Obi-Wan Kenobi takes place ten years before the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope, starts, with Alec Guinness playing the ...

He then joins the young hero on a journey to rescue Leia. Sir Alec Guinness plays Obi-Wan in "A New Hope," and also appears as a ghost version of the character in "Star Wars: Episode V — The ...

"Alec Guinness ... Playhouse Theatre. Guinness made the transition from Shakespearean theatre to the silver screen with ease. Although he won an Oscar for The Bridge on the River Kwai, he is perhaps ...