Sean Connery

Known for ActingBorn 1930-08-25Died 2020-10-31Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

A Young World

Close Up

Rat Pack

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

The Vocation

The Bowler and the Bunnet

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Blood Money

Bambi

Prins Bernhard

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

The Secrets of 007

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

HyperNormalisation

Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka

The Untouchables

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

The Sean Connery Paradox

Sean Connery’s Edinburgh

Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn

The Wonderful World of Disney

Everything or Nothing

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years

The Name of the Rose

The Untouchables: Production Stories

The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

Inside 'You Only Live Twice'

The Jack Benny Program

The Hunt for Red October

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

A Night to Remember

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

The Longest Day

The Man Who Would Be King

The Hill

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Rock

30 Years of James Bond

Finding Forrester

Inside 'Dr. No'

Goldfinger

A Bridge Too Far