Born
25 August 1930 (95)
Place of Birth
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as
Sir Sean Connery, Thomas Sean Connery
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 ...
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.
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
The Sean Connery Paradox
2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Rat Pack
2022
HyperNormalisation
2016
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Spanish Western
2015
We're Nothing Like James Bond
2012
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
Everything or Nothing
2012
Close Up
2012
The World Of Bond
2012
Ever to Excel
2012
Sir Billi
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
2008
Being a Scot
2008
On Tour with the Aston Martin DB5
2006
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
The Untouchables: Production Stories
2004
The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast
2004
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
2004
Mr. Connery Goes to Hollywood
2004
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
2000
Finding Forrester
2000
Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
2000
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
Inside 'Dr. No'
2000
The James Bond Story
1999
Entrapment
1999
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
Playing by Heart
1998
Junket Whore
1998