In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife.

Actor                          

Selected Works:

Evensong - 1934
Great Expectations - Herbert Pocket - 1946
Oliver Twist - Fagin - 1948
Kind Hearts and Coronets -The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry, Lady Agatha - 1949
A Run for Your Money - Whimple - 1949
Last Holiday - George Bird - 1950	
The Mudlark - Benjamin Disraeli - 1950

The Lavender Hill Mob - Henry Holland - 1951	Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor

The Man in the White Suit	 - Sidney Stratton - 1951
The Card - Edward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin - 1952
The Square Mile	narrator	short subject - 1953
Malta Story -Flight Lt. Peter Ross - 1953
The Captain's Paradise - Capt. Henry St. James - 1953
Father Brown - Father Brown - 1953
The Stratford Adventure	Himself - short subject - 1954
Rowlandson's England -narrator	short subject - 1955
To Paris with Love - Col. Sir Edgar Fraser - 1955
The Prisoner - The Cardinal - 1955
The Ladykillers - Professor Marcus - 1955
The Swan - Prince Albert - 1956

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Col. Nicholson - 1957 - Academy Award for Best Actor

Barnacle Bill - Captain William Horatio Ambrose - released in the US as All at Sea - 1957

The Horse's Mouth - Gulley Jimson - 1958 - Also writer
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay

Our Man in Havana - Jim Wormold - 1959
The Scapegoat - John Barratt/Jacques De Gue - 1959
Tunes of Glory - Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. - 1960
A Majority of One - Koichi Asano - 1962
HMS Defiant - Captain Crawford - 1962
Lawrence of Arabia - Prince Feisal	 - 1962
The Fall of the Roman Empire - Marcus Aurelius - 1964
Pasternak - Himself - short subject - 1965
Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious - Wilhelm Frick - 1965
Doctor Zhivago - Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago - 1965
Hotel Paradiso - Benedict Boniface - 1966
The Quiller Memorandum	 - Pol - 1966
The Comedians in Africa - Himself, uncredited, short subject - 1967
The Comedians - Major H.O. Jones - 1967
Cromwell - King Charles I - 1970
Scrooge	 - Jacob Marley’s ghost - 1970
Brother Sun, Sister Moon	Pope Innocent III - 1972
Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Adolf Hitler - 1973
Murder by Death	Jamesir Bensonmum - 1976

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi	Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - 1977

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - George Smiley - 1979
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi - 1980
Raise the Titanic	 - John Bigalow - 1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Earl of Dorincourt - 1980
Smiley's People - George Smiley - 1982
Lovesick	 - Sigmund Freud - 1983
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi - Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi - 1983
1A Passage to India - Professor Godbole - 1984

Little Dorrit - William Dorrit - 1988 - Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
A Handful of Dust - Mr. Todd - 1988
Kafka - The Chief Clerk - 1991
A Foreign Field - Amos - 1993
Mute Witness - The Reaper - 1994
Eskimo Day - James - 1996.
                          

Mother Agnes de Cuffe
Father
Wife Merula Salaman (1914–2000) in 1938, one son, Matthew.