Sean Connery - Wikipedia

Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that August 25 is the anniversary of the birth of Royal Navy sailor in WWII, retired Scottish actor and producer Sir Thomas Sean Connery "who has 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."
Happy 89th birthday Sean Connery

Sean Connery - NFT Interview - 1983
https://youtu.be/IfRVQT-s9uQ?t=34

Images:
1. Sean Connery in Goldfinger.
2. Micheline Roquebrune and Sean Connery married in 1975.
3. 1976 Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery in Robin and Marian.
4. 1988 Academy Awards Sean Connery Best Actor in a Supporting Role - The Untouchables (1987).

1. Background from /alchetron.com/Sean-Connery
"Sir Thomas Sean Connery (; born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them 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 between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Finding Forrester, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.
Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century". Connery was knighted by Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to Film Drama.

Early life
Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on 25 August 1930. His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" (née McLean), was a cleaning woman, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver. His paternal grandfather's parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid-19th century. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife (unusually, for a speaker of the language), and Uig on the Isle of Skye. His father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a younger brother, Neil (b. 1938). Connery has said that he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present. He was generally referred to in his youth as "Tommy". Although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) at 18. He was known during his teen years as "Big Tam", and has stated that he lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.

Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. He then joined the Royal Navy, during which time he acquired two tattoos, of which his official website says "unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous—his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. ... One tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads 'Mum and Dad,' and the other is self-explanatory, 'Scotland Forever.'"

Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family. Afterwards, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour. Artist Richard Demarco, at the time a student who painted several notable early pictures of Connery, described him as "very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis".

Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British army. While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification. Connery stated that he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he found that the Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.
Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife. While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week immediately after the game. Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, "I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves."

Career
1950s
Looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951. He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched. During a bodybuilding competition held in London in 1953, one of the competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a production of South Pacific, and Connery landed a small part as one of the Seabees chorus boys. By the time the production reached Edinburgh, he had been given the part of Marine Cpl Hamilton Steeves and was understudying two of the juvenile leads, and his salary was raised from £12 to £14–10s a week. The production returned the following year out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, one of the most ruthless gangs in the city. He was first approached by them in a billiard hall on Lothian Street where he prevented them from stealing from his jacket and was later followed by six gang members to a 15 ft high balcony at the Palais. There Connery launched an attack singlehandedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together. From then on he was treated with great respect by the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".

Connery first met Michael Caine at a party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the two would later become close friends. During the production of South Pacific at the Opera House, Manchester over the Christmas period of 1954, Connery developed a serious interest in the theatre through American actor Robert Henderson who lent him copies of the Henrik Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and When We Dead Awaken, and later listed works by the likes of Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce and William Shakespeare for him to digest. Henderson urged him to take elocution lessons and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London. In addition, he had already begun pursuing a film career, having been an extra in Herbert Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring alongside Anna Neagle.

Although Connery had secured several roles as extras, he was struggling to make ends meet, and was forced to accept a part-time job as a babysitter for journalist Peter Noble and his actress wife Mary, which earned him 10 shillings a night. He met Hollywood actor Shelley Winters one night at Noble's house, who described Connery as "one of the tallest and most charming and masculine Scotsmen" she'd ever seen, and later spent many evenings with the Connery brothers drinking beer. Around this time Connery was residing at TV presenter Llew Gardner's house. Henderson landed Connery a role in a £6 a week Q Theatre production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, during which he met and became friends with fellow-Scot Ian Bannen. This role was followed by Point of Departure and A Witch in Time at Kew, a role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae at the Oxford Playhouse, and a role opposite Jill Bennett in Eugene O'Neill's production of Anna Christie. During his time at the Oxford Theatre, Connery won a brief part as a boxer in the TV series The Square Ring, before being spotted by Canadian director Alvin Rakoff who gave him multiple roles in The Condemned, shot on location in Dover in Kent. In 1956, Connery appeared in the theatrical production of Epitaph, and played a minor role as a hoodlum in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode of the BBC Television police series Dixon of Dock Green. This was followed by small television parts in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program.

In the spring of 1957, Connery hired agent Richard Hatton who got him a role as Spike, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back alongside Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton and Norman Wooland. In April 1957, Rakoff—after being disappointed by Jack Palance—decided to give the young actor his first chance in a leading role, and cast Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC TV's outstanding production of Requiem For a Heavyweight, which also starred Warren Mitchell and Jacqueline Hill. He then played a rogue lorry driver, Johnny Yates, in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957, Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom and Gustavo Rojo; the film was shot on location in southern Spain. He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall and Vincent Winter; this commenced filming on 1 December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.

He had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan. During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. He stormed onto the set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set. Connery later recounted that he had to lie low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.

In 1959, Connery landed a leading role in Robert Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) alongside Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, and Jimmy O'Dea. The film is a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's initial release, A. H. Weiler of the New York Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely tall, dark, and handsome") and thought the film an "overpoweringly charming concoction of standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy and romance.". In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney's best films, but is certainly one of the best fantasies ever put on film." He also had prominent television roles in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 productions of Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, in the latter of which he co-starred with Claire Bloom.

