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Add MS 89015/7/1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002746942
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404341
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022596309.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89015/7/1/1
- Title:
- Photographs of Alec Guinness performing roles (1/2)
- Scope & Content:
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1. Print of Alec Guinness as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night at the Old Vic in 1936 alongside Laurence Olivier and with Tyrone Guthrie directing (black and white). Photograph by J.W. Debenham.
2. Print of Guinness as Duke of Aumerle on stage with John Gielgud and other unidentified actors in Richard II (1937) (black and white). On the reverse is a silver print struck through in red ink, showing Guinness in an unidentified role.
3. Print of Guinness, in make up and with a whistle, as the Fool in King Lear (1937) with Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic (black and white). On the reverse are some press cutting review of Guinness' adapation of Great Expectations, struck through in red ink.
4. Print of Guinness dressed in a seventeenth century curled wig, beauty spots and with his head sticking out of a terracotta jar, either Bob Acres from the Rivals (1939) or Snake from School for Scandal (1937) (black and white).
5. Print of Guinness as Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1938 (black and white).
6. Print of Guinness as Herbert Pocket in David Lean’s 1946 film of Great Expectations (black and white).
7. Print of Guinness as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946) with John Mills (black and white). Photo by Cyril Stanborough F.R.P.S. (black and white).
8. Print of Guinness as Garcin in Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Arts Theatre in 1947 with Donald Pleasance, directed by Peter Brook (black and white). Photograph by John Vickers.
9. Print of Guinness as Garcin, sitting opposite a woman, in Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Arts Theatre in 1947 (black and white). Photograph by John Vickers.
10. Print of Guinness as Sidney Stratton, in The Man in the White Suit, directed by Alexander Mackendrik 1951 (black and white).
11. Print of Guinness as the title character in Richard III, directed by Tyrone Guthrie in Stratford, Ontario 1952 (black and white). Photographer by Peter Smith & Company.
12. Mounted print of Guinness as Richard III in the Stratford 1953 production (black and white).
13. Print of Guinness as Denry Machin with Glynis Johns, in Victorian swimwear, in the film The Card (1952) by Arnold Bennett, directed by Ronald Neame (black and white). Photograph by Ian Jeayes.
14. Print of Guinness in the film The Card with Glynis Johns and Petula Clarke, directed by Ronald Neame (black and white). Photograph by Ian Jeayes.
15. Print of Guinness as Flt. Lieutenant Petter Ross in A Malta Story (1953) with Muriel Pavlow (black and white).
16. Print of Guinness as Flt. Lieutenant Petter Ross in A Malta Story with Muriel Pavlow (black and white).
17. Print of Guinness in Under the Sycamore Tree (1953/4) at the Aldwych Theatre with Diana Churchill (black and white). Photograph by Time Life International Ltd.
18. Print of Guinness in Under The Sycamore Tree at the Aldwych Theatre, 1953, with Diana Churchill, directed by Peter Glenville (large black and white).
19. Print of Guinness as the Cardinal in The Prisoner (1954) at the Globe Theatre, laughing with Noel Williams, directed Peter Glenville (black and white).
20. Print of Guinness as the Cardinal, smoking, in The Prisoner by Bridget Boland at the Globe Theatre 1954 with Noel Williams.
21. Print of Alec Guinness as the Cardinal in The Prisoner by Bridget Boland at the Globe Theatre 1954 with Noel Williams (black and white).
22. Print of Alec Guinness as Herr Frick in film Situation Hopeless, 1954, Germany, photo of the make up test - not his final appearance (black and white).
23. Print, stuck on card, of Alec Guinnes as Herr Frick in Situation Hopeless (1954),
24. on the reverse, another print of Herr Frick looking over a wall (large black and white).
25. Print, on card, of Guinness as Herr Frick with Diana Churchill,
26. on the reverse, a print of Guinness as Herr Frick with a swan (large black and white).
27. Print, stuck on card, of Guinness as Herr Frick in the rain,
28. on the reverse, a print of another unidentified man (large black and white).
29. Print of Guinness running with a ball in his hands [most likely as Col. Sir Edgar Fraser in To Paris with Love 1955] (black and white).
30. Print of Guinness as Prince Albert with Grace Kelly in The Swan 1956 (black and white).
31. Print of Louis Jourdan, Alec Guinness and Grace Kelly in The Swan (black and white).
32. Print from the film Barnacle Bill (1957) with Alec Guinness as Captain William Horatio Ambrose and Percy Herbert as Tommy (black and white).
33. Print of Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 (colour).
34. Print from the film The Horse’s Mouth (1958) with Alec Guinness as Maler Gully Jimson and Michael Gough as Abel (black and white).
35. Print of Guinness as Gulley Jimson in The Horse’s Mouth, directed by Ronald Neame (large black and white).
36. Print of Guinness as Mjr. Jock Sinclair scratching his head, in Tunes of Glory (1960) directed by Ronald Neame (black and white).
37. Print of Guinness as Mjr. Jock Sinclair, in Tunes of Glory (1960) directed by Ronald Neame (black and white).
38. Print of Guinness as Mjr. Jock Sinclair, in Tunes of Glory (1960) directed by Ronald Neame (black and white).
39. Print from the set of Tunes of Glory (1960), cast all dressed in kilts.
40. Print of Guinness as Captain Crawford, in HMS Defiant, 1962 (black and white).
41. Print of Guinness as Captain Crawford, in HMS Defiant, 1962 (black and white).
42. Print of Guinness as Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean (large black and white).
43. Print of Guinness as Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (large black and white).
44. Print of an army camp in the desert [likely to be from the set of Lawrence of Arabia], with men on horses (large black and white).
45. Print of Guinness as Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964 (large black and white).
46. Print of Guinness as Monsieur Boniface in Hotel Paradiso, dancing with Gina Lollobridgia, directed by Peter Glenville, 1965 (large black and white).
47. Print of Guinness as Monsieur Boniface in Hotel Paradiso (1966) with Gina Lollobrigidia and directed by Peter Glenville (large black and white).
48. Print of Guinness as King Charles I in Cromwell, 1970 (large black and white).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404341
036-002558653
037-003257442
040-002746942 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89015 : Sir Alec Guinness Archive
Add MS 89015/7 : Photographs and artworks
Add MS 89015/7/1 : Photographs of Alec Guinness performing roles
Add MS 89015/7/1/1 : Photographs of Alec Guinness performing roles (1/2) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404341[0007]/036-002558653[0002]/037-003257442[0001]/040-002746942
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89015
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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48 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1936
- End Date:
- 1993
- Date Range:
- 1936-1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Print numbers 2-6, 9, 12, 29, 38-39, 43-45, 53, 55, 62, 88-95 were previously in frames.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)