Download or read book The Alec Guinness Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Alec Guinness written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 - 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. However, he was probably best known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In later years, he achieved fame with younger audiences for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy. This book is your ultimate resource for Alec Guinness. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Alec Guinness's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Alec Guinness, A Foreign Field, A Handful of Dust, A Majority of One, A Passage to India (film), A Run for Your Money, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Academy Honorary Award, An Inspector Calls, Andrew Aguecheek, Anthony Quayle, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Cromwell (film), David Lean, Dylan Thomas, Ealing Comedies, Evening Standard Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards, Fagin, Faisal I of Iraq, Father Brown, Flare Path, George Smiley, Grace Kelly, Great Expectations, Great Expectations (1946 film), Guinness family, H.M.S. Defiant, Hitler: The Last Ten Days, Hotel Paradiso (film), Jacob Marley...and more pages Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.
Download or read book Blessings in Disguise written by Nancy Mehl and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series whisks you away to the scenic hillside of Ohio's Amish country and draws you into the excitement as Cheryl and her Amish friend, Naomi, work together to solve intriguing mysteries.
Download or read book My Name Escapes Me written by Alec Guinness and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelously entertaining diary from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen. Revealing the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic, My Name Escapes Me offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.
Download or read book Alec Guinness the Unknown written by Garry O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, highly revealing biography of a great actor whose career spanned the twentieth century. Alec Guinness appeared in 77 films and 55 plays, winning acclaim for commanding roles such as Professor Marcus in The Lady Killers, Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars and George Smiley in Smiley`s People. He was an astonishingly gifted actor who became a British institution, a familiar figure to many. And yet Alec Guinness was a many-layered, complex man who was careful throughout his life to show only a little of his real self, never too much. He died with a large part of the truth still hidden. Now, for the first time, Garry O`Connor is able to reveal the full story, including startling new information on Guinness`s childhood, his secret relationships and the fears that haunted him. Backed by impeccable research, including interviews with Guinness himself as well as those close to him, this riveting biography will at last fill in the gaps, adding a new depth to our understanding not just of Guinness`s life but of his remarkable acting ability. Garry O`Connor has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, been a critic for The Times and written authoritative biographies of Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft, Ralph Richardson and Sean O`Casey.
Download or read book Alec Guinness written by Piers Paul Read and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait based on access to the late actor's personal writings offers insight into his experiences as a soldier in World War II, his stage and film achievements, and his fiercely private personal life.
Download or read book A Commonplace Book written by Alec Guinness and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The result is a charming book of wisdom and reflection, consolation and sheer pleasure, and one that offers an extraordinary insight into the mind of one of the great actors of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Alec Guinness written by Kenneth Tynan and published by London : Rockliff. This book was released on 1953 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy written by John le Carre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Smiley is assigned to uncover the identity of the double agent operating in the highest levels of British Intelligence.
Download or read book Alec Guinness 150 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Alec Guinness written by Katherine Hamilton and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Alec Guinness to the next level. This book is your ultimate resource for Alec Guinness. Here you will find the most up-to-date 150 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Alec Guinness's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Oliver Twist (1948 film), Aurra Sing - K, John Gielgud - Death and estate, Twelfth Night - Television, Maida Vale - Other notable residents, Force (Star Wars) - Depiction, Riverside Studios - History, 52nd Academy Awards - Presenters, Felicitas Corrigan, List of English people - Actors and actresses, Pierre Fresnay - Last years and death, Smiley's People - Television, Mute Witness - Cast, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi - Cast, George Smiley - Models, 52nd Academy Awards - Academy Honorary Awards, Simone Signoret - Career, Daphne du Maurier - Novels, short stories and biographies, Deauville - Deauville in the movies, Gandhi (film) - Casting, Margaretta Scott - Acting career, 73rd Academy Awards - In Memoriam, 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards - In Memoriam, Alec Guinness, Hitler: The Last Ten Days, John Dexter - Cinema, Turner Classic Movies - TCM Remembers, 1934 in film - Debuts, A Passage to India (film) - Plot, Piers Paul Read - Work, The South Bank Show - Subjects, Alec Guinness - Early career and war service, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 film), David Lean - Last years and unfulfilled projects, Last Holiday (1950 film) - Cast, Sid James - From 1947 to 1964, 1961 in film - Notable films released in 1961, Patricia Hitchcock - Career, Out-of-wedlock - Notable people, Robert Shaw (British actor) - Writing career, and much more...
Download or read book A Positively Final Appearance written by Alec Guinness and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A worthy successor to the beloved actor's earlier diary "My Name Escapes Me, " this new volume contains Sir Alec's journal from June 1996 to December 1998. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
Download or read book Alec Guinness written by Kenneth Tynan and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alec Guinness the Unknown written by Garry O'Connor and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography reveals the story of Guinness's remarkable life, including information on his childhood, his secret relationships and the fears that haunted him. It includes interviews with Guinness himself as well as those close to him.
Download or read book The Pigeon Tunnel written by John le Carré and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON’T MISS THE PIGEON TUNNEL DOCUMENTARY—IN SELECT THEATERS AND STREAMING ON AppleTV+ OCTOBER 20TH! The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies. “Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth; visiting Rwanda’s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year’s Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley’s People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carré endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer’s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.
Download or read book Monsignor Quixote written by Graham Greene and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.
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Download or read book William Shakespeare s Star Wars written by Ian Doescher and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Download or read book Browsings written by Michael Dirda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.
