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Article: Guinness among Britain's greatest actors
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- August 7, 2000
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Guinness among Britain's greatest actors
His 66-year career included movies as different as `River Kwai'
and `Star Wars'
By AUDREY WOODS
Associated Press
Monday, August 7, 2000
London -- Actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in a 66-year career
ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," has died, a
hospital spokeswoman said early today. He was 86.
Guinness became ill at his home near Petersfield in southern
England and was taken by ambulance to King Edward VII Hospital, where