Europe will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Several movie stars also contributed in different roles to ending the horrors of war.

Thankfully, John Gielgud, whom he met in 1934, disagreed and mentored the young performer in his first professional roles; by World War II, when Guinness joined the Royal Navy, he was an ...

HOUCHRON CAPTION (12/31/2000): Alec Guinness won an Oscar for his performance as Col. Nicholson, an inflexible British prisoner intent on building a World War II bridge for the enemy Japanese, in ...

A gripping, Kafkaesque, confined drama set in a nameless state sometime after World War II, The Prisoner tells the tale of an esteemed cardinal (Alec Guinness) who at the beginning of the film is ...