Personal Info
Birth date
1930-08-25 (94 Years)
Day of death
2020-10-31
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as
Sir Sean Connery
Thomas Sean Connery
ショーン・コネリー
Σον Κόνερι
Τόμας Σον Κόνερι
Σερ Σον Κόνερι
Σερ Τόμας Σον Κόνερι
肖恩·康纳利
شان کانری
Sean Connery
Biography
Sir Thomas Sean Connery 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.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Overview:
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Tony Awards
5.917
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Omnibus
7.2
Overview:
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7.847
Overview:
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.405
Overview:
Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.The Jack Benny Program
7.813
Overview:
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
Overview:
The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.Dinah!
6.667
Overview:
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.The Oscars
6.973
Overview:
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.Time Bandits
6.605
Overview:
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.Bambi-Verleihung
9
Overview:
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.The Rock
7.136
Overview:
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.Sunday Night Theatre
3.5
Overview:
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.Highlander
6.875
Overview:
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.Goldfinger
7.355
Overview:
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.Thunderball
6.671
Overview:
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.Dr. No
6.996
Overview:
Agent 007 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, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.The Wonderful World of Disney
7.8
Overview:
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.From Russia with Love
7.075
Overview:
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.The Untouchables
7.757
Overview:
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.The Hunt for Red October
7.379
Overview:
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!You Only Live Twice
6.584
Overview:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
6.862
Overview:
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.The Longest Day
7.59
Overview:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"Acting
2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford as Self (archive footage)
2023The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling as Self (archive footage)
2022The Sean Connery Paradox as Self (archive footage)
2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2021The Real Hunt for Red October (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2016HyperNormalisation as Self (archive footage)
2015Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2015Spanish Western as Self (archive footage)
2012We're Nothing Like James Bond as Self
2012Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self
2012Everything or Nothing as Self (archive footage)
2012Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012The World Of Bond as Self
2012Ever to Excel as Self
2012Sir Billi as Sir Billi (voice)
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2009Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso as Unknown
2008Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner as Self
2008Being a Scot as Sean Connery
2006On Tour with the Aston Martin DB5 as Unknown
2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004The Untouchables: Production Stories as Self (archive footage)
2004The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast as Self (archive footage)
2004Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express' as Self
2004Mr. Connery Goes to Hollywood as Self
2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy as Self
2003The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Allan Quatermain
2002Best Ever Bond as Self / James Bond (archive footage)
2002Bond Girls Are Forever as James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn as James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000Finding Forrester as William Forrester
2000Inside 'You Only Live Twice' as Self
2000Inside 'From Russia with Love' as Self
2000The Trouble with 'Marnie' as Self (archive footage)
2000Inside 'Dr. No' as Self (archive footage)
1999The James Bond Story as Self
1999Entrapment as Robert "Mac" MacDougal
1999Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years as Unknown
1999Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998Playing by Heart as Paul
1998Junket Whore as Self
1998Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
1998The Avengers as Sir August de Wynter
1998Parkinson (1 Episode) as Self
1997Scene by Scene (1 Episode) as Self
1996Waiting for Gascoigne: The Story of a Legend as Unknown
1996The Rock as John Patrick Mason
1996DragonHeart as Draco (voice)
1996Sad? as James Bond (archive footage)
1995In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross as Self / James Bond
1995First Knight as Arthur
1995Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' as Self
1995Just Cause as Paul Armstrong
1995Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' as Self
1994A Good Man in Africa as Dr. Alex Murray
1993Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1993Rising Sun as Capt. John Connor
1993Sean Connery: Private as Self
1993Meridian: The First Ten Minutes as Self
199230 Years of James Bond as Self
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992Medicine Man as Dr. Robert Campbell
1991Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as King Richard (uncredited)
1991Sean Connery Documentary as Sean Connery
1991Highlander II: The Quickening as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
1990The Russia House as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
1990The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
1989Family Business as Jessie McMullen
1989Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Professor Henry Jones
1988Memories of Me as Self (uncredited)
1988The Presidio as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
1988The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen as Self (archive footage)
1987The Dame Edna Experience (1 Episode) as Self
1987The Untouchables as Jim Malone
1987Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
1987La rosa dei nomi as Self
1986The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
1986The Name of the Rose as William of Baskerville
1986Highlander as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
1984Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as The Green Knight
1984Afghanistan For What? as Unknown
1983Never Say Never Again as James Bond
1983G'olé! as Commentator (voice)
1982Five Days One Summer as Douglas Meredith
1982Sean Connery’s Edinburgh as Self
1982Wrong Is Right as Patrick Hale
1982Na sowas! (1 Episode) as Self
1981Time Bandits as King Agamemnon / Fireman
1981Outland as Marshal William T. O'Niel
1979Cuba as Maj. Robert Dapes
1979Meteor as Paul Bradley
1978The Kennedy Center Honors (1 Episode) as Self
1978The First Great Train Robbery as Edward Pierce
1977A Bridge Too Far as Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
1976The Next Man as Khalil Abdul-Muhsen
1976Circasia as Clown
1976Robin and Marian as Robin Hood
1975The Man Who Would Be King as Daniel Dravot
1975The Wind and the Lion as Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
1974Ransom as Col. Nils Tahlvik
1974Murder on the Orient Express as Colonel Arbuthnot
1974Dinah! (2 Episodes) as Self
1974The Vocation as Narrator (voice)
1974Zardoz as Zed
1973The Big Screen as Self
1973The Offence as Detective Sergeant Johnson
1971Diamonds Are Forever as James Bond
1971The Anderson Tapes as Duke Anderson
1971Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat as Self
1970Treffpunkte (1 Episode) as Self
1970The Molly Maguires as Jack Kehoe
1969The Red Tent as Roald Amundsen
1969Male of the Species (1 Episode) as MacNeil
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as MacNeil
1969Male of the Species as MacNeil
1968Shalako as Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
1967Omnibus (1 Episode) as Self
1967The Bowler and the Bunnet as Self
1967You Only Live Twice as James Bond
1967The Castles of Scotland as Narrator
1966A Fine Madness as Samson Shillitoe
1966A Young World as Self (uncredited)
1965Thunderball as James Bond
1965The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
1965The Sun... the Sand... the Hill as Self
1965The Hill as Joe Roberts
1964Goldfinger as James Bond
1964The Guns of James Bond as Self
1964Marnie as Mark Rutland
1964Woman of Straw as Anthony Richmond
1963From Russia with Love as James Bond
1962Dr. No as James Bond
1962The Merv Griffin Show (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (4 Episodes) as Self
1962The Longest Day as Pvt. Flanagan
1961The Mike Douglas Show (4, 1 Episode) as Self, Self - Co-Host
1961Anna Karenina as Count Alexei Vronsky
1961On the Fiddle as Pedlar Pascoe
1961The Frightened City as Paddy Damion
1961Adventure Story as Alexander, King of Macedon
1961Macbeth as Macbeth
1960An Age of Kings (4 Episodes) as Hotspur
1960Riders to the Sea as Bartley
1959Tarzan's Greatest Adventure as O'Bannion
1959Darby O'Gill and the Little People as Michael MacBride
1959I Captured the King of the Leprechauns as Michael MacBride
1958A Night to Remember as Deckhand (uncredited)
1958Another Time, Another Place as Mark Trevor
1957Time Lock as Welder #1
1957Action of the Tiger as Mike
1957Hell Drivers as Johnny Kates
1957Sailor of Fortune (22 Episodes) as Achmed
1957Blood Money as Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock
1957No Road Back as Spike
1956Armchair Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Winner
1955Dixon of Dock Green (1 Episode) as Joe Brasted
1954Lilacs in the Spring as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
1954The Wonderful World of Disney (1 Episode) as Michael MacBride
1954Reflets de Cannes (1 Episode) as Self
1954Simon as Policeman
1953The Oscars (2 Episodes) as Self
1951Deutscher Filmpreis (1 Episode) as Self
1950The Jack Benny Program (1 Episode) as Porter
1950What's My Line? (1 Episode) as Self - Mystery Guest
1950Sunday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as Mountain McClintock
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (1 Episode) as Self
1948Bambi-Verleihung (1 Episode) as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Presenter, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
Production
2003The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ... Executive Producer
2000Finding Forrester ... Producer
1999Entrapment ... Producer
1996The Rock ... Executive Producer
1995Just Cause ... Producer
1993Rising Sun ... Executive Producer
1992Medicine Man ... Executive Producer
1967The Bowler and the Bunnet ... Producer
Directing
1967The Bowler and the Bunnet ... Director