Alec Guinness Articles

Can You Identify Famous Film Voices?

11.12.12 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Alec Guinness, Anne Bancroft, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Peter Sellers, Rita Hayworth | 3 comments

In today’s guest post, reader Jack Ralph asks if you can identify film stars just by the sound of their voice: Many movie and television fans can identify a great number of performers by name immediately by viewing the performers,…

Alec Guinness: Britain’s Man of a Thousand Faces

02.25.11 | Jay Steinberg | Tags: Alec Guinness | 14 comments

Roundly acknowledged as one of the British stage’s most versatile and skilled performers of the 20th century, this onetime copywriter left behind one of cinema’s most diverse galleries of nuanced and memorable characterizations. Born to poverty in London in 1914,…