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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) 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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.

Filmography

1996
The Rock

as John Patrick Mason

Movie
1996
DragonHeart

as Draco (voice)

Movie
1990
The Hunt for Red October

as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius

Movie
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

as Professor Henry Jones

Movie
1988
The Presidio

as Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell

Movie
1986
The Name of the Rose

as William of Baskerville

Movie
1986
Highlander

as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez

Movie
1983
Never Say Never Again

as James Bond

Movie
1981
Outland

as Marshal William T. O'Niel

Movie
1974
Murder on the Orient Express

as Colonel Arbuthnot

Movie
1971
Diamonds Are Forever

as James Bond

Movie
1967
You Only Live Twice

as James Bond

Movie
1965
Thunderball

as James Bond

Movie
1964
Goldfinger

as James Bond

Movie
1963
From Russia with Love

as James Bond

Movie
1962
Dr. No

as James Bond

Movie