FrameThrower · Actors · Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness
6 films · 387 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–1991
Born 2 April 1914 · Marylebone, London, England, UK · died 5 August 2000
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE 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 most well 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 387 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–1991
- Academy Award for Best Actor1958
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1957
- BAFTA Fellowship1989
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor1983
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor1980
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1964
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire1955
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award1996
- Companion of Honour1994
- honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge1991
- Society of London Theatre Special Award1988
How their films are shot
Measured across 387 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alec takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Alec takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 387 frames from Alec Guinness's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.