Sir Alec Guinness
With a distinguished career that spanned six decades, the late English actor Sir Alec Guinness is today best remembered internationally for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Born in 1914 into rather unusual circumstances for the time, the identity of the young Alec’s father was forever a mystery, although the inclusion of the name ‘Guinness’ on his birth certificate by his mother, Agnes de Cuffe, led many to speculate that his father was a member of the Irish brewing dynasty of the same name.