Sean Connery Biography
Sean Connery born Sir Thomas Sean Connery, is a retired Scottish actor and producer. He has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).
Between 1962 and 1983, he was the first person to portray the character James Bond in film having featured in seven Bond films. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables back in 1988. He has also performed in films like Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Finding Forrester, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragon-heart, and The Rock.
Connery has been canvassed in The Sunday Herald as “The Greatest Living Scot” and in a 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. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to Film Drama.
Sean Connery Age | Birthday | Date Of Birth
He was born on 25 August 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is 88 years old as of 2018.
Sean Connery Height | How Tall Is Sean Connery
He is 1.88 meters tall.
Sean Connery Wife
He was initially married to Diane Cilento in 1962 and divorced in 1973 and re-married Micheline Roquebrune in 1975.
Sean Connery Son | Kids | Children
He has a son called Jason Connery.
Sean Connery Nationality
He has duo citizenship of British and Scottish.
Sean Connery Films List | Películas
- Lilacs in the Spring
- No Road Back
- Hell Drivers
- Action of the Tiger
- Time Lock
- Another Time, Another Place
- Darby O’Gill and the Little People
- Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure
- On the Fiddle
- The Frightened City
- Macbeth
- The Longest Day
- Dr. No
- From Russia with Love
- Marnie
- Woman of Straw
- Goldfinger
- The Hill
- Thunderball
- Un monde nouveau
- A Fine Madness
- You Only Live Twice
- The Bowler and the Bunnet
- Shalako
- The Red Tent
- The Molly Maguires
- The Anderson Tapes
- Diamonds Are Forever
- España campo de golf
- The Offence
- Zardoz
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Ransom
- The Dream Factory
- The Wind and the Lion
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Robin and Marian
- The Next Man
- A Bridge Too Far
- The First Great Train Robbery
- Meteor
- Cuba
- Outland
- Time Bandits
- G’olé!
- Five Days One Summer
- Wrong Is Right
- Sean Connery’s Edinburgh
- Never Say Never Again
- Sword of the Valiant
- Highlander
- The Name of the Rose
- The Untouchables
- The Presidio
- Memories of Me
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Family Business
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Russia House
- Highlander II: The Quickening
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Medicine Man
- Rising Sun
- A Good Man in Africa
- Just Cause
- First Knight
- Dragonheart
- The Rock
- The Avengers
- Playing by Heart
- Entrapment
- Finding Forrester
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Sir Billi
Sean Connery Young
Thomas Sean Connery was named Thomas after his grandfather. His mother, Euphemia McBain “Effie” (née McLean), was a cleaning woman while his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver. In the mid-19th century, his paternal grandfather’s parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife (unusually, for a speaker of the language), and Uig on the Isle of Skye.
His father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a younger brother, Neil. Connery has said that he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present. He was generally referred to in his youth as “Tommy”. Although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) at 18. He was known during his teen years as “Big Tam”, and has stated that he lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.
Connery’s first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society. In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:
When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I could put a name to every street we passed. “How come?” he asked. “As a boy I used to deliver milk round here,” I said. “So what do you do now?” That was rather harder to answer.
Connery then joined the Royal Navy, during which time he acquired two tattoos, of which his official website says “unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous—his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. … One tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads ‘Mum and Dad,’ and the other is self-explanatory, ‘Scotland Forever.'”
Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family. Afterwards, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist’s model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour (~US$41 per hour in 2018 money). Artist Richard Demarco, at the time a student who painted several notable early pictures of Connery, described him as “very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis”.
Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British army. While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification. Connery stated that he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he found that the Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.
Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife. While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week (equivalent to £641 in 2016) immediately after the game. Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, “I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves.”
Sean Connery Bond
Sean Connery 007
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Initial release: 5 October 1962 (London)
Director: Terence Young
Featured song: James Bond Theme
Box office: 59.5 million USD
Screenplay: Terence Young, Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Sean Connery Health
He marked his 87th birthday two weeks ago – but Sean Connery still seemed determined to keep active on Monday morning. Now relying on the help of a full-time caregiver, the James Bond superstar was moving slowly and walking with a cane in his right hand. The legendary movie-star was only just visible beneath a hat as he towered over his helpful companion.
Where his hair was once raven and his suits slick black, Sean displayed a silver beard and matching off-white attire. Before June, the retired actor was rarely seen but he put in a surprise appearance at the US Open in August. It’s here that Sean is said to have suffered a fall but he is believed to have been unhurt, save for a bruise on his face.
‘The bruise was from a fall,’ a representative explained to the Daily Express in August. ‘He is absolutely fine.’ Later that week, Sean visited a New York massage center and has been seen most days taking a walk in New York. Sean is best known as the original James Bond, first on the titular book character role in Dr. No in the Sixties.
He starred in seven more Bond films between 1962 and 1983 with the last being Never Say Never Again. The 007 community lost one of its legends in May with the passing of Sir Roger Moore. Following his death, Sean paid tribute by saying that their friendship off the screen had been ‘filled with jokes and laughter.’
He told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘I was very sad to hear of Roger’s passing. We had an unusually long relationship by Hollywood standards… I will miss him.’
Adopted from: www.dailymail.co.uk
Sean Connery James Bond Movies
- Dr. No
- You Only Live Twice
- From Russia With Love
- Thunderball
- Diamonds are Forever
- Goldfinger
- Never Say Never Again
- Bonds are Forever
Sean Connery Dead | Is Sean Connery Alive
He is still alive and there is no death report as of 2018.
Sean Connery Last Movie
His last movie was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen done in 2011.
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Sean Connery Alzheimer | Dementia
Sir Michael Caine had initially claimed that Connery was suffering from Alheimers but later came out to deny the charges and said that he was not suffering from the disease.
Sean Connery Highlander
Sean Connery Jeopardy
Celebrity Jeopardy! is a series of sketches that aired regularly on the television comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live between 1996 and 2002, the years when Will Ferrell was a cast member.
First episode date: 7 December 1996
Final episode date: 16 May 2009
Program creator: Norm Macdonald
Network: NBC
Writers: Norm Macdonald
Main characters: Alex Trebek, Sean Connery, Burt Reynolds
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Sean Connery James Bond
He played 007 in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) – then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful.
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Sean Connery First Movie
He was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond filmsbetween 1962 and 1983.
Sean Connery Retired
Connery’s final film was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. Last year, Caine said: “The movie business retired him because he didn’t want to play-small parts about old men and they weren’t offering him any young parts in romantic leads.”
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Sean Connery Quotes
- There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
- I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.
- Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
- I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.
- There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
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