Sir Alec Guinness (also spelled Guiness) is a British actor. He was born in 1914 at London. He started life as an advertising copywriter before studying acting. In the 1930s, he was in various stage productions With the Old Vic; in 1941, he joined the British navy, in which he served as an officer. After the Second World War, he began a serious film career. He soon became proficient in playing multiple roles in a single movie. In Kind Hearts and Coronets in 1949, he amazed audiences by playing eight roles, but it was as a stiff-upper-lipped British officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957 that he won an Oscar for best actor. In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his outstanding work on the stage and in movies. Research Alec Guinness
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