* 1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor ( d. 2000 )

They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

* 1964: Dylan, a Broadway play by Sidney Michaels, starring Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas and Kate Reid as Caitlin.

Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Alec Guinness ) explains that the Galactic Empire had all but exterminated the Jedi some twenty years before the events of the film, and seeks to train Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) to be the Order's last hope.

His first major comedy role was in The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ): with Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.

* Alec Guinness

* July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut.

Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness ( Best Actor ) and David Lean ( Best Director ), among others.

It is banned for 3 years in the U. S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* December 10 – David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia, featuring Peter O ' Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Anthony Quinn premieres in London.

* September 23 – Alec Guinness meets the actor James Dean.

* Robert Hamer, film director and screenwriter, known for his 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Dennis Price and Alec Guinness, was born in Kidderminster on 31 March 1911.

Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.

* Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal.

Alec Guinness recounted that Hawkins was reprimanded by Lean for celebrating the end of a day's filming with an impromptu dance.

Alec Guinness would play the role on stage.

For a time, Lean was interested in a biopic of Gandhi, with Alec Guinness to play the title role and Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay, but Lean eventually lost interest in the project.

He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth, which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role.

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

Steiger, the only American in the cast of that film, was initially apprehensive about working with such great British actors as Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness and was afraid that he would stick out, but he won acclaim for his performance.

When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.

His lips were bruised and swollen where Alec had hit him.

Only that curious, animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.

In a One-Day International cricket match in the late 1990s, the behaviour of Bay 13 was so bad that Shane Warne had to enter the ground from his dressing rooms and tell the crowd to settle down at the request of opposing England captain Alec Stewart.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.

The CIA Bangkok station told Alec Station that Hazmi had gone to Los Angeles.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

Reportedly, her first extramarital affair took place in 1966, with her daughter's godfather, Bordeaux wine producer Anthony Barton, and a year later she had a one-month liaison with Robin Douglas-Home, a nephew of British politician Alec Douglas-Home.

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert ( 1915 – 1994 ), and a younger sister, Mary Edith ( 1923 – 2005 ).

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( who had only been in power for 12 months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan ) called a general election.

In 1963, Gilmour offered the editorship to Iain Macleod, the politician who had recently resigned his cabinet seat in objection to the controversial appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.

Sometimes called ' The Great Procrastinator ’, because of his tendency to leave writing leaders until the last minute, Lawson had been City editor for The Sunday Telegraph and Sir Alec Douglas-Home ’ s personal assistant during the 1964 general election.

As Collins had destroyed the status quo of the series, Morrison sought to shake the book up with a four-part storyline which had Swamp Thing plunged into a nightmarish dream-world scenario where he was split into two separate beings: Alec Holland and Swamp Thing, which was now a mindless being of pure destruction.

Swamp Thing now believed himself to be Nekron, similar to how he had once believed himself to be Alec Holland.

The first issue featured Dr. Alec Holland, who had been resurrected as a human with only memories of his time as a plant elemental.

The new Swamp Thing ( a resurrected Alec Holland ) has not only been given the full Elemental powers his predecessor once had, but also a White Lantern Power Ring with full control over its power.