Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

He recorded each of them as an audiobook. Guinness was far from fluent in French and the child apparently did not notice that Guinness did not understand him but took his hand and chattered while the two strolled; the child then waved and trotted off. This made him very wealthy in his later life and he agreed to take the part of Kenobi on the condition that he would not have to do any publicity to promote the film.

Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. However he was probably best known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946) Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948) Col.