Sean Connery (1930–2020)

Actor | Producer | Director

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to ...

Born: August 25, 1930
Died: October 31, 2020 (age 90)

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Filmography

Known For

The Untouchables Jim Malone (1987)
Dr. No James Bond (1962)
The Rock John Patrick Mason (1996)
Known For

Thunderball James Bond (1965)
Actor

Sir Billi Sir Billi (2012)
Modern Greeks: C.P. Cavafy Narrator - reciting 'Ithaka' (2007)
From Russia with Love James Bond (2005)
Freedom: A History of US John Muir (2003)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Allan Quatermain (2003)
Finding Forrester Forrester (2000)
Entrapment Mac (1999)
Playing by Heart Paul (1998)
The Avengers Sir August de Wynter (1998)
The Rock John Patrick Mason (1996)
DragonHeart Draco (1996)
First Knight King Arthur (1995)
Just Cause Paul Armstrong (1995)
A Good Man in Africa Dr. Murray (1994)
Rising Sun John Connor (1993)
Medicine Man Dr. Robert Campbell (1992)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves King Richard (1991)
Highlander II: The Quickening Ramírez (1991)
The Russia House Barley (1990)
The Hunt for Red October Marko Ramius (1990)
Family Business Jessie (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Professor Henry Jones (1989)
Memories of Me Sean Connery as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell (1988)
The Presidio Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell (1988)
The Untouchables Jim Malone (1987)
The Name of the Rose William von Baskerville (1986)
Highlander Ramirez (1986)
Sword of the Valiant The Green Knight (1984)
Never Say Never Again James Bond (1983)
Five Days One Summer Douglas Meredith (1982)
Wrong Is Right Patrick Hale (1982)
Time Bandits King Agamemnon / Fireman (1981)
Outland Marshal William T. O'Niel (1981)
Cuba Maj. Robert Dapes (1979)
Meteor Paul Bradley (1979)
The Great Train Robbery Pierce (1978)
A Bridge Too Far Maj. Gen. Urquhart (1977)
Circasia Clown (1976)
The Next Man Khalil Abdul-Muhsen (1976)
Robin and Marian Robin Hood (1976)
The Man Who Would Be King Daniel Dravot (1975)
The Wind and the Lion Raisuli (1975)
The Terrorists Tahlvik (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express Col. Arbuthnot (1974)
Zardoz Zed (1974)
The Offence Johnson (1973)
Diamonds Are Forever James Bond (1971)
The Anderson Tapes Robert 'Duke' Anderson (1971)
The Molly Maguires Jack Kehoe (1970)
The Red Tent Roald Amundsen (1969)
ITV Sunday Night Theatre MacNeil (1969)
Male of the Species MacNeil (1969)
Shalako Shalako (1968)
You Only Live Twice James Bond (1967)
A Fine Madness Samson Shillitoe (1966)
A New World Sean Connery (1966)
Thunderball James Bond (1965)
The Hill Joe Roberts (1965)
Goldfinger James Bond (1964)
Marnie Mark Rutland (1964)
Woman of Straw Anthony 'Tony' Richmond (1964)
From Russia with Love James Bond (1963)
Dr. No James Bond (1962)
The Longest Day Pvt. Flanagan (1962)
Anna Karenina Count Alexis Vronsky (1961)
Operation Snafu Pedlar Pascoe (1961)
The Frightened City Paddy Damion (1961)
Adventure Story Alexander, King of Macedon (1961)
Macbeth Macbeth (1961)
ITV Play of the Week Connolly (1956-1960)
Without the Grail Innes Corrie (1960)
An Age of Kings Hotspur (1960)
Riders to the Sea Bartley (1960)
BBC Sunday-Night Play Julien (1960)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People Michael McBride (1959)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure O'Bannion (1959)
The Magical World of Disney Michael MacBride (1959)
Armchair Theatre (1958)
Women in Love Johnnie in 'The Return' (1958)
Another Time, Another Place Mark Trevor (1958)
ITV Television Playhouse Mat Burke (1957)
Time Lock Welder #1 (1957)
Action of the Tiger Mike (1957)
Hell Drivers Johnny Kates (1957)
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre Mountain McClintock (1957)
Blood Money Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock (1957)
No Road Back Spike (1957)
The Jack Benny Program Porter (1957)
Sailor of Fortune Achmed (1956)
The Condemned (1956)
Dixon of Dock Green Joe Brasted (1956)
Simon Policeman (1954)
Actor