James Bond: 1962–1971, 1983
Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded, his career would greatly benefit. He played 007 in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) – then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.
Connery's selection for the role of James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of producer "Cubby" Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading her husband that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisioned of James Bond looks", and "I'm looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man", adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. Fleming's girlfriend told him that Connery had the requisite sexual charisma, and Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No première. He was so impressed, he created a half-Scottish, half-Swiss heritage for Bond in the later novels.
Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, which helped polish the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the action. Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week, and the actor became one of the great male sex symbols of film.
During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the sequence with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool. He had been concerned about this threat when he read the script. Connery insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inside the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, and one of the sharks managed to pass through it. He had to abandon the pool immediately.
In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all-new voice work by Connery as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast.

Beyond Bond
Although Bond had made him a star, Connery eventually grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying "[I am] fed up to here with the whole Bond bit" and "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him". Michael Caine said of the situation, "If you were his friend in these early days you didn't raise the subject of Bond. He was, and is, a much better actor than just playing James Bond, but he became synonymous with Bond. He'd be walking down the street and people would say, "Look, there's James Bond." That was particularly upsetting to him." While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and The Hill (1965). Apart from The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion, both released in 1975, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier. Connery shared a Henrietta Award with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.

In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, in which he describes the character removing his mask as being "Sean Connery — or someone of equal but cheaper stature". When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role. In 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the official film of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

Connery agreed to reprise Bond as an aging agent 007 in Never Say Never Again, released in October 1983. The title, contributed by his wife, refers to his earlier statement that he would "never again" play Bond. Although the film performed well at the box office, it was plagued with production problems: strife between the director and producer, financial problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the film, and Connery's wrist being broken by fight choreographer, Steven Seagal. As a result of his negative experiences during filming, Connery became unhappy with the major studios and did not make any films for two years. Following the successful European production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA award, Connery's interest in more commercial material was revived. That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in The Untouchables (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. Fellow nominees included Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, both of whom would go on to win the award. His subsequent box-office hits included Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), in which he played Henry Jones, Sr., the title character's father, The Hunt for Red October (1990) (where he was reportedly called in at two weeks' notice), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Draco the dragon in the film Dragonheart. In 1998, Connery received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award.

Connery's later films included several box office and critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), but he also received positive reviews, including his performance in Finding Forrester (2000). He also received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.
Connery stated in interviews that he was offered a role in The Lord of the Rings series, declining it owing to his "not understanding the script". CNN reported that the actor was offered up to 15% of the worldwide box office receipts to play Gandalf, which—had he accepted—could have earned him as much as $400 million for the trilogy. Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his eventual decision to retire from film-making.

Retirement
When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting. On 7 June 2007, he denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones film, stating that "retirement is just too much damned fun".
Connery returned to voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short Sir Billi the Vet, and in 2005 he recorded voiceovers for a new video game version of his Bond film From Russia with Love. In an interview on the game disc, Connery stated that he was very happy that the producers of the game (EA Games) had approached him to voice Bond and that he hoped to do another one in the near future. In 2010, he reprised his role in an expanded 80-minute version of Sir Billi, serving also as executive producer. In 2010, a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.

In the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When Leonard Nimoy was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Nimoy's acting as well.

Personal life
During the production of South Pacific in the mid-1950s, Connery dated a "dark-haired beauty with a ballerina's figure", Carol Sopel, but was warned off by her Jewish family. He then dated Julie Hamilton, a blonde woman, daughter of documentary filmmaker and feminist Jill Craigie. Given Connery's rugged appearance and rough charm, Hamilton initially thought he was a most appalling person and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen in her life. He also shared a mutual attraction with black jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met at the Empire Theatre. He made a pass at her, but she informed him that she was already happily married with a baby daughter. Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973. They had a son, actor Jason Connery.

Connery has been married to Moroccan-French painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 1929) since 1975. A keen golfer, Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in the South of France for twenty years (from 1979) where he planned to build his dream golf course on the 266 acres (108 ha) of land, but the dream was not realised until he sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999. He has been awarded the rank of Shodan (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate.

Connery was knighted by Elizabeth II in Edinburgh in July 2000. He had been nominated for a knighthood in 1997 and 1998, but these nominations were reported to have been vetoed due to Connery's political views by Donald Dewar. Sean Connery has a villa in Kranidi, Greece. His neighbour is King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, with whom he shares a helicopter platform. Michael Caine (who co-starred with Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), which saw the double act receive critical acclaim) is among Connery's closest friends. Connery is a keen supporter of Scottish Premiership football club Rangers F.C.

Scottish National Party
Connery is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), a centre-left political party campaigning for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, and has supported the party financially and through personal appearances. His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the UK Parliament passed legislation that prohibited overseas funding of political activities in the UK. In response to accusations that he is a tax exile, Connery released documents in 2003 showing that he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997/98 and 2002/03."

2. Background from encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/sean-connery
"Sir Sean Connery
PERSONAL
Full name, Thomas Sean Connery; born August 25, 1930, in Edinburgh, Scotland; son of Joseph (a factory worker and truck driver) and Euphamia C. (a cleaning woman) Connery; brother of Neil Connery (an actor); married Diane Cilento, December 6, 1962 (divorced September 6, 1973); married Micheline Boglio Roquebrune, 1975; children: (first marriage) Jason (an actor); (second marriage) one stepdaughter. Education: Studied dance with Yat Malmgrem (some sources cite Malmgeren). Avocational Interests: Golf, cooking, oil painting, reading.

