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.
Movies (Cast)
Never Say Never Again
Dr. No
Murder on the Orient Express
Highlander
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
You Only Live Twice
First Knight
The Hill
Ransom
Entrapment
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Rising Sun
DragonHeart
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Thunderball
Hell Drivers
Finding Forrester
The Rock
The Untouchables
Meteor
Shalako
Goldfinger
Medicine Man
From Russia with Love
Just Cause
The Wind and the Lion
The Avengers
A Bridge Too Far
Diamonds Are Forever
Family Business
Zardoz
The Hunt for Red October
Anna Karenina
The Longest Day
The Offence
The Red Tent
The Anderson Tapes
The Molly Maguires
The Man Who Would Be King
Woman of Straw
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
The Russia House
Sir Billi
Circasia
The Next Man
Robin and Marian
A Good Man in Africa
Highlander II: The Quickening
Playing by Heart
Outland
Simon
Cuba
Macbeth
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Five Days One Summer
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Marnie
Action of the Tiger
The Name of the Rose
On the Fiddle
A Fine Madness
Another Time, Another Place
Memories of Me
Time Lock
The Frightened City
No Road Back
Time Bandits
A Night to Remember
Wrong Is Right
The First Great Train Robbery
The Presidio
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight