. R. Tolkien spoke to the BBC about the use of his invented languages within The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
2 days ago · " Ewan McGregor and Alec Guinness combine to say these lines to Rey. Alec Guinness's line is taken from the original movie when he says "afraid." Both voices are used again in The Rise of Skywalker, but add the words "Rey" and "Rise" in the collage of Jedi voices.
5 days ago · The Best Actor award has been presented 96 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [1] . The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023), who simultaneously became the first Irish-born actor to win this award.