Career:
Actor, director, and producer. Tantallon Films Ltd., director, 1972—; Fountainbridge Films (a production company), founder, c. 1993; Scottish International Education Trust (to help gifted, impoverished children), founder; appeared in television commercials, including Teekanne, 2000, RAS Insurance, 2002, and Level 3 Communications, 2002, 2004; appeared in print ad for Jim Beam bourbon whiskey, 1966. Also worked as a milk delivery person, bricklayer, lifeguard, coalman, and coffin polisher; Edinburgh Art College, worked as nude model; placed third in Mr. Universe Contest, 1953. Military service: Served with Royal Navy.
Member:
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (fellow).

A Depression-Era Childhood
Thomas Sean Connery began his life in the humblest of surroundings. He was the eldest of two sons, born in an Edinburgh, Scotland, tenement to Joseph and Euphamia Connery. During World War II, when he was 13, he dropped out of school to help support his family. "The war was on, so my whole education was a wipeout," Connery reminisced in Rolling Stone. "I had no qualifications at all for a job, and unemployment has always been very high in Scotland, anyway, so you take what you get. I was a milkman, laborer, steel bender, cement mixer-virtually anything." After several years of this, Connery decided to better his lot, and he joined the British Royal Navy. He received a medical discharge three years later, when he came down with a case of stomach ulcers.
Returning to Edinburgh, Connery began to lift weights and develop his physique. He became a lifeguard and even modeled for an art college. Then in 1953, the toned Connery traveled to London to compete in the Mr. Universe competition. This trip was to mean more to him than the third place prize he won. While he was there, he heard about auditions for the musical South Pacific. He decided he wanted to try out, took a crash course in dancing and singing, and was cast for a role in the chorus.

Chose Acting over Soccer
This small part became a crucial turning point for Connery. At the time, he was teetering between wanting to be an actor and a professional soccer player. But actor Robert Henderson, who was also in South Pacific, encouraged him to consider a career in acting. Connery took Henderson's advice: as a soccer player, one is limited by age; a good actor could play challenging roles forever.
The unschooled Connery looked up to Henderson as a mentor. He commented in Premiere that "[Henderson] gave me a list of all these books I should read. I spent a year in every library in Britain and Ireland, Scotland and Wales…. I spent my days at the library and the evenings at the theater." He also went to matinees and talked to a lot of other actors, people he met over the year-long touring run of South Pacific. "That's what opened me to a whole different look at things," said Connery. "It didn't give me any more intellectual qualifications, but it gave me a terrific sense of the importance of a lot of things I certainly would never have gotten in touch with." It is also where he picked up his stage name, Sean Connery. When asked how he wanted to be billed for the musical, he gave his full name, Thomas Sean Connery. After being told that was too long, he opted for Sean Connery, not knowing how long he was going to be an actor. The name stuck.
After South Pacific, Connery began broadening his horizons by working on the stage. He was also notable in his first television role, a British production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight. After garnering critical acclaim for this role, he received several film offers. In the years from 1955 to 1962, he made a string of B movies, including Action of the Tiger (1957).
It was there he met Terence Young, who was to be the director of the Bond films. Young recalls in Rolling Stone that Action of the Tiger "was not a good picture. But Sean was impressive in it, and when it was all over, he came to me and said, in a very strong Scottish accent, 'Sir, am I going to be a success?' I said, 'Not after this picture, you're not. But,' I asked him, 'Can you swim?' He looked rather blank and said, yes, he could swim-what's that got to do with it? I said, 'Well, you'd better keep swimming until I can get you a proper job, and I'll make up for what I did this time.' And four years later, we came up with Dr. No."

Bond, James Bond
Connery was still doing B movies when he was called in to interview for Dr. No, the first James Bond film. But he had matured quite a bit as an actor and exuded a kind of crude animal force, which Young compared to a young Kirk Douglas or Burt Lancaster. Producer Harry Saltzman felt that he had the masculinity the part required. In the course of a conversation he punctuate his words with physical movement. Everyone there agreed he was perfect for the role. Connery was signed without a screen test.
Dr. No was an instant success, propelling the little known Connery into fame and sex-symbol status virtually overnight, a situation that the serious-minded and very private Connery did not like. Equally distressing to him was the way the media handled his transition into the role. He commented in Rolling Stone: "I'd been an actor since I was twenty-five but the image the press put out was that I just fell into this tuxedo and started mixing vodka martinis. And, of course, it was nothin' like that at all. I'd done television, theater, a whole slew of things. But it was more dramatic to present me as someone who had just stepped in off the street."
Connery also performed many of his own stunts in Dr. No. He has continued this practice in many of his movies because it often speeds up the production. One of the stunts in Dr. No almost killed him. They had rehearsed a scene where he drives his convertible under a crane. At a slow speed, his head cleared by a few inches. When they actually shot the scene, the car was going 50 m.p.h., bouncing up and down. Luckily for Connery, the car hit the last bounce before he went under the crane and he emerged unhurt.
In 1962 Connery married his first wife, Diane Cilento. She was also an actress, having played the part of Molly in Tom Jones. Apparently their relationship was loving, yet tempestuous. Connery's friend Michael Caine reported in Rolling Stone: "I remember once I was with them in Nassau. Diane was cooking lunch, and Sean and I went out. Of course, we got out and one thing led to another, you know, and we got back for lunch two hours later. Well, we opened the door and Sean said, 'Darling, we're home'-and all the food she'd cooked came flying through the air at us. I remember the two of us standin' there, covered in gravy and green beans." The couple divorced in 1974 and their only son, Jason, is now a movie actor.
Between 1962 and 1967, Connery made five James Bond movies-Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger (which was, at that time, the fastest money-maker in movie history, netting more than $10 million in its first few months), Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice. He was tiring of the grueling pace of producing a new feature every year, and of the constant publicity and invasion of privacy. During the filming of Thunderball Connery was working long days and doing press interviews at night.
He was also arguing with the Bond movies' producer, Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, because he wanted to slow the pace of the series-completing a feature every 18 months instead of each year. He threatened to cut out of the contract after completing You Only Live Twice, and agreed to accept a salary that was lower than normal.
But the nation was Bond-crazy and the films were a gold mine. Connery agreed to star in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, demanding a salary of $1.25 million, plus a percentage. At that time, it was an unprecedented sum of money for such a role. After completing the film, Connery said "never again" to Bond roles and donated all of his salary to the Scottish International Education Trust, an organization he'd founded to assist young Scots in obtaining an education. (This is not the only example of Connery's generosity to charities. In 1987, he donated 50,000 British pounds to the National Youth Theatre in England after reading an article on the failing institution.)

