Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson. This character is based on real life WWII P.O.W., Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) who was a lieutenant colonel, and the senior Allied officer at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway.
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