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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 ...
5 days ago · 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. This complex tale of espionage, human frailty and betrayal, played out in the morally grey and stodgily brown 70s Britain that lingered into my childhood in the 80s ...
1 day ago · Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor are highly regarded for their performances as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, but other actors almost got the iconic role. Hugh Jackman, Kenneth Branagh, Joseph Fiennes, Toshiro Mifune, Peter Cushing, and Tim Roth were all considered for the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
1 day ago · Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, and Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Lucasfilm Lucas then detailed, “Obviously, the Sith are always unhappy because they never get enough of anything they want.
5 days 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. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 30 March 1968.
1 day ago · He opted for Alec Guinness, as he felt he had an element of Charlie Chaplin about him. More significantly, his career at Rank had rather stalled after his portrayal of Fagin in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948) had been denounced as anti-Semitic in the United States. So, he was available and not overly expensive.
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.
