Everybody has one, and in every case it's "Alec Guinness from Star Wars"
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Alec Baldwin is the best Jack Ryan because he really sells “I’m in over my head,” which is an essential part of the character. I said what I said!
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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How many folks know Alec Guinness only as Obi Wan? He was knighted almost two decades before it came out.
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Fair point.
All five of these guys were Best Actor Oscar winners long before I knew them as:
Ernest Borgnine from McHale's Navy
Spencer Tracy from It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Yul Brynner from Westworld
Charlton Heston from Planet of the Apes
Alec Guinness from Star Wars
All five of these guys were Best Actor Oscar winners long before I knew them as:
Ernest Borgnine from McHale's Navy
Spencer Tracy from It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Yul Brynner from Westworld
Charlton Heston from Planet of the Apes
Alec Guinness from Star Wars
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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That’s like “Alec Guiness, the guy who played the old version of Obi Won Kenobi.”
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Would Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan count or is that role too big to be subsumed by a career
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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@guidingbolt.bsky.social i swear alec i can stare at this piece for hours still all these months later like my GOD you nailed their vibe and im cry>????
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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The original I think would be “Alec Guinness from Star Wars”
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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alec baldwin will always be the thomas the tank engine narrator to me im sorry
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The (movie) Our Man in Havana 720p (Prime)(UK) £2.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 7.3 Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward, Ralph Richardson
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Tired: Alec Guinness in Star Wars
Wired: Jimmy Smits in Star Wars
Wired: Jimmy Smits in Star Wars
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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I may be the only person I know who doesn't think of Alec Guinness as the guy who played Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Part 3! Yuki-Sly and Ghost!Alec
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Alec Guinness in STAR WARS, of course
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The epitome of this phenomenon is Sir Alec Guinness
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Everyone says, "Sir Alec Guiness, the actor who played Obi Wan Kenobi."
(I haven't seen Bridge on the River Kwai, but I have seen Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.)
(I haven't seen Bridge on the River Kwai, but I have seen Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.)
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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If George Lucas gotten his original request, “Alec Guinness, that guy from Star Wars” would have been “Toshiro Mifune, that guy from Star Wars.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Also, other people mentioned it but I couldn’t name you a single thing Alec Guinness was in besides Star Wars
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Really the ur-case of this is Alec Guinness in Star Wars. He had a long, accomplished career of varied, celebrated roles, and for the last 20ish years of his life he hated how Obi-Wan overshadowed the rest of his work, even as he appreciated it paying the bills.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Alec Guinness? From Star Wars?
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Alec Guinness from Star Wars
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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A George Alec Effinger story where he gets in a taxi to cross the road, because he wants to join the other side.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I mean, “Sir Alec Guinness, that guy from Star Wars” is the nigh-ubiquitous entry here for much of Gen X.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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