Sean Connery
- Acting
- August 25, 1930 · Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- October 31, 2020
Biography
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
Known for
Filmography
- Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford · Self
- MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema · Self
- Prins Bernhard · Self
- The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall · Self
- The Sean Connery Paradox · Self
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose · Self
- Rat Pack · Self
- The Real Hunt for Red October · Self
- Mein Name ist Connery, Sean Connery · Self
- HyperNormalisation · Self
- Sean Connery: In His Own Words · Self
- Spanish Western · Self
- Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka · Self
- We're Nothing Like James Bond · Self
- Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars · Self
- Everything or Nothing · Self
- Close Up · Self
- The World Of Bond · Self
- Ever to Excel · Self
- Sir Billi · Sir Billi (Voice)
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · (archive footage)
- Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
- Hollywood sul Tevere
- Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner · Self
- Being a Scot · Sean Connery
- On Tour with the Aston Martin DB5
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood · Self
- The Untouchables: Production Stories · Self
- The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast · Self
- Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express' · Self
- Mr. Connery Goes to Hollywood · Self
- Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy · Self
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen · Allan Quatermain, Executive producer
- Gio
- Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn · James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Finding Forrester · William Forrester, Producer
- Inside 'You Only Live Twice' · Self
- Inside 'From Russia with Love' · Self
- The Trouble with 'Marnie' · Self
- Inside 'Dr. No' · Self
- The James Bond Story · Self
- Rangers: The Treble- Official Season Reviews 1998/99
- Entrapment · Robert 'Mac' MacDougal, Producer
- Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 · Self
- Playing by Heart · Paul
- Junket Whore · Self
- Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery · Self
- The Avengers · Sir August de Wynter
- Parkinson · Self
- The Secrets of 007 · Self
- Rangers Fc: Seasons to Be Cheerful · Self
- Scene by Scene · Self
- Waiting for Gascoigne: The Story of a Legend
- The Rock · John Patrick Mason, Executive producer
- DragonHeart · Draco (Voice)
- Sad? · James Bond (archive footage)
- In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross · Self / James Bond
- First Knight · Arthur
- Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' · Self
- Just Cause · Paul Armstrong, Producer
- Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' · Self
- A Good Man in Africa · Dr. Alex Murray
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered · Self
- Rising Sun · Capt. John Connor, Executive producer
- Sean Connery: Private · Self
- Meridian: The First Ten Minutes · Self
- 30 Years of James Bond · Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Medicine Man · Dr. Robert Campbell, Executive producer
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves · King Richard (uncredited)
- Sean Connery Documentary · Sean Connery
- Highlander II: The Quickening · Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
- The Russia House · Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
- The Hunt for Red October · Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
- Family Business · Jessie McMullen
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · Professor Henry Jones
- Memories of Me · Sean Connery (uncredited)
- The Presidio · Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
- The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen · Self