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Sir Sean Connery Biography

original name Thomas Connery

(1930–)

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1957 No Road Back
1957 Action of the Tiger

1959 Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959 Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1961 On the Fiddle
1961 Frightened City
1962 The Longest Day
1963 Dr No
1963 From Russia, With Love
1964 Woman of Straw
1964 Goldfinger
1964 Marnie
1965 The Hill
1965 Thunderball
1966 A Fine Madness
1967 You Only Live Twice
1968 Shalako
1969 The Molly Maguires
1970 The Red Tent
1971 The Anderson Tapes
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1972 The Offence
1974 Zardoz
1974 Murder on the Orient Express
1975 Ransom
1975 The Man Who Would Be King
1975 The Wind and the Lion
1976 Robin and Marian
1978 The First Great Train Robbery
1979 Cuba
1979 Meteor
1981 Outland
1982 Wrong Is Right (UK The Man with the Deadly Lens)
1982 Five Days One Summer
1983 Never Say Never Again
1986 Highlander
1987 The Name of the Rose
1987 The Untouchables
1988 The Presidio
1989 Family Business
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 The Hunt for Red October
1990 Highlander II - The Quickening
1991 The Russia House
1992 Medicine Man
1993 Rising Sun
1994 A Good Man in Africa
1995 First Knight
1995 Just Cause
1996 The Rock
1996 Dragonheart
1998 The Avengers
1999 Playing By Heart
1999 Entrapment
2000 Finding Forrester
2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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(born Aug. 25, 1930, Edinburgh, Scot.) Scottish-born actor whose popularity in James Bond spy thrillers led to a successful, decades-long film career.

After a three-year stint in the navy and a series of odd jobs, Connery became a model for student artists and men's fashion catalogs. He represented Scotland in the 1953 Mr. Universe contest (he finished third in the tall-man's division), which in turn led to work as an extra in stage productions. In 1954 he landed a small part in a touring production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific and eventually took the leading role. More stage and television work followed, including a much-praised performance as washed-up boxer Mountain Rivera in the BBC television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight. Connery made his film debut in Lilacs in the Spring (1955; also released as Let's Make Up) and received top billing for the first time in On the Fiddle (1961; also released as Operation Snafu). His other notable films of the period include the Disney fantasy Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and the World War II epic The Longest Day (1962).

In 1962 Connery was cast in the role of James Bond, agent 007 of the British secret service, in the screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's spy thriller Dr. No. The immense success of the film and its immediate sequels, From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), established the James Bond films as a worldwide phenomenon and Connery as an international celebrity. Not wanting to be typecast as the superspy, Connery continued to take other acting roles, notably in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Marnie (1964). After completing the next two James Bond films, Thunderball (1965) and You Only Live Twice (1967), Connery renounced the role of Bond. Four years later, however, he was persuaded to return to the role for Diamonds Are Forever (1971), which he declared was his last movie as Bond.

He spent the 1970s playing mostly in period dramas and science-fiction films, the best among them being The Molly Maguires (1970), Zardoz (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Wind and the Lion (1975), Robin and Marian (1976), and The First Great Train Robbery (1979; also released as The Great Train Robbery). In 1981 he made a memorable appearance as King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam's time-travel fantasy Time Bandits, and two years later he delighted Bond fans by returning to the role of 007 in the slyly titled Never Say Never Again (1983).