Sean Connery
Acting
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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
Born: August 25, 1930
Place of Birth: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Known For
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
The Vocation
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th century. The story of his father Gustav Natanael Nykvist is told through his own photos, letters, and films. Director & cinematographer: Sven Nykvist. Narrators in the English dubbed version: Liv Ullmann & Sean Connery. Produced by Ingmar Bergman (Cinematograph AB). Digitally restored in 2022.
Bambi
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.
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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 Wonderful World of Disney
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.
The Jack Benny Program
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
Filmography
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as Sir Billi (voice)
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as Allan Quatermain
as James Bond (archive footage) (uncredited)
as William Forrester
as Self
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as Robert "Mac" MacDougal
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Paul
as Self
as Sir August de Wynter
as Self
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as John Patrick Mason
as Draco (voice)
as Self / James Bond
as Arthur
as Paul Armstrong
as Dr. Alex Murray
as Self (archive footage)
as Capt. John Connor
as Self
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as Dr. Robert Campbell
as King Richard (uncredited)
as Sean Connery
as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
as Jessie McMullen
as Professor Henry Jones
as Self (uncredited)
as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
as Self
as Jim Malone
as Self (archive footage)
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as William of Baskerville
as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
as The Green Knight
as James Bond
as Commentator (voice)
as Douglas Meredith
as Self
as Patrick Hale
as King Agamemnon / Fireman
as Marshal William T. O'Niel
as Maj. Robert Dapes
as Paul Bradley
as Self
as Edward Pierce
as Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquhart
as Khalil Abdul-Muhsen
as Clown
as Robin Hood
as Daniel Dravot
as Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
as Col. Nils Tahlvik
as Colonel Arbuthnot
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Zed
as Self
as Detective Sergeant Johnson
as James Bond
as Duke Anderson
as Jack Kehoe
as Roald Amundsen
as MacNeil
as MacNeil
as MacNeil
as Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
as Self
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as James Bond
as Samson Shillitoe
as Self (uncredited)
as James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
as Joe Roberts
as James Bond
as Self
as Mark Rutland
as Anthony Richmond
as James Bond
as James Bond
as Self
as Pvt. Flanagan
as Self
as Self - Co-Host
as Count Alexei Vronsky
as Pedlar Pascoe
as Paddy Damion
as Alexander, King of Macedon
as Macbeth
as Hotspur
as Julian
as Michael MacBride
as O'Bannion
as Michael MacBride
as Deckhand (uncredited)
as Mark Trevor
as Welder #1
as Mike
as Johnny Kates
as Achmed
as Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock
as Spike
as Joe Brasted
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
as Michael MacBride
as Self
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as Porter
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Mountain McClintock
as Self
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as Self - Presenter
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient