Thomas Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 25, 1930. Born to a truck driver and a cleaning lady, Sean Connery came to be known by his middle name early on. Sean Connery’s first source of employment came as a milkman, but he soon enlisted in the Royal Navy before finding other work as a model, a driver and from polishing coffins.
Bodybuilding was another interest for Sean Connery, and in 1953, he participated in the Mr. Universe competition, where another participant told him to pursue acting. After a few brief spots on British television, he got his first American TV role as a guest star on The Jack Benny Program in 1957, and in 1959, he costarred in the Walt Disney film Darby O’Gill and the Little People. The latter earned him a fan in producer Albert Broccoli, who would change his life and career dramatically in 1962.
Sean Connery is bond, james bond
In 1962, Albert Broccoli was developing a film adaptation of author Ian Fleming’s classic spy character, James Bond. After stars like Cary Grant turned the role down, the studio’s revised budget forced Broccoli and company to cast a lesser-known actor, so they chose Sean Connery. Fleming himself objected to it, calling Sean Connery “an overgrown stuntman,” but the Scottish actor had the last laugh. 1962′s Dr. No was the first of five successful James Bond films in six years, ending with You Only Live Twice, after which Sean Connery quit the role, over financial and typecasting concerns.
Although he was working on other high-profile projects, like Alfred Hitchock’s Marnie (1964), audiences adored Sean Connery as 007, and in 1971, he was wooed back with a hefty paycheck by Broccoli for Diamonds Are Forever. Sean Connery again said that he would never play Bond again, but financial issues and the opportunity to participate in the script process earned him the chance to play James Bond one last time. This came in 1983′s aptly titled Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball (1965) and the only James Bond film to be produced outside of the Broccoli family and EON Productions.
Sean Connery stars in the untouchables