Let's Make Up Extra in crowd scene (1954)
Producer

Sir Billi (2012)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Entrapment (1999)
The Rock (1996)
Just Cause (1995)
Rising Sun (1993)
Medicine Man (1992)
The Offence (1973)
Producer

The Bowler and the Bunnet (1967)
Soundtrack

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008)
The Rock (1996)
Dr. No (1962)
Soundtrack

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Director

The Bowler and the Bunnet (1967)
Archive footage

The Critical Drinker (2022)
Billy Connolly Does... (2022)
Entertainment Tonight (2020-2021)
No Time to Die: How Billie Eilish Created the Perfect James Bond Theme (2021)
Sean Connery: The Man and the Movies (2021)
Aston Martin DB5 and 007 - A Special Bond (2021)
Aston Martin X 007 - Licence to Thrill (2021)
Wolfgang (2021)
Rembob'Ina (2021)
The Oscars (2021)
The Years That Changed Modern Scotland (2021)
Hollywood Insider (2020-2021)
Inside the Mind of James Bond: Psychoanalysis of a Fictional Character (2021)
CBS News Sunday Morning (2020)
Året der gik (2020)
TCM Remembers 2020 (2020)
Minty Comedic Arts (2020)
Today (2020)
Good Morning America (2020)
TCM Remembers: Sean Connery (2020)
Les enfants de la télé (2020)
Good Morning America Weekend Edition (2020)
Dagsrevyen (2020)
Mein Name ist Connery, Sean Connery - Zum Tod einer Filmlegende (2020)
IMDb Originals (2020)
Fox and Friends (2020)
Jornal das 8 (2020)
L'Histoire nous le dira (2020)
The Hollywood Moment at Home Edition (2020)
Les Chroniques du Mea (2019-2020)
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)
Days of Rage: the Rolling Stones' Road to Altamont (2020)
Die Hardy Krüger-Story (2019)
Daughter of Shanghai (2019)
Discovering Film (2015-2019)
An Accidental Studio (2019)
Bond 25: Live Reveal (2019)
Auto/Biography (2019)
007 Elements (2018)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
Die Wiener Stadthalle rockt! Pop Meets Classic zum 60. Jubiläum (2018)
Robin Hood: The First Celebrity Outlaw (2018)
Hell's Club Part 2. Another Night (2017)
Talking Pictures (2015-2017)
Spielberg (2017)
Shaken Not Stirred (2017)
The Joe Rogan Experience (2017)
Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015-2017)
The EE British Academy Film Awards (2017)
National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts (2017)
Welcome to the Basement (2016)
Wajda by Wajda (2016)
The Cars That Made Britain Great (2016)
Extra with Billy Bush (2016)
The One Show (2016)
Blow up (2016)
My Name Is Fleming, Ian Fleming (2016)
The Unlovable James Bond (2016)
Inside Spectre with Richard Wilkins (2015)
Timeshift (2009-2015)
The Shadow of 'Spectre' (2015)
Sean Connery: In His Own Words (2015)
Wogan: The Best Of (2015)
Compression (2010-2015)
WatchMojo (2015)
Spanish Western (2014)
The Factor (2008-2014)
Carson on TCM (2014)
L'antre du Mea (2014)
Skyfall: Modern Day Bond (2013)
Flirting with Danger (2012)
Sky Movies 007 Ident: Gun Barrel and Clip Show (2012)
James Bond 50th Anniversary Videoblog (2012)
Special Collector's Edition (2011-2012)
Top Gear (2012)
Everything or Nothing (2012)
Close Up (2012)
The World of Bond (2012)
Being Bond: Celebrating Five Decades of Bond 007 (2012)
Österreich-Bild (2012)
Sky Movies James Bond 007 HD Launch Television Commercial (2012)
Discovering Huston (2012)
Designing 007: Barbican Exhibition Preview with Lindy Hemming and Bronwyn Cosgrave (2012)
Der Bernd (2012)
Shakespeare Uncovered (2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Wags of '66 (2011)
The Many Faces of... (2011)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
Gilles Jacob: CIitizen Cannes (2010)
Casper och den förbjudna filmen (2009)
Memòries de la tele (2009)
Hollywood on the Tiber (2009)
Revealed (2009)
20 to 1 (2006-2009)
Film 2018 (2008-2009)
Never Say Never Again: Sean Is Back (2009)
Never Say Never Again: The Big Gamble (2009)
The Making of 'Never Say Never Again' (2009)
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008)
James Bond in the Bahamas (2008)
Bond Exhibit (2008)
Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (2008)
Agatha Christie: A Woman of Mystery (2007)
Personnel et confidentiel (2007)
Ein Leben wie im Flug (2007)
ITV News London (2007)
ITV Evening News (2007)
5 News (2007)
OO-Heaven (2006)
You Only Live Twice: Whicker's World - Highlights from the 1967 BBC Documentary (2006)
