Birth Name
Thomas Sean Connery
Nickname
Big Tam (as a teenager)
Biography
Sean Connery found fame and fortune as the suave, sophisticated British agent, James Bond. After six Bond films, Connery yearned to break from the Bond image, and eventually earned an Oscar as veteran...
Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. His mother, Euphamia C. Maclean, was a cleaning lady, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck drive...
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Spouse
Micheline Roquebrune (6 May 1975 - present)
Diane Cilento (6 December 1962 - 6 September 1973) (divorced); 1 child
Trade Mark
Frequently plays tough no-nonsense characters
Powerful deep voice
Other Work
TV commercial: Teekanne, a German tea brand (2000)
TV commercial (Italy): RAS Insurance (2002)
Unproduced screenplay: In the 1970s worked with Kevin McClory on the script for a James Bond film that didn't get produced.
Print advertisement: Jim Beam bourbon whiskey (1966)
TV commercial: Level 3 Communications (2002, 2004)
TV commercial: PSA for World Food Programme (WFP), 2004
Biography print
Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa (contributor). _The Films of Sean Connery (rev. ed.)._ Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1997.ISBN 0806518375
Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa. _The Films of Sean Connery._ 3rd edition. New York: Citadel Press, 2001.ISBN 0806522232
Bob McCabe. _Sean Connery._ Thunder's Mouth,
Michael Feeney Callan. _Sean Connery._ London: Virgin Publishing, 2002.ISBN 1852279923
Kenneth Passingham. _Sean Connery._ 1984.
Emma Andrews. _The Films of Sean Connery._ Isle of Wight, UK: BCW Publishing Ltd., 1974. ISBN 0 904159 44 2
Personal quotes
I was called Sean long before I was an actor, I had an Irish buddy whenI was 12 named Seamus -- pronounced Shay-mus. So they nicknamed usSeamus and Shawn and it stuck.
I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character likethat does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek otherroles.
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face,like [Alfred Hitchcock (I)] or [Pablo Picasso].
I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctorfor a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - "butyou're not young, you're 40".
Some age, others mature.
[on turning down the role of Gandolf in the first "Lord of the Rings"film] I had never read [J.R.R. Tolkien], and I didn't understandthe script when they sent it to me. Bobbits? Hobbits?
Portrayed in
"Saturday Night Live" (1975)
Salary
Playing by Heart (1998): $60,000.00
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991): $1,900,000.00
Entrapment (1999): $20,000,000.00
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991): $3,500,000.00
The Hunt for Red October (1990): $4,000,000.00
Finding Forrester (2000): $15,000,000.00
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003): $17,000,000.00
The Rock (1996): $12,000,000.00
Goldfinger (1964): $500,000.00
Thunderball (1965): $750,000.00
Dr. No (1962): $17,000.00
From Russia with Love (1963): $250,000.00
Zardoz (1974): $200,000.00
First Knight (1995): $9,000,000.00
Pictorial
"Plus Magazine" (Netherlands), February 2010, "Afvallen? Neem een man! (as James Bond 007)"
"TVFilm" (Netherlands), 2 January 2010, Iss. 1, "The Rock (2 pictures)"
"TVFilm" (Netherlands), 12 April 2008, Iss. 8, "A Bridge too Far 1.25 Dld.1"
"Totaal TV" (Netherlands), 1 March 2008, Iss. 5, by: Totaal TV, "Time Bandits (Picture of Sean Connery as Agamemnon)"
"Der Spiegel" (Germany), 2008, Iss. 20, pg. 189, "Connery 77"
"In Style" (Germany), March 2001, Vol. 3, Iss. 3, pg. 190, "Damals.."
Biographical movie
Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (1997)
Filmography
Dr. No (1962) Adventure
Gilles Jacob, l'arpenteur de la croisette (2010) (TV) Documentary
Goldfinger (1964) Adventure
Sir Billi (2010) Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Adventure
Casper och den förbjudna filmen (2009) (TV) Biography
Der Name der Rose (1986) Mystery
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso (2009) Documentary
Hollywood sul Tevere (2009) Documentary
Robin and Marian (1976) Adventure
