Movie Credits
Eskimo Day	(1996)
[ Tom Wilkinson ]
Mute Witness	(1994)
[ Igor Volkov ]
A Foreign Field	(1993)
[ Edward Herrmann ]
Tales from Hollywood	(1992)
[ Jeremy Irons ][ Charles Durning ]
Kafka	(1991)
[ Ian Holm ][ Jeremy Irons ][ Barry Levinson ][ Keith Allen ]
A Handful of Dust	(1988)
[ Rupert Graves ][ James Wilby ][ Stephen Fry ]
Little Dorrit	(1988)
[ Derek Jacobi ][ Paul Rhys ][ David Thewlis ][ Tony Jay ]
A Passage to India	(1984)
[ Edward Fox ][ Art Malik ][ John Michie ][ James Fox ][ David Lean ]
Edwin	(1984)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	(1983)
[ Jeremy Bullock ][ Harrison Ford ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Denis Lawson ]
Lovesick	(1983)
[ Dudley Moore ][ David Strathairn ][ Wallace Shawn ][ John Huston ][ Ron Silver ]
Star Wars	(1983)
[ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ John Williams ]
Little Lord Fauntleroy	(1980)
[ Bill Nighy ][ Rick Schroder ][ Patrick Stewart ]
Raise the Titanic	(1980)
[ Jason Robards ][ Richard Jordan ][ M. Emmet Walsh ]
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	(1980)
[ Jeremy Bullock ][ Harrison Ford ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Denis Lawson ]
Star Wars	(1977)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Denis Lawson ][ George Lucas ]
Murder by Death	(1976)
[ James Cromwell ][ Peter Sellers ][ David Niven ]
The Gift of Friendship	(1974)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days	(1973)
[ Joss Ackland ][ Julian Glover ]
Fratello sole, sorella luna	(1972)
[ Graham Faulkner ][ Peter Firth ]
Scrooge	(1970)
[ Albert Finney ][ Anton Rodgers ][ Roy Kinnear ]
Cromwell	(1970)
[ Timothy Dalton ][ Richard Harris ]
E.E. Cummings	(1970)
Twelfth Night	(1969)
The Comedians	(1967)
[ James Earl Jones ][ Richard Burton ][ Peter Ustinov ]
The Quiller Memorandum	(1966)
[ George Segal ][ Max von Sydow ][ George Sanders ]
Hotel Paradiso	(1966)
Doctor Zhivago	(1965)
[ Tom Courtenay ][ Omar Sharif ][ Klaus Kinski ][ Rod Steiger ]
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious	(1965)
[ Robert Redford ][ Frank Wolff ][ Mike Connors ]
The Fall of the Roman Empire	(1964)
[ Omar Sharif ][ Christopher Plummer ][ James Mason ][ Mel Ferrer ]
H.M.S. Defiant	(1962)
[ Tom Bell ]
Lawrence of Arabia	(1962)
[ Peter O'Toole ][ Anthony Quinn ][ Omar Sharif ][ Claude Rains ]
A Majority of One	(1961)
[ George Takei ]
Tunes of Glory	(1960)
[ John Mills ]
The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks	(1959)
The Scapegoat	(1959)
Our Man in Havana	(1959)
[ Maureen O'Hara ]
The Horse's Mouth	(1958)
[ Michael Gough ]
Barnacle Bill	(1957)
[ Warren Mitchell ][ Donald Pleasence ]
The Bridge on the River Kwai	(1957)
[ William Holden ]
The Swan	(1956)
The Ladykillers	(1955)
[ Peter Sellers ][ Herbert Lom ]
The Prisoner	(1955)
Baker's Dozen	(1955)
To Paris with Love	(1955)
Father Brown	(1954)
The Captain's Paradise	(1953)
The Square Mile	(1953)
Malta Story	(1953)
The Card	(1952)
The Man in the White Suit	(1951)
[ Michael Gough ]
The Lavender Hill Mob	(1951)
[ Robert Shaw ][ Desmond Llewelyn ]
The Mudlark	(1950)
Last Holiday	(1950)
A Run for Your Money	(1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets	(1949)
Oliver Twist	(1948)
Great Expectations	(1946)
[ John Mills ]
Evensong	(1934)

While working in advertising, he studied at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, debuting on stage in 1934 and played classic theatre with the Old Vic from 1936. In 1941 he entered the Royal navy as a seaman and was commissioned the next year. Beyond an extra part in Evensong (1934), his film career began after World War II with his portrayal of Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946). A string of films, mostly comedies, showed off his ability to look different in every role -- eight of them, including a woman, in one movie alone, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). His best known recent work was as the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars (1977) trilogy. He earned a best actor Oscar and Golden Globe in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and an Honorary Academy Award (1980) for "advancing the art of screen acting through a host of memorable and distinguished performances". Academy nominations have included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (actor); The Horse's Mouth (1958) (screenplay); Star Wars (1977) (supporting) and Little Dorrit (1988) (supporting). He was knighted in 1959 for his accomplishments in theatre and film.