Which Ealing comedy featured Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Sid James and Stanley Holloway as a gang of crooks?
Sid James dramas. He played the alcoholic hero's barman in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Small Back Room" (1949). His first major comedy role was in "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951): with Alfie Bass, he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway. In the same year, he also appeared in "Lady Godiva Rides Again" and "The Galloping Major". In 1953, he appeared as Harry Hawkins in "The Titfield Thunderbolt", and also had a major, starring role in "The Wedding of Lilli Marlene". In 1956, he appeared in "Trapeze" (1956) as Harry the snake charmer, a
Alec Guinness Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including "The Ladykillers" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in "Great Expectations" (1946), Fagin in "Oliver Twist" (1948), Col. Nicholson in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in "Lawrence of Arabia"