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Sir Thomas Sean Connery 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
Known For
The Ed Sullivan Show
Tony Awards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
What's My Line?
Golden Globe Awards
The Wonderful World of Disney
Parkinson
The Jack Benny Program
The Merv Griffin Show
Sunday Night Theatre
Top Gear
Dixon of Dock Green
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Omnibus
The Kennedy Center Honors
An Age of Kings
Catch Me If You Can
The Oscars
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
HyperNormalisation
The Big Screen
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Time Bandits
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
The Longest Day
Murder on the Orient Express
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
Highlander
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
The Real Hunt for Red October
The Avengers
Entrapment
DragonHeart
Riders to the Sea
Highlander II: The Quickening
The Untouchables
The Untouchables: Production Stories
Marnie
Anna Karenina
The Red Tent
The Hunt for Red October
Thunderball
Goldfinger
Dr. No
Finding Forrester
The Name of the Rose
First Knight
The Guns of James Bond
Medicine Man
You Only Live Twice
The Presidio
Outland
Blood Money
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Rock
Never Say Never Again
The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast
Diamonds Are Forever
Adventure Story
From Russia with Love
Production Credits
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Medicine Man
Entrapment
The Rock
Finding Forrester
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