Sean Connery
Scottish actor (1930-2020) · United Kingdom · Actors · Died at 90
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Something wrong?He turned a pulp spy into a global phenomenon: the first man to play James Bond on screen, setting a template for cool that seven films and forty years of imitators never quite erased.
A life in dates
The League of Extraordinary GentlemenFilm, Producer2000Knight BachelorAward1999Kennedy Center HonorsAward
EntrapmentFilm, 1999Producer1998Golden LionAward
ParkinsonSeries, 19981997MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen DuoAward1996
DragonHeartFilm, Draco (voice)1995Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward1992
Medicine ManFilm, Producer1990
The Hunt for Red OctoberFilm, Capt. 1st Marko Ramius1988Academy AwardsAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureAward1987“There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”In their wordsDecember 1987Interview with Barbara Walters (December 1987).Commandeur des Arts et des LettresAwardKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorAwardKnight of the Legion of HonourAwardNational Board of Review Award for Best Supporting ActorAward
The Dame Edna ExperienceSeries, 1987
The UntouchablesFilm, 1987Jim Malone1983
Never Say Never AgainFilm, James Bond1978
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries
The First Great Train RobberyFilm, 1978Edward Pierce1976
Robin and MarianFilm, Robin Hood1974
Dinah!Series
Murder on the Orient ExpressFilm, 1974Colonel Arbuthnot1971Henrietta AwardAward1969
ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries, MacNeil1968
ShalakoFilm, Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin1964“I suppose more than anything else I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.”In their words6 June 1964Interview in the Saturday Evening Post (6 June 1964).
GoldfingerFilm, 1964James Bond1962
Dr. NoFilm, James Bond1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1958
A Night to RememberFilm, Deckhand (uncredited)1955
Dixon of Dock GreenSeries, Joe Brasted1953
The OscarsSeries1950
Sunday Night TheatreSeries, Mountain McClintock1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1930Born25 August 1930Also in Deutsch
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Sean Connery plaque near the site of his birth in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Connery's birth certificate
Connery with Lana Turner in 1957 on the set of Another Time, Another Place
Connery as Bond (with his co-star Tania Mallet) while filming Goldfinger in 1964
Connery during filming for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971
Connery in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964)
Connery with Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian (1976)In their own words 3
, My start, my childhood, was less than auspicious. But when I was young, we didn’t know we lacked anything, because we had nothing to compare it to - and there's a freedom in that.
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
I suppose more than anything else I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.
Filmography 40
TGThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
FFFinding ForresterENEntrapment
PHPlaying by Heart
TAThe Avengers
TRThe RockDRDragonHeart
FKFirst Knight
RSRising SunMMMedicine Man
RTRobin Hood: Prince of Thieves
HQHighlander II: The QuickeningTOThe Hunt for Red October
ICIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
FBFamily BusinessTUThe Untouchables
TRThe Name of the Rose
HIHighlanderNANever Say Never Again
OUOutland
TBTime Bandits
MEMeteorTRThe First Great Train Robbery
AFA Bridge Too FarRMRobin and Marian
TKThe Man Who Would Be King
TLThe Wind and the LionMEMurder on the Orient Express
DFDiamonds Are Forever
TTThe Anderson TapesSHShalako
YTYou Only Live Twice
THThunderball
MAMarnieGOGoldfinger
FLFrom Russia with Love
TDThe Longest DayDNDr. No
DPDarby O'Gill and the Little PeopleARA Night to Remember192 credits on file
Television 24
PAParkinson
TLThe Tonight Show with Jay LenoTEThe Dame Edna ExperienceTHThe Kennedy Center Honors
CCCérémonie des CésarDIDinah!ITITV Saturday Night Theatre
OMOmnibus
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TSThe Merv Griffin ShowTSThe Mike Douglas Show
TATony AwardsDGDixon of Dock Green
TDThe Wonderful World of DisneyTOThe Oscars
WLWhat's My Line?
TPThe Jack Benny ProgramSTSunday Night Theatre
BABambi
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born in Edinburgh in 1930, Connery originated the role of 007 in Dr. No (1962) and carried the franchise through six Eon productions - From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever - before returning once more in Never Say Never Again (1983). Beyond Bond he worked steadily for Hitchcock, Lumet, and Huston, appearing in Marnie, The Hill, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Man Who Would Be King. Later roles stretched from Highlander and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to The Hunt for Red October and The Rock. His turn as a Chicago cop in The Untouchables won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1987, making him the first Scot to take home a major Academy Award. He died in October 2020, knighted and garlanded, half a century after walking onto that Jamaican beach.
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