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Favorite Performance (Besides Obi-Wan)?

posted 5 years ago by Moviebuff1 (2835)
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For me, it's Col. Nicholson from The Bridge on the River Kwai.

My fav actor of all time , I adore watching him, for me Professor Marcus in the Lady Killers

Seconded! Ladykillers was such a wonderful performance! He managed to be both mannered and menacing, a strange, quirky, funny character who was also evil and terrifying.

[–] PaladinNJ (20307) 5 years ago

That’s like picking your favorite star in the sky

[–] Cristianos (265) 5 years ago

Col. Nicholson from The Bridge on the River Kwai

[–] TrentnQuarantino (8391) 4 months ago

I'd have to go with that as well.
My blood pressure still goes up when I think of that crazy Colonel.

[–] sslssg (27397) 5 years ago

I really have a soft spot for Bensonmum in Murder by Death (1976) because it was the my first exposure to him in a comedic role as I had only seen him in Star Wars and Dr Zhivago at that point.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Lady Killers for me.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

The deliciously wicked "Kind Hearts and Coronets", of course!

Guiness played five or six different roles, a whole family of aristocrats. Who happened to be in someone,'s way.

[–] rudeboymurray (3241) 4 years ago

As the nine members of the D'Ascoyne family in Kind Hearts and Coronets. His Scottish major in Tunes of Glory is another favourite.

...but I can watch Guinness in anything. One of the greatest of all screen actors.

[–] TheGreatBambino (207) 2 years ago

George Smiley in the BBC adaptations of John Le Carre novels.