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Sir Alec Guinness Dies at 86

NPR

Published August 6, 2000 at 9:00 PM PDT

One of the last surviving members of Britain's greatest generation of actors has died. Sir Alec Guinness the man of a thousand faces, died at the age of 86 after a career that spanned more than 60 years.