Alec guinness biography audiobook

Alec Guinness. The Authorised Biography. Simon & Schuster.

John Casson.

John Casson.

'Blessings in Disguise', which was originally published in , is Sir Alec s autobiography.

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Author Alec Guinness.

MY NAME ESCAPES ME. by Alec Guinness | Read by Alec Guinness.

London, 2003

Alec Guinness, one of the pre-eminent English-speaking actors of his generation, was the illegitimate son of a flighty, alcoholic mother who refused to name his father. She gave him the name Guinness, and members of the brewing dynasty later liked to claim kinship, but it is more probable that his natural father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, who had been a guest of the Guinness family at the Cowes regatta at around the time of Alec’s conception.

Living as a child in over thirty different locations, Guinness received a private education. While working in an advertising agency he trained as an actor and was given the part of Oscric in Hamlet by John Gielgud.

His talent was quickly recognised on both the stage and the screen. Under the direction of David Lean, he played Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations, Fagin in Oliver Twist and later Colonel Nicholson in Bridge on the Rive