"There's nothing special about being an actor," Sean Connery once remarked. "It's a job, like being a carpenter or a bricklayer, and I've never stopped being amazed at the mystique people attach to my business." There is about all his roles—even kings, even desert chieftains, even the suave and supercilious James Bond—an attractively down-to-earth roughness, his Scots burr and robust physique anchoring the wilder flights of fantasy. In the early years of his stardom, he was often dismissed as a clumsy, limited player who had struck lucky. As evidence to the contrary built up, the critical consensus veered round: he came to be seen as a fine actor whose career had become shadowed by the unworthy role of Bond. But this, too, may be something of an oversimplification.
That Bond made Connery's career is undeniable. He was 32 when he was chosen for Dr. No, with an undistinguished batch of supporting parts to his credit. Had he not landed the role, it's hard to imagine him attaining super-stardom so fast, or perhaps at all; more likely, he'd have turned increasingly to television, which had always used him better. And for all the limitations of the Bond character, it allowed Connery to develop and explore his own potential, refining techniques that he would put to more varied use elsewhere.
At the same time, Connery made Bond. Probably no other British actor—with the exception of James Mason, also at one point considered for the role—could have matched the cool, insolent sexuality that Connery brought to his portrayal. And without his intensely physical presence fleshing out Fleming's "cardboard booby" (the author's own description) the cycle could scarcely have taken off as it did. Connery's Bond moved with a tensile grace, a feral virility touched with a disturbing edge of danger. Yet the suggestion of cruelty was set off—and made all the more attractive—by a glint of sardonic complicity, inviting the audience in on the joke. The balance was finely gauged. A straighter performance would have made the comic-strip violence distasteful; a more flippant one would have defused the menace.
The films themselves may be little more than glossy escapist trash, and Connery has grown weary of being tagged with the role that made him famous. Still, his achievement shouldn't be underestimated: he created a lasting cinematic icon, and effectively spoiled the part for his successors, who all appear lumbering or lightweight by comparison. Even as a jowly 53-year-old returning for what must surely (despite the title) be his last outing in the role in Never Say Never Again, he exuded an unmistakable authority; this, beyond the least doubt, was the real James Bond.
Connery's initial attempts to assert a wider range seemed inhibited by the 007 persona, either playing variations on it—Hitchcock's predatory sadist in Marnie—or self-consciously striving to look as unlike as possible: the sweaty imprisoned NCO of The Hill, or the boozy, disreputable poet in A Fine Madness. Only with the Bond cycle (barring his late comeback) safely behind him, did a distinct cinematic identity, inherent rather than willed, start to emerge. And in many ways it was the antithesis of everything Bond had stood for.
Where Bond was firmly on the winning side, smoothly amoral, arrogant, and assured, the emergent Connery appeared a noble, shaggy anachronism, upholding lost-cause moralities in a cynical world. Dreams of outmoded heroism, splendid and futile, alike entice his Arab chieftain in The Wind and the Lion, the backwoods empire-builder of The Man Who Would Be King, the space marshal of Outland, and the ageing Robin Hood of Robin and Marian. Skillfully varying the tone from the tongue-in-cheek whirlwind rhetoric of Milius's Raisuli to the poignantly elegiac Robin, a man struggling to inhabit his own legend, Connery invests such roles with a "strong innocence" (Richard Lester's phrase), a relaxed grandeur which always retains its edge of incipient violence.
And while Bond might be a loose cannon, his shots were always fired for the benefit of the (British) establishment. Post-Bond Connery was an instinctive rebel, reaching back to his own staunchly working-class background. The defiant NCO of The Hill paved the way for Connery's grim activist miner in The Molly Maguires, and for the disruptive sexuality of Zed the Exterminator in John Boorman's sci-fi parable Zardoz, invading the enclave of the flaccid elite like sperm into an ovum.
Growing age and eminence have inevitably blunted the edge of rebellion. Increasingly Connery has found himself playing authority figures, often monarchs: Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam's quirky Time Bandits, King Arthur (touchingly tender in his October-and-April romance with Julia Ormond) in First Kniqht, stealing the whole film with an unbilled cameo as Coeur-de-Lion at the end of Kevin Costner's Robin Hood. The authority is instinctive, never pompous: in The Hunt for Red October his Russian submarine captain exudes the same effortless confidence as his veteran cop in The Untouchables, the astute William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose, and the 2,000-year-old warrior in the mystical tosh of Highlander. The teasing, knowing grin is rarely far from the surface, nor is the sexual magnetism. Connery has never troubled to maintain the illusion of youth; he's aged gracefully and handsomely, still capable of playing sexy with wit and style, every bit a match (as Indy's dad) for Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. By this stage in his career, Connery can do what he likes. He can play the voice of an animatronic dragon (Dragonheart), give a lazy performance in a mediocre film, such as Lumet's Family Business, or a downright bad performance in a terrible film (The Avengers). None of it matters, or can dent his status even fractionally. Sean Connery, in short, has gone beyond mere stardom to become an icon.
An unlikely candidate to play Ian Fleming's snobbish 007, Connery became so well known as this character that he nearly didn't break out of the mold. Despite his many years of work on the stage and screen, Connery was still being thought of as "the guy who played James Bond" into the early 1980s. But throughout his career, the stubborn Scot has taken on movie roles that interested him, regardless of how they fit his image. As a result of this shrewd thinking, he now has quite an impressive list of roles in his repertoire and critics talk more about his exceptional acting ability than his inability to break out of a role. With more than 60 movies to his credit, Connery has become one of the world's most prominent movie stars.

