[ek_hornbeck]

For some reason Alec Guinness was often cast in non-European roles: among others, he also played the eccentric Brahmin professor in A Passage to India and was almost given the role of Gandhi before Ben Kingsley (real name = Krishna Bhanji) came along.

[Borges]

David Lean also made A Passage to India. He cast Guinness a lot.

[RooRoobird20]

Alec Guinness also played the part of Fagin, a Jew, in the
movie “Oliver Twist.”