Guinness played nine different characters in one movie alone. He was almost a proto-Oldman in his chameleon style.
He had less gravitas than Olivier.
Although even Olivier would say that Cushing was the best film actor he knew.
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Frankenstein