Life After Bond
After his split with Broccoli, he continued to pursue a variety of movie roles with his main concern being that he find them interesting. He would also do films if he felt his help was needed. He reportedly offered to be in Time Bandits for a very modest salary because he heard the producer was running into financial difficulties. With a few exceptions, however, most of the films Connery did in the decade following Diamonds Are Forever were not noteworthy.
Then, in the early 1980s, a strange thing happened. At the age of fifty-three, Connery was asked to reprise the role he had made famous, in Never Say Never Again. The movie rights to this film had been won in a long court battle by Kevin McClory, an enterprising Irishman whom Connery admired a great deal for being able to beat the system. The movie was also scheduled to go head-to-head with Octopussy,a Broccoli Bond epic featuring the new 007, Roger Moore. It seems that twist was too much to resist, and Connery signed up. Another possibility is that Connery's second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, whom he had met on the golf course in Morocco in 1970 and married in 1975, convinced him to give the role another try.
Connery drew rave reviews as an aging Bond trying to get back in shape for a daring mission. "At fifty-three, he may just be reaching the peak of his career," reported Kurt Loder in Rolling Stone. "Connery reminds you anew what star quality is all about. A good deal of that quality is on display in Never Say Never Again, a carefully crafted and quite lively addition to the lately listless Bond series." Instead of furthering any Bond typecasting by doing this film, Connery seemed to squash it.
Roles Increased with Age
In the years since, his performances seem to be getting better and better. In The Untouchables, Connery took the supporting role of Malone, a world-weary, but savvy, street cop. "It's a part that gives him ample opportunity to demonstrate his paradoxical acting abilities," wrote Benedict Nightingale in the New YorkTimes, "his knack for being simultaneously rugged and gentle, cynical and innocent, hard and soft, tough and almost tender." For his portrayal of Malone, Connery won an Academy Award.
Connery was also very strong in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where he played the scholarly father of the ever-adventurous Jones, entangling himself in a lot of adventure and intrigue. Peter Travers commented in Rolling Stone that "Connery, now fifty-eight, has been movie-star virility incarnate. Here in his scholar's tweeds, with an undisguised horror of creepy-crawly things … and armed only with an umbrella and a fountain pen, Connery plays gloriously against type."
Similarly, in his other recent roles-a monk in The Name of the Rose (1986), a deranged Russian submarine commander in The Hunt for Red October (1990), the knowledgeable police detective in Rising Sun (1993), an aging attorney in Just Cause (1995), King Arthur in First Knight (1995)-Connery continues to prove his versatility and maturity as an actor. Even as he passed age 65, Connery showed he can hold his own against Hollywood's hottest upstarts with his role as the ex-con who had once escaped from Alcatraz in the 1996 action thriller The Rock, costarring Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.
Connery has worked hard throughout his career and taken professional risks with his roles. For these efforts, he has become a greatly respected actor, almost a legend in the screen world. Patrick commented that "You suddenly realize [Connery is] the closest thing we now have to Clark Gable, an old-time movie star. Everyone knows him and likes him. It's shocking-every age group, men and women. There's something very likable about him on screen." In 1998 Connery received the Fellowship Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts highest honor. Yet, in spite of this, he remains a very conscientious worker, always trying to improve the movie he's in rather than sabotage others' performances to make himself look better. When asked whether he can now write his own ticket when he decides to star in a movie, he replied in "Premiere": "I have enough power in terms of casting approval and director approval. But I don't think it's something someone can brandish like a sword. I sense myself as much more a responsible filmmaker in terms of what's good for the overall picture, and for the actors as well, because I have had all this experience, and I've seen a lot of waste."
From humble beginnings as a school dropout, Sean Connery became a major movie star at the age of thirty-two, when he was cast as the sophisticated secret agent James Bond. Connery went on to distinguish himself in a number of major motion pictures, including his Oscar-winning performance in The Untouchables. With more than sixty movies to his credit, Connery has become one of the world's most prominent movie stars.

