
Sean Connery
Known for Acting · 175 credits
- Born
- 1930-08-25
- Died
- 2020-10-31
- Place of birth
- Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Sir Sean Connery · Thomas Sean Connery · ショーン・コネリー · Σον Κόνερι · Τόμας Σον Κόνερι · Σερ Σον Κόνερι
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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self / Self - Co-Host

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
TV Shows (32)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self / Self - Co-Host

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner

Omnibus
1967
as Self

Bambi
1948
as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Dinah!
1974
as Self

The Jack Benny Program
1950
as Porter
Film '72
1971
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self

Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Mountain McClintock

Parkinson
1998
as Self

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as MacNeil

Dixon of Dock Green
1955
as Joe Brasted

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Michael MacBride
Na sowas!
1982
as Self

Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - President

Scene by Scene
1997
as Self

Reflets de Cannes
1954
as Self

An Age of Kings
1960
as Hotspur

The Dame Edna Experience
1987
as Self
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self

Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Achmed

Armchair Theatre
1956

Male of the Species
1969
as MacNeil

The Real Hunt for Red October
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Movies (143)

Dr. No
1962
as James Bond

The Rock
1996
as John Patrick Mason

Highlander
1986
as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Professor Henry Jones

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
as King Richard (uncredited)

Goldfinger
1964
as James Bond

From Russia with Love
1963
as James Bond

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius

Thunderball
1965
as James Bond

The Untouchables
1987
as Jim Malone

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003
as Allan Quatermain

You Only Live Twice
1967
as James Bond

The Longest Day
1962
as Pvt. Flanagan

Entrapment
1999
as Robert 'Mac' MacDougal

The Name of the Rose
1986
as William of Baskerville

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Colonel Arbuthnot

A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart

Diamonds Are Forever
1971
as James Bond

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)

Never Say Never Again
1983
as James Bond

First Knight
1995
as Arthur

DragonHeart
1996
as Draco (voice)

Finding Forrester
2000
as William Forrester

Outland
1981
as Marshal William T. O'Niel

The First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Edward Pierce

The Presidio
1988
as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell

Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez

Shalako
1968
as Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin

Just Cause
1995
as Paul Armstrong

Time Bandits
1981
as King Agamemnon / Fireman

Marnie
1964
as Mark Rutland

Playing by Heart
1998
as Paul

Meteor
1979
as Paul Bradley

The Avengers
1998
as Sir August de Wynter

A Night to Remember
1958
as Deckhand (uncredited)

Medicine Man
1992
as Dr. Robert Campbell

Rising Sun
1993
as Capt. John Connor

Zardoz
1974
as Zed

The Wind and the Lion
1975
as Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli

The Man Who Would Be King
1975
as Daniel Dravot

Family Business
1989
as Jessie McMullen

The Russia House
1990
as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023
as Self (archive footage)

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1984
as The Green Knight

The Red Tent
1969
as Roald Amundsen

Robin and Marian
1976
as Robin Hood

Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

The Hill
1965
as Joe Roberts

HyperNormalisation
2016
as Self (archive footage)

Cuba
1979
as Maj. Robert Dapes

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
as Michael MacBride

The Incredible World of James Bond
1965
as Self (archive footage)

Sir Billi
2012
as Sir Billi (voice)

The Offence
1973
as Detective Sergeant Johnson

Hell Drivers
1957
as Johnny Kates

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Woman of Straw
1964
as Anthony Richmond

Wrong Is Right
1982
as Patrick Hale

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959
as O'Bannion

Ransom
1974
as Col. Nils Tahlvik
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
as Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
as Self

Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self (archive footage)

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
as Self

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self

Five Days One Summer
1982
as Douglas Meredith

Memories of Me
1988
as Self (uncredited)

A Fine Madness
1966
as Samson Shillitoe

Junket Whore
1998
as Self

The Next Man
1976
as Khalil Abdul-Muhsen

Action of the Tiger
1957
as Mike

In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1995
as Self / James Bond

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
1959
as Michael MacBride

The Anderson Tapes
1971
as Duke Anderson

Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993
as Self (archive footage)

The Molly Maguires
1970
as Jack Kehoe

The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
as Self (archive footage)

On the Fiddle
1961
as Pedlar Pascoe
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self

The Frightened City
1961
as Paddy Damion

A Good Man in Africa
1994
as Dr. Alex Murray

Another Time, Another Place
1958
as Mark Trevor

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999

Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000
as Self

The James Bond Story
1999
as Self

A Young World
1966
as Self (uncredited)

Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
2000
as James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
2008
as Self

La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self

Sean Connery Documentary
1991
as Sean Connery

Male of the Species
1969
as MacNeil

The Sean Connery Paradox
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
1987
as Self (archive footage)

The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast
2004
as Self (archive footage)

G'olé!
1983
as Commentator (voice)

Time Lock
1957
as Welder #1

Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
1995
as Self

Macbeth
1961
as Macbeth

Anna Karenina
1961
as Count Alexei Vronsky

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995
as Self

Blood Money
1957
as Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock

Circasia
1976
as Clown

Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
1982
as Self

30 Years of James Bond
1992
as Self

Waiting for Gascoigne: The Story of a Legend
1996

Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
2004
as Self

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009

Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Riders to the Sea
1960
as Bartley
Sad?
1996
as James Bond (archive footage)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Inside 'From Russia with Love'
2000
as Self

The Untouchables: Production Stories
2004
as Self (archive footage)

The Vocation
1974
as Narrator (voice)

Lilacs in the Spring
1954
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
About Sean Connery
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 Suppo… With 175 credits spanning from 1944 to 2023, Sean Connery has appeared in 143 films and 32 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sean Connery Movies
- Dr. No (1962) — as James Bond
- The Rock (1996) — as John Patrick Mason
- Highlander (1986) — as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) — as Professor Henry Jones
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) — as King Richard (uncredited)
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