– Alec Guinness’ fee in 1976 (plus two percent of the producer’s profit) for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: $150,000
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $514,978.46
(Source: Piers Paul Read, Alec Guinness)
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