Awards, Honors:
Golden Globe Award (with others), male world film favorite, 1972; D.Litt., Heriot–Watt University, 1981; named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, 1984; named star of the year, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), 1987; commander, Order of Arts and Literature of France; Film Award, best actor in a leading role, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Film Strip in Gold, outstanding achievement as an actor, German Film Awards, 1987, for The Name of the Rose; National Board of Review Award, best supporting actor, Academy Award, best supporting actor, 1987, and Golden Globe Award, best actor in a supporting role, 1988, for The Untouchables; Film Award nomination, best supporting actor, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Golden Globe Award nomination, best supporting actor, 1988, for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; named "the sexiest man alive," People Weekly, 1989; named NATO/ShoWest Worldwide Star of the Year, 1990; Tribute Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1990; Film Award, best actor, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1990, for Russia House; named Freeman of City of Edinburgh, 1991; American Cinematheque Award, 1992; Rudolph Valentino Award, 1992; Career Achievement Award, National Board of Review, 1993; Saturn Award, lifetime achievement, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, 1995; Cecil B. DeMille Award, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1996; MTV Movie Award (with Nicolas Cage), best onscreen duo, Blockbuster Entertainment Award, best supporting actor in an action or adventure film, 1997, both for The Rock; body of work honored by Film Society of Lincoln Center, 1997; Academy Fellowship, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1998; Audience Award, best actor, European Film Awards, 1999, Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination, favorite actor—action, 2000, both for Entrapment; Antoinette Perry Award (with others), best play, 1998, for Art; Kennedy Center Honor Award, 1999; received knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 1999; Lifetime Achievement Award, ShoWest Conventions, 1999; Golden Satellite Award nomination, best performance by an actor in a motion picture—drama, 2001, for Finding Forrester;Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2002.
CREDITS
Film Appearances:
(Uncredited) Let's Make Up (also known as Lilacs in the Spring), United Artists, 1955.
Spike, No Road Back, RKO Radio Pictures, 1957.
Mike, Action of the Tiger, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1957.
Welder, Time Lock, Romulus–Beaconsfield, 1957.
Johnny, Hell Drivers (also known as Hard Drivers), Rank, 1957.
Mark Trevor, Another Time, Another Place, Paramount, 1958.
O'Bannion, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, Paramount, 1959.
Michael McBride, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Buena Vista, 1959.
Paddy Damion, The Frightened City, Allied Artists, 1961.
Pedlar Pascoe, On the Fiddle (also known as Operation War Head), American International Pictures, 1961, released in the United States as Operation Snafu, 1965.
Private Flanagan, The Longest Day, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1962.
James Bond, Doctor No (also known as Ian Fleming's Dr. No), United Artists, 1963.
James Bond, From Russia with Love, United Artists, 1964.
James Bond, Goldfinger (also known as Ian Fleming's Goldfinger), United Artists, 1964.
Anthony Richmond, Woman of Straw, United Artists, 1964.
Mark Rutland, Marnie, Universal, 1964.
James Bond, Thunderball (also known as Ian Fleming's Thunderball), United Artists, 1965.
Joe Roberts, The Hill, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1965.
Samson Shillitoe, A Fine Madness, Warner Bros., 1966.
(Uncredited) Himself, A New World (also known as A Young World, Un monde jeune, Un monde nouveau, and Un mondo nuovo), Lopert Pictures Corp., 1966.
James Bond, You Only Live Twice (also known as Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice), United Artists, 1967.
Moses Zebulon "Shalako" Carlin (title role), Shalako (also known as Man nennt mich Shalako), Cinerama, 1968.
Himself, The Bowler and the Bonnet (documentary), 1969.
Jack Kehoe, The Molly Maguires, Paramount, 1970.
Roald Amundson, The Red Tent (also known as Krasnaya palatka, Tsiteli karavi, and La tenda rossa), Paramount, 1971.
John Anderson, The Anderson Tapes, Columbia, 1971.
James Bond, Diamonds Are Forever (also known as Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are Forever), United Artists, 1971.
Himself, Espana campo de golf (documentary short film), 1972.
Detective Sergeant Johnson, The Offence (also known as The Offense and Something Like the Truth), United Artists, 1973.
Zed, Zardoz, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1974.
Colonel Arbuthnot, Murder on the Orient Express, Paramount, 1974.
Mulay el–Raisuli, The Wind and the Lion, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1975.
Daniel Dravot, The Man Who Would Be King (also known as Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King), Allied Artists/Columbia, 1975.
Nils Tahlvik, The Terrorists (also known as Ransom), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1975.
Himself, The Dream Factory, 1975.
Robin Hood, Robin and Marian, Columbia, 1976.
Kahlil Abdul–Muhsen, The Next Man (also known as The Arab Conspiracy and Double Hit), Allied Artists, 1976.
Major General Roy Urquhart, A Bridge Too Far, United Artists, 1977.
Edward Pierce/John Simms/Geoffrey, The Great Train Robbery (also known as The First Great Train Robbery), United Artists, 1979.
Dr. Paul Bradley, Meteor, American International Pictures, 1979.
Major Robert Dapes, Cuba, United Artists, 1979.
Marshal William T. O'Neil, Outland, Warner Bros., 1981.
King Agamemnon/fireman, Time Bandits, Embassy, 1981.
Patrick Hale, Wrong Is Right (also known as The Man with the Deadly Lens), Columbia, 1982.
Narrator, G'Ole! (documentary), Warner Bros., 1982.
Green Knight, Sword of the Valiant (also known as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight and Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Cannon, 1982.
