Sean Connery
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Known For
The Ed Sullivan Show
Tony Awards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
What's My Line?
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
Top Gear
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Kennedy Center Honors
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
The Longest Day
Time Bandits
Murder on the Orient Express
Highlander
Making "Murder on the Orient-Express"
The Real Hunt for Red October
The Avengers
Marnie
The Untouchables
Highlander II: The Quickening
The Red Tent
The Untouchables: Production Stories
Entrapment
DragonHeart
The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast
Dr. No
Goldfinger
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
You Only Live Twice
Thunderball
Medicine Man
Never Say Never Again
The Name of the Rose
The Rock
The Presidio
Diamonds Are Forever
First Knight
The Hunt for Red October
From Russia with Love
Outland
Production Credits
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