Original Alec Guinness Movie Posters

Alec Guinness movie posters are among the most varied and distinguished in British cinema — spanning Ealing comedies, David Lean epics, and Star Wars — a performer of extraordinary range and intellectual precision who moved between classical theatrical performance and popular entertainment with equal distinction, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor and becoming, in his final decade, an icon to an entirely new generation of filmgoers.

Guinness's work with David Lean produced some of the greatest films in British cinema history. Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948) established the collaboration. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) brought him the Oscar, his Colonel Nicholson — a study in principled self-destruction — one of the great screen performances. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) added another iconic portrait. The Ealing comedies — particularly Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he plays eight members of the same aristocratic family — represent perhaps his most technically extraordinary work.

Then came Star Wars (1977). As Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guinness brought classical gravitas to a role he reportedly found somewhat baffling, earning royalties he hadn't anticipated and an entirely new global audience. His theatrical materials therefore span the full range of mid-twentieth-century film advertising: Lean's epics, Ealing comedies, and the biggest franchise in cinema history.

Find original theatrical prints from across his remarkable and varied career.

Browse alongside Star Wars posters and Oscar-winning film posters. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.