Douglas Meredith, Five Days One Summer, Warner Bros., 1982.
James Bond, Never Say Never Again (also known as Warhead and James Bond 007—Sag niemals nie), Warner Bros., 1983.
Juan Sanchez Villa–Lobos Ramirez, Highlander, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1986.
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose (also known as Der Name der Rose, Le nom de la rose, and Il nome della rosa), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1986.
James Malone, The Untouchables, Paramount, 1987.
Himself, La rosa dei nomi (documentary) 1987.
Lieutenant Colonel Alan Caldwell, The Presidio (also known as The Presidio: The Scene of the Crime), Paramount, 1988.
Himself, Memories of Me, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists, 1988.
Dr. Henry Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Paramount, 1989.
Jessie McMullen, Family Business, TriStar, 1989.
(Uncredited) Himself, The Many Faces of Bond (documentary), 1989.
Captain Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, The Hunt for Red October, Paramount, 1990.
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, The Russia House, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists, 1990.
Juan Sanchez Villa–Lobos Ramirez, Highlander 2 (also known as Highlander 2: The Quickening, HighlanderII: The Renegade Version, and Highlander—Le retour), Interstar, 1991.
(Uncredited) King Richard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Warner Bros., 1991.
Dr. Robert Campbell, Medicine Man (also known as The Last Days of Eden), Buena Vista, 1992.
Captain John Connor, Rising Sun, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1993.
Dr. Alex Murray, A Good Man in Africa, 1994.
Paul Armstrong, Just Cause, Warner Bros., 1995.
King Arthur, First Knight, Columbia, 1995.
Himself, Three Decades of James Bond 007 (documentary short film), Brentwood Home Video, 1995.
Himself, James Bond 007: Yesterday and Today (documentary short film), Brentwood Home Video, 1995.
Himself, Behind the Scenes with "Thunderball" (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists Home Entertainment, 1995.
Himself, Behind the Scenes with "Goldfinger" (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists Home Entertainment, 1995.
John Patrick Mason, The Rock, Buena Vista, 1996.
Voice of Draco, Dragon Heart (also known as Dragonheart), Universal, 1996.
Sir August de Wynter, The Avengers, Warner Bros., 1997.
(Uncredited) God, A Life Less Ordinary, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1997.
Himself, Sean Connery Close Up (documentary), 1997.
Himself, Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (documentary), 1997.
Himself, Junket Whore, 1998.
Paul, Playing by Heart, Miramax, 1998.
Robert "Mac" MacDougal, Entrapment (also known as Verlockende Falle), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1999.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Terence Young: Bon Vivant (documentary short film), 1999.
William Forrester, Finding Forrester, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2000.
(In archive footage) James Bond, Double–O Stunts (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Home Entertainment, 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (documentary short film), 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, The Music of James Bond (documentary short film), 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Ken Adam: Designing Bond (documentary), 2000. (In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Inside Q's Laboratory (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Home Entertainment, 2000.
Himself, Inside "Dr. No" (documentary short film), 2000.
Himself, Harry Saltzman: Showman (documentary short film), 2000.
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Inside "You Only Live Twice" (documentary short film), 2000.
(In archive footage) James Bond, Inside "The Man with the Golden Gun" (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Home Entertainment, 2000.
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Inside "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (documentary short film), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Home Entertainment, 2000.
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Inside "From Russia with Love" (documentary short film), 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself, Inside "Diamonds Are Forever" (documentary short film), 2000.
Himself, Behind the Scenes: Finding Forrester (documentary), 2001.
Allan Quartermain, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (also known as LXG, The League, and Die Liga der aussergewoehnlichen Gentlemen), Twentieth Century–Fox, 2003.
Himself, Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (documentary), Paramount Home Video, 2003.
(In archive footage) Himself, Sex at 24 Frames per Second (documentary), Playboy Entertainment Group, 2003.
(In archive footage) Himself, The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast (documentary short film), Paramount Home Video, 2004.
(In archive footage) Himself, The Untouchables: Production Stories (documentary short film), Paramount Home Video, 2004.
Film Work:
Producer and director, The Bowler and the Bonnet (documentary), 1969.
Co–executive producer, Medicine Man (also known as The Last Days of Eden), Buena Vista, 1992.
Executive producer, Rising Sun, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1993.
Executive Producer, Just Cause, Warner Bros., 1995.
Executive Producer, The Rock, Buena Vista, 1996.
Producer, Entrapment (also known as Verlockende Falle), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1999.
Executive producer, Finding Forrester, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2000.
Executive producer, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (also known as LXG, The League, and Die Liga der aussergewoehnlichen Gentlemen), Twentieth Century–Fox, 2003.
Television Appearances; Miniseries:
Hotspur, An Age of Kings, 1960.
Himself, 30 Years of Billy Connolly, 1998.
Television Appearances; Movies:
Mat Burke, Anna Christie, 1957.
Mountain McClintock, Requiem for a Heavyweight, BBC, 1957.
Jewish pianist/Nazi war criminal, Women in Love, 1958.
Rick Martell, The Square Ring, 1959.
John Proctor, The Crucible, 1959.
Innes Corrie, Without the Grail, 1960.
Julien, Colombe, 1960.
Title role, Macbeth, 1961.
Count Vronsky, Anna Karenina, BBC, 1964.
McNeill, Male of the Species, 1969.
Also appeared in Boy with the Meataxe; Riders to the Sea.
Television Appearances; Specials:
Himself, The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock, CBS, 1979.
Himself, James Bond 007: Coming Attractions (documentary), 1984.
Himself, Happy Anniversary 007: Twenty–Five Years of James Bond (documentary), ABC, 1987.
100% Bonded, 1987.
The Barbara Walters Special, ABC, 1987.
Rich and Famous: 1988 World's Best, syndicated, 1988.
Host, The Prince's Trust Gala, TBS, 1989.
Premiere: Inside the Summer Blockbusters, Fox, 1989.
Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (also known as Frank Sinatra: 75th Birthday Celebration), CBS, 1990.
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold (also known as Crazy about the Movies), Cinemax, 1991.
Himself, 30 Years of James Bond (documentary), LWT, 1992.
November 22, 1993: Where Were You? A Larry King Special Live from Washington, TNT, 1993.
(In archive footage) Himself/Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn Remembered (documentary), PBS, 1993.
Himself, The World of 007 (documentary), 1995.
Himself/James Bond, In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (documentary), 1995.
(Uncredited) Himself, Happy Birthday, Shirley, ITV, 1996.
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery, Lifetime, 1997.
Interviewee, The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files, CBS, 1997.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond (documentary), 1998.
(In archive footage) Himself/Professor Henry Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: A Look Inside(documentary), 1999.
Himself, The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS, 1999.
Narrator, The Life and Times of Bobby Jones (documentary), CBS, 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself, The Trouble with Marnie (documentary), 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, John Barry: Licence to Thrill (documentary), BBC, 2000.
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond(documentary), 2000.
Himself, The James Bond Story (documentary; also known as 007: The James Bond Story), AMC, 2000.
The BBC and BAFTA Tribute to Michael Caine, 2000.
Himself, The A&E Biography: James Bond—The Secret Life of 007 (documentary), Arts and Entertainment, 2000.
(In archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Bond Girls Are Forever (documentary), AMC, 2002.
Best Ever Bond (documentary), ITV1, 2002.
Himself, James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute, BBC, 2002.
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Himself/James Bond, Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (documentary), 2002, The 2003 MLB All–Star Game, Fox, 2003.
Himself, Intimate Portrait: Vanessa Marcil (documentary), Lifetime, 2003.
Unsere Besten—Das grosse Lesen (documentary), 2004.
Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:
The 60th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1988.
The 61st Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1989.
The 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 1996.
Presenter, The 70th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1998.
Presenter, The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards, 1999.
Presenter, The 75th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2003.
Himself, The 76th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2004.
Television Appearances; Episodic:
Joe Brastad, "Ladies of the Manor," Dixon of Dock Green, BBC, 1956.
Porter, "Jack Hires Opera Singer in Rome," The Jack Benny Program, CBS, 1957.
"The Hollow Crown," Age of Kings, syndicated, 1961.
"The Road to Shrewsbury," Age of Kings, syndicated, 1961.
"Mademoiselle Colombe," Festival of the Arts, syndicated, 1962.
"The Deposing of a King," Age of Kings, syndicated, 1963.
Mystery guest, What's My Line?, CBS, 1965.
The Ed Sullivan Show, 1965.
"Male of the Species," On Stage, NBC, 1969.
The Dream Factory, 1975.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC, 1976, 1992.
Himself, The Mike Douglas Show, syndicated, 1977.
Himself, The Dame Edna Experience, ITV, 1987.
Himself, Late Show with David Letterman, NBC, 1993.
(Uncredited) Himself, Fame in the 20th Century, 1993.
Himself, "Sean Connery," Superstars of Action, 1995.
Himself, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 1996, 2003.
Voice of Great Grandfather Athair, "Flying Fortress" (also known as "Flying Fortress: Chaos Emerald Crisis: Part 1," Sonic Underground, syndicated, 1999.
Voice of Great Grandfather Athair, "No Hedgehog Is an Island" (also known as "Chaos Emerald Crisis: Part 2," Sonic Underground, syndicated, 1999.
Voice of Great Grandfather Athair, "New Echidna in Town" (also known as "Chaos Emerald Crisis: Part 3," Sonic Underground, syndicated, 1999.
Himself, Secrets of Superstar Fitness,, Discovery Health, 2002.
Himself, "World Sports Award," Leute heute, 2002.
(As Sir Sean Connery) Himself, Parkinson, BBC, 2003.
(In archive footage) Himself, Celebrities Uncensored, E! Entertainment Television, 2003.
Also appeared as guest host, Sammy and Company; Alexander, Adventure Story; voice of the dragon, "Eekscalibur," Eek! the Cat (animated); in "The Crescent and the Star," Sailor of Fortune.
Stage Tours:
(Debut) Chorus dancer, later Buzz Adams, South Pacific, British cities, 1953–54.
Also appeared in Judith; MacBeth.
Stage Work:
Producer and director, I've Seen You Cut Lemons, London, 1962.
Producer, Art, Royale Theater, New York City, 1998–99.
RECORDINGS
Videos:
Himself and James Bond, Behind the Scenes with Goldfinger, 1995.
Himself and James Bond, Behind the Scenes with Thunderball, 1995.
Albums:
Recited "In My Life" for the album In My Life (Beatles covers).
WRITINGS
Books:
Neither Shaken nor Stirred, 1994."

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