Sir Alec Guinness.(Brief Article)(Obituary)

The Economist (US) | August 12, 2000 | Copyright

Sir Alec Guinness, a chameleonic actor, died on August 5th, aged 86

ON HIS very occasional returns to the stage from the screen, Sir Alec Guinness liked to say how nice it was to be back in the profession after spending so much time in the industry. Yet it is not as an actor in the theatre but as a film star that he will be best remembered.

On the London stage he belonged in the first rather than the premier division, and he knew it. Writing in the third person in his memoirs, he conceded that as an actor "he [Guinness] is not in the same class as Olivier, ...

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