Article: Guinness among Britain's greatest actors

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

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