Sean Connery
AKA: Sir Sean Connery
Birthday: 1930-08-25
Died: 2020-10-31
Birthplace: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Home Page:
http://www.seanconnery.com
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
Filmography
Character: Professor Henry Jones
Character: William of Baskerville
Character: Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Character: William Forrester
Character: Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
Character: Marshal William T. O'Niel
Character: Jessie McMullen
Character: Robert "Mac" MacDougal
Character: Colonel Arbuthnot
Character: Anthony Richmond
Character: Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
Character: The Green Knight
Character: Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
Character: Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
Character: Capt. John Connor
Character: King Richard (uncredited)
Character: Roald Amundsen
Character: Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
Character: Allan Quatermain
Character: Paul Armstrong
Character: Dr. Robert Campbell
Character: Detective Sergeant Johnson
Character: Sir August de Wynter
Character: John Patrick Mason
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Dr. Alex Murray
Character: King Agamemnon / Fireman
Character: Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
Character: Maj. Robert Dapes
Character: Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
Character: Michael MacBride
Character: Samson Shillitoe
Character: Col. Nils Tahlvik
Character: Commentator (voice)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Khalil Abdul-Muhsen
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Douglas Meredith
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Sir Billi (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self / James Bond
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Count Alexei Vronsky
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self / James Bond (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock
Character: James Bond (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Character: Alexander, King of Macedon
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Michael MacBride
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Deckhand (uncredited)
Character: Narrator (voice)