From Russia with Love: The Boat Chase Animated Storyboard Sequence (2006)
Diamonds Are Forever: Deleted Scenes (2006)
Diamonds Are Forever: Alternate and Expanded Angle Scenes (2006)
Wetten, dass..? (2006)
World of Robin Hood (2006)
007: The Car Chases (2006)
Thunderball Boat Show Promo (2006)
Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (2006)
On Tour with the Aston Martin DB5 (2006)
The 60s: The Beatles Decade (2006)
I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006)
Corazón de... (2006)
Ciclo Agatha Christie (2005)
Sexes (2005)
Tvist (2005)
Getaway (2005)
Greatest TV Comedy Moments (2005)
8 Out of 10 Cats (2005)
The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast (2004)
The Untouchables: Production Stories (2004)
Unsere Besten (2004)
Reeling in the Years (2004)
Le nom de la rose (2004)
101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
30 veces 31 (2003)
Celebrities Uncensored (2003)
Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2 (2003)
Brits Go to Hollywood (2003)
The Light and Magic of 'Indiana Jones' (2003)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
The Name of the Rose: Photo Video Journey with Jean-Jacques Annaud (2003)
60 Minutes (2003)
Introducing ... James Bond (2002)
James Bond Special Edition DVD Sampler (2002)
40 Years of Bond, James Bond (2002)
Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (2002)
The Best of Bond... James Bond 40th Anniversary Edition CD Television Commercial (2002)
Best Ever Bond (2002)
In Other Times (2002)
Bond Girls Are Forever (2002)
Histoires de festival (2002)
Inside TV Land (2001)
Bond Special (2000)
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn (2000)
Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (2000)
Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000)
Omnibus (2000)
Inside 'Octopussy' (2000)
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (2000)
The Trouble with Marnie (2000)
The Directors (2000)
The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000)
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (2000)
The World Is Not Enough: The Making of a Blockbuster (1999)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: A Look Inside (1999)
And the Word Was Bond (1999)
Bravo Profiles (1999)
Antes de ser famosos (1998)
TV3 007 Bondfever Desmond Llewelyn 'Q' Television Commercial (1997)
Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond (1997)
The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (1997)
James Bond 007: Yesterday and Today (1996)
Inside 'Thunderball' (1995)
Three Decades of James Bond 007 (1995)
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (1995)
Kicking & Screaming (1995)
The World of James Bond (1995)
The Goldfinger Phenomenon (1995)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993)
Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes (1993)
Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993)
The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary Collection CD Television Commercial (1992)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)
Wogan (1991)
The James Bond Collector's Classic (1990)
The Many Faces of James Bond (1989)
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988)
James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987)
James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986)
Show bises (1986)
Eye on L.A. (1985)
James Bond 007: Coming Attractions (1984)
Lani Hall: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Bonds Are Forever (1983)
At the Movies (1983)
International Pro-Celebrity Golf (1981)
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
Telescope (1965)
The Incredible World of James Bond (1965)
Take Thirty (1965)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1965)
Goldfinger Original Promotional Featurette (1964)
Goldfinger: The World Premiere (1964)
Dr. No Featurette (1963)
Archive footage

The Petrol Age (2012)
Wild On... (1997)

Videos

Awards

Did You Know

He caused an uproar in a December 1987 interview with Barbara Walters in which he said it was OK to hit a woman if she deserved it or needed it to keep her in line. He had said similar things in a November 1965 interview with Playboy magazine.

Quotes

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man, "but you're not young, you're 40! [Evening Standard, 1971]