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...twelve he was transferred to Roborough, a somewhat better-known school, where the dramatic society specialized in Gilbert & Sullivan. Since Alec could not (and still cannot) carry a tune, he shifted scenery. One day he ventured to say he wanted to be an actor. One of the masters sadly shook his head. "You'll never make an actor, Guinness...
Alec had no histrionic forebears and no early encouragement. But "Somehow," he says, "I always knew I wanted to be an actor." Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
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