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Sean Connery

Acting Born Aug 25, 1930 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 24 credits

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.

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Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
Film

The Rock

as John Patrick Mason
Film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

as Professor Henry Jones

Full filmography

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
  • Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter
  • Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
  • Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Winner
  • The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • The Jack Benny Program (1950) as Porter
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Mystery Guest
  • Bambi (1948) as Self
  • Film '72 (1971) as Self
  • Omnibus (1967) as Self
  • The Oscars (1953) as Self
  • The Rock (1996) as John Patrick Mason
  • Dinah! (1974) as Self
  • German Film Award (1951) as Self
  • Parkinson (1998) as Self
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as Professor Henry Jones
  • ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) as MacNeil
  • Dr. No (1962) as James Bond
  • Sunday Night Theatre (1950) as Mountain McClintock
  • Highlander (1986) as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez