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Star Wars

1977
as Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Empire Strikes Back

1980
as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi

Return of the Jedi

1983
as Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi

Lawrence of Arabia

1962
as Prince Feisal

Kafka

1991
as The Chief Clerk

Oliver Twist

1948
as Fagin

H.M.S. Defiant

1962
as Captain Crawford

Father Brown

1954
as Father Brown

The Captain's Paradise

1953
as Captain Henry St. James

Tales from Hollywood

1992
as Heinrich Mann

The Swan

1956
as Prince Albert

Vader Sessions

2006
as Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Comedians in Africa

1967
as Self (uncredited)

Eskimo Day

1996
as James

Our Man in Havana

1959
as Jim Wormold

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964
as Marcus Aurelius

The Gift of Friendship

1974
as Jocelyn Broome

Hotel Paradiso

1966
as Benedict Boniface

A Passage to India

1984
as Prof. Godbole

Mute Witness

1995
as The Reaper

The Ladykillers

1955
as Professor Marcus

Monsignor Quixote

1987
as Father Quixote

Smiley's People

1982
as George Smiley

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972
as Papst Innozenz III.

The Card

1952
as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin

Doctor Zhivago

1965
as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland

The Peter Sellers Story

1995
as Alec Guinness

Raise the Titanic

1980
as John Bigalow

A Handful of Dust

1988
as Mr. Todd

A Majority of One

1961
as Koichi Asano

Edwin

1984
as Sir Fennimore Truscott

Malta Story

1953
as Flight Lt. Peter Ross

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979
as George Smiley

Tweltfth Night

1969
as Malvolio

The Horse's Mouth

1958
as Gulley Jimson

The Man in the White Suit

1951
as Sidney Stratton

Last Holiday

1950
as George Bird

Little Dorrit

1987
as William Dorrit

Lovesick

1983
as Sigmund Freud

The Mudlark

1950
as Benjamin Disraeli

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne

Cromwell

1970
as King Charles I

Barnacle Bill

1957
as Captain William Horatio Ambrose

The Prisoner

1955
as The Cardinal

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

2000
as Himself (archive footage)

Murder by Death

1976
as Bensonmum

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980
as Earl of Dorincourt

Tunes of Glory

1960
as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

Great Expectations

1946
as Herbert Pocket

The Scapegoat

1959
as John Barratt / Jacques De Gue

To Paris with Love

1955
as Sir Edgar Fraser

The Comedians

1967
as Major H. O. Jones

When Star Wars Ruled the World

2004
as Obi-Wan Kenobi (archive footage)

Writer

Movie The Horse's Mouth 1958

Guest Star

Episode Tuesday Documentary
Gandhi's India
1969
Episode Screen One
A Foreign Field
1993
Episode RiffTrax
Star Wars Holiday Special
2007
Episode ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Twelfth Night
1970
Episode ITV Playhouse
The Gift of Friendship
1974