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100 BAFTA Moments - Sir Alec Guinness receives the Academy Fellowship

28 November 2014

72 days to go - Sir Alec Guinness is presented with the Fellowship in 1989

Sir Alec Guinness featured earlier in the countdown when he won his first BAFTA in 1958 for his performance in Sir David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). 31 years later, Lean presented Guinness with the Academy Fellowship. The pair collaborated on a number of films, including Oliver Twist (1948), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and A Passage to India (1984). 

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