Academy Award (1980) • Academy Award (1958) • Academy Award (1958): Actor in a Leading Role • Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1980) • Golden Globe Award (1958): Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama • Tony Award (1964): Best Actor in a Play
Married To
Merula Salaman (married 1938)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)
"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) • "Malta Story" (1953) • "ITV Playhouse" (1974) • "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) • "The Mudlark" (1950) • "Mute Witness" (1995) • "Great Expectations" (1946) • "A Passage to India" (1984) • "All at Sea" (1957) • "Tunes of Glory" (1960) • "The Captain's Paradise" (1953) • "Performance" (1992) • "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) • "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951) • "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977) • "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) • "Cromwell" (1970) • "Little Dorrit" (1987) • "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi" (1983) • "Smiley's People" (1982) • "The Swan" (1956) • "Lovesick" (1983) • "The Scapegoat" (1959) • "Father Brown" (1954) • "The Card" (1952) • "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964) • "Our Man in Havana" (1959) • "Last Holiday" (1950) • "Oliver Twist" (1948) • "Thirty-Minute Theatre" (1969) • "Hotel Paradiso" (1966) • "The Comedians" (1967) • "ITV Sunday Night Theatre" (1970) • "The Ladykillers" (1955) • "Raise the Titanic" (1980) • "Murder by Death" (1976) • "A Handful of Dust" (1988) • "Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious" (1965) • "A Run for Your Money" (1949) • "The Quiller Memorandum" (1966) • "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (1972) • "Scrooge" (1970) • "A Majority of One" (1961) • "The Horse's Mouth" (1958) • "H.M.S. Defiant" (1962) • "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949) • "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1979) • "Great Performances" (1987) • "The Prisoner" (1955) • "Screen One" (1993) • "Startime" (1959) • "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) • "To Paris with Love" (1955) • "Hitler: The Last Ten Days" (1973) • "Kafka" (1991)
Movies/Tv Shows (Writing/Creator)
"The Horse's Mouth" (1958)
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