Sean Connery
Born August 25, 1930 (Age: 95)
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Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
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An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 91
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 82
Sir Billi
2012
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as Sir Billi (voice)
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Age: 81
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 74
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003
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as Allan Quatermain
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Age: 72
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
2000
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as James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 70
Finding Forrester
2000
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as William Forrester
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Age: 70
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 69
Inside 'Dr. No'
2000
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 69
Entrapment
1999
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as Robert 'Mac' MacDougal
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Age: 68
Playing by Heart
1998
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as Paul
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Age: 68
Junket Whore
1998
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as Self
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Age: 68
The Avengers
1998
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as Sir August de Wynter
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Age: 67
Rangers Fc: Seasons to Be Cheerful
1997
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as Self
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Age: 67
Waiting for Gascoigne: The Story of a Legend
1996
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as
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Age: 66
The Rock
1996
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as John Patrick Mason
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Age: 65
DragonHeart
1996
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as Draco (voice)
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Age: 65
First Knight
1995
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as Arthur
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Age: 64
Just Cause
1995
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as Paul Armstrong
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Age: 64
Rising Sun
1993
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as Capt. John Connor
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Age: 62
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Meridian: The First Ten Minutes
1993
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as Self
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Age: 62
Medicine Man
1992
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as Dr. Robert Campbell
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Age: 61
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
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as King Richard (uncredited)
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Age: 60
Sean Connery Documentary
1991
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as Sean Connery
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Age: 60
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
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as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
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Age: 60
The Russia House
1990
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as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
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Age: 60
The Hunt for Red October
1990
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as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
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Age: 59
Family Business
1989
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as Jessie McMullen
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Age: 59
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
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as Professor Henry Jones
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Age: 58
The Presidio
1988
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as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
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Age: 57
The Untouchables
1987
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as Jim Malone
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Age: 56
The Name of the Rose
1986
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as William of Baskerville
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Age: 56
Highlander
1986
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as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
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Age: 55
Afghanistan For What?
1984
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as
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Age: 53
Never Say Never Again
1983
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as James Bond
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Age: 53
Five Days One Summer
1982
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as Douglas Meredith
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Age: 52
Time Bandits
1981
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as King Agamemnon / Fireman
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Age: 50
Outland
1981
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as Marshal William T. O'Niel
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Age: 50
Meteor
1979
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as Paul Bradley
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Age: 49
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
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Age: 46
The Man Who Would Be King
1975
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as Daniel Dravot
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Age: 45
The Wind and the Lion
1975
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as Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
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Age: 44
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
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as Colonel Arbuthnot
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Age: 44
The Vocation
1974
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 43
Zardoz
1974
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as Zed
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Age: 43
Diamonds Are Forever
1971
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as James Bond
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Age: 41
The Anderson Tapes
1971
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as Duke Anderson
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Age: 40
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Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat
1971
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as Self
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Age: 40
The Molly Maguires
1970
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as Jack Kehoe
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Age: 39
Shalako
1968
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as Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
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Age: 38
Thunderball
1965
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as James Bond
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Age: 35
Goldfinger
1964
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as James Bond
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Age: 34
Marnie
1964
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as Mark Rutland
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Age: 33
From Russia with Love
1963
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as James Bond
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Age: 33
Dr. No
1962
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as James Bond
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Age: 32
The Longest Day
1962
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as Pvt. Flanagan
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Age: 32
On the Fiddle
1961
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as Pedlar Pascoe
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Age: 31
The Frightened City
1961
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as Paddy Damion
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Age: 31
Adventure Story
1961
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as Alexander, King of Macedon
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Age: 30
Macbeth
1961
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as Macbeth
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Age: 30
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Riders to the Sea
1960
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as Bartley
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Age: 29
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
1960
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as Julian
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Age: 29
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
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as Michael MacBride
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Age: 28
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959
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as O'Bannion
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Age: 28
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
1959
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as Michael MacBride
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Age: 28