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Transcript: Profile: Sir Alec Guinness, one of the last ...
NPR Morning Edition;  August 7, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 00-00-0000 Profile: Sir Alec Guinness, one of the last surviving ... Soundbite from Star Wars ) Sir ALEC GUINNESS (As Obi-Wan Kenobi): Well ... HOWARD BERKES, host: Actor Alec Guinness, best known to Americans as ...

Article: ALEC GUINNESS'S GENIUS ENLIVENED MANY A MOVIE
The Boston Globe;  August 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... as the only star in "Star Wars," Alec Guinness got what most actors dream of: a percentage ... Expectations" to "Little Dorrit" - that Alec Guinness was a genius. I once heard him read ... filmed in 1960. It is quintessential Alec Guinness because he plays against type. Having ...

Article: Sir Dirk Bogarde, 'DiCaprio of his day', dies at 78
The Scotsman;  May 10, 1999 ;     487 words ... ... paid yesterday to the actor and writer Sir Dirk Bogarde, who died on Saturday after suffering ... Michael Winner, the film director, said Sir Dirk was a "gracious and charming" man who ... In films such as Doctor in the House, Sir Dirk played characters that won him a number ...

Article: Biography of Alec Guinness delivers only half the ...
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  August 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Roger Moore ``Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography ... 35) ___ Here's what Sir Alec Guinness wrote in a letter to a friend ... Paul Read. The author of ``Alec Guinness'' was handpicked by Guinness ...

Article: Alec Guinness played diverse characters to ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Alec Guinness played diverse characters to perfection ... City Star Wednesday, August 9, 2000 Alec Guinness was the difference between a great ... a Guinness movie was . . . well, Alec Guinness. The essence of movie stardom, after ...

Article: Sir Dirk reveals `living will' wishes after stroke.
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 8, 1998 ;     505 words ...Actor and writer Sir Dirk Bogarde has revealed how a massive stroke ... after being struck down two years ago. Sir Dirk has drawn up a "living will" which ... given something and put to sleep." Sir Dirk went into hospital in 1996 for minor ...

Article: Remembering Alec Guinness / Late actor left a fine ...
San Francisco Chronicle;  August 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ..."Oh, that's Alec Guinness, isn't it?" With the late Sir Alec Guinness, who died earlier this month, that was the ... above question with certainty: "Sure, that's Alec Guinness. It has to be." Over the course of 50 years ...