Alec Guinness died

I just heard that Alec Guinness (Obi Wan) passed away at age 86.

He was a good actor but I was always annoyed at how he hated Star Wars fans.

Wow.

He's one of those people you just don't think could die. He's my favorite actor and his work, especially Bridge on the River Kwai, has really effected me and sometimes the way I see the world. I really can't believe he could have died.

(But don't worry, when he died he became more powerful than you could possibly imagine! )

Yes, I just found out about this a minute ago and was about to start a topic. In a way, this is a tradgedy, (although he had to die sometime...he was old) he really didn't like SW too much.

<a href=#><font size=7></a>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!<a href=#></font></a>

That's really sad, even though i only saw 2 movies with him - SW & Kwai. He was great in both.

I've seen several movies with him - the three SW movies he was in, River Kwai, Zhivago and Lawrence... ALL of them wonderful and absolutely classic, and a 10/10 for me...

Oh yeah, there was Raise the Titanic but that doesn't count.

This was the first thing I heard this morning. It´s really sad. He was a truly great actor.

yes, it's very sad.

i think his words about fans and advising children not to see SW has been taken out of context. i don't believe he hated SW, he just didn't understand that because of Star Wars the young people closed his mind to other good films/books.

Actually he did hate Star Wars. In fact that is one of the reasons ObiWan was killed in the first Star Wars... because he didn't want to be in any more of the movies. Ironic that that is what he will be remembered for.
But whether or not he was proud of his greatest achievement, he was a great actor, and by all accounts a good man, and he will be missed.

actually, whe he "died" in ANH, there wasn't yet a neat possibility of making a trilogy...

and besides, Alec DID appear in the three movies

Actually the possibility of sequals was always there in the original Star Wars, they were planning on it, and Guinness wanted to limit his role as much as possible, probably because he was under contract. So even though he was in the other two movies, he had very small parts.

He was a stupendous actor and, from what I have read, a wonderfully, normal human being. I'm much impressed by long marriages and he and his wife were married in 1938.