Sean Connery

1930-

Biography: life and films

Sean Connery is a Scottish actor and producer whose birth name is Thomas Sean Connery. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK on 25th August 1930.

His best films as an actor include Terence Young's thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Guy Hamilton's Goldfinger (1964), Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Sean Connery has so far appeared in 71 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Sidney Lumet (5 films), Terence Young (4), Russell Mulcahy (2), Richard Lester (2), Peter Hyams (2), John McTiernan (2), Irvin Kershner (2) and Guy Hamilton (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (31 films), Thriller (29), crime-thriller (11), Fantasy (10), comedy (9), romance (6), history (5), War (5), comedy-drama (3), Animation (3), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Sean Connery over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Lilacs in the Spring (1954) [a]

Action of the Tiger (1957) [a]

Hell Drivers (1957) [a]

No Road Back (1957) [a]

Time Lock (1957) [a]

Another Time, Another Place (1958) [a]

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) [a]

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) [a]

On the Fiddle (1961) [a]

The Frightened City (1961) [a]

Dr. No (1962) [a]

The Longest Day (1962) [a]

From Russia with Love (1963) [a]

Goldfinger (1964) [a]

Marnie (1964) [a]

Woman of Straw (1964) [a]

The Hill (1965) [a]

Thunderball (1965) [a]

A Fine Madness (1966) [a]

Un monde nouveau (1966) [a]

You Only Live Twice (1967) [a]

Shalako (1968) [a]

Krasnaya palatka (1969) [a]

The Molly Maguires (1970) [a]

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) [a]

The Anderson Tapes (1971) [a]

The Offence (1972) [a]

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]

Zardoz (1974) [a]

Ransom (1975) [a]

The Dream Factory (1975) [a]

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) [a]

The Wind and the Lion (1975) [a]

Robin and Marian (1976) [a]

The Next Man (1976) [a]

A Bridge Too Far (1977) [a]

Cuba (1979) [a]

Meteor (1979) [a]

The First Great Train Robbery (1979) [a]

Outland (1981) [a]

Time Bandits (1981) [a]

Five Days One Summer (1982) [a]

Wrong Is Right (1982) [a]

Never Say Never Again (1983) [a]

G'olé! (1984) [a]

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) [a]

Highlander (1986) [a]

The Name of the Rose (1986) [a]

The Untouchables (1987) [a]

The Presidio (1988) [a]

Family Business (1989) [a]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) [a]

The Hunt for Red October (1990) [a]

The Russia House (1990) [a]

Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) [a]

Medicine Man (1992) [a]

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992) [a]

Rising Sun (1993) [a]

The Princess and the Cobbler (1993) [a]

A Good Man in Africa (1994) [a]

First Knight (1995) [a]

Just Cause (1995) [a]

Dragonheart (1996) [a]

The Rock (1996) [a]

Playing by Heart (1998) [a]

The Avengers (1998) [a]

Entrapment (1999) [a]

Finding Forrester (2000) [a]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) [a]

Sir Billi (2012) [a]



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