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 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.
Filmography (42)
Sir Billi
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Finding Forrester
Entrapment
The Avengers
Playing by Heart
The Rock
DragonHeart
First Knight
Just Cause
Rising Sun
Medicine Man
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Highlander II: The Quickening
The Hunt for Red October
The Russia House
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Presidio
The Untouchables
The Name of the Rose
Highlander
Never Say Never Again
Time Bandits
Outland
Meteor
The First Great Train Robbery
A Bridge Too Far
Robin and Marian
The Man Who Would Be King
Zardoz
Murder on the Orient Express
Diamonds Are Forever
The Anderson Tapes
The Molly Maguires
You Only Live Twice
Thunderball
Goldfinger
Marnie
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
The Longest Day
