
Actor
Alec Guinness
4 films•1957–1977•Drama · War · Adventure
91%average critics92%average audience$160.9Mdomestic average
Films
4
1957–1977
Domestic
$643.7M
lifetime
Worldwide
$990.8M
lifetime
Avg opening
$388K
3-day
Avg legs
—
opening → total
Return
24.8x
on $40.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | 1977 | $1.6M | $461.0M | — | $775.4M | — | 93% | — |
Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | — | $111.9M | — | $112.1M | — | 82% | — |
Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | — | $37.5M | — | $70.0M | — | 93% | — |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | — | $33.3M | — | $33.3M | — | 96% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$250M$500M$750M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 6.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
24.8x
$990.8M worldwide on $40.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $643.7MInternational $347.1M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven22.2x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.



