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Alec Guinness - A Secret Man

Profile of acting legend Alec Guinness, whose career spanned more than five decades, and who died three years ago at the age of 86. Best known to the younger generation as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy, Guinness started out on the stage at the age of 24, and went on to create many diverse roles such as the mild-mannered thief in classic Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, clerical sleuth Father Brown and Fagin in David Lean's Oliver Twist - not forgetting his stiff-upper-lipped officer in wartime classic The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he won an Oscar. Contributions from friends and colleagues, including John le Carre, Eileen Atkins, Ronald Harwood, Simon Callow and Corin Redgrave, are supplemented by extracts from his private journals and letters, to build an in-depth profile of the man behind the many faces