First Name
Alec
Last Name
Guinness
Date of Birth
02 April 1914
Height
70
Build
Average
Eye Color
Blue
Hair Color
Grey
Place of Birth
Marylebone, London, England
Star Sign
Aries
Date of Death
05 August 2000
Place of Death
Midhurst, Sussex, England, UK
Cause of Death
Liver Cancer
Ethnicity
White
Religion
Roman Catholic
Claim to Fame
Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars Movies
Gender
Male
Nationality
British
Role ID
Actor/Actress, Soundtrack, Writer
Has Detailed Data (New)
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Couple Profile
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an Academy Award-winning English actor. Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road in Maida Vale, London as Alec Guinness de Cuffe.[1] Under the column for name (where the first names only are usually stated) his birth certificate says `Alec Guinness`. There is nothing written in the column for name and surname of father. In the column for mother`s name is written `Agnes de Cuffe`. On this basis it has been frequently speculated that the actor`s father was a member of the Irish Guinness family. However, his benefactor was a Scottish banker named Andrew Geddes, and the similarity of his name to the name written on the actor`s birth certificate (`Alec Guinness`) may be a subtle reference to the identity of the actor`s father. From 1875, English law required both the presence and consent of the father when the birth of an illegitimate child was registered in order for his name to be put on the certificate. His mother`s maiden name was Agnes Cuff (born 8 December 1890), daughter of Edward Cuff and wife Mary Ann Cuff Benfield. She would later marry a shell shocked veteran of the Anglo-Irish War who, according to Guinness, hallucinated that his own closets were filled with Sinn Féin gunmen waiting to kill him. The man who believed he was Alec Guinness` biological father, Andrew Geddes, paid for the actor`s private school education, but the two never met and the identity of his father continues to be debated.
Guinness married the artist, playwright, and actress Merula Salaman (1914–2000) in 1938; in 1940, they had a son, Matthew Guinness, who later became an actor. Guinness consulted Tarot cards for a time, but came to the conclusion that the symbols of the cards mocked Christianity and Christ. He then burned his cards and shortly afterwards converted to Roman Catholicism. In his biography Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O`Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946. Guinness avoided publicity by giving his name as "Herbert Pocket" to both police and court. Guinness died on August 5, 2000, from liver cancer, at Midhurst in West Sussex. He had been receiving hospital treatment for glaucoma, and had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was interred in Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
Couple Profile Source
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Guinness
University
Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art
Full Name at Birth
Alec Guinness de Cuffe
Page Display = 2 (Legacy)
1
Count - Awards
36
Mother
Agnes Cuff
Family Member
Edward Cuff (grandfather), Mary Ann Cuff (grandmother)
Favorite TV Shows
Due South
Wikipedia Text
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Age
86
Occupation Text
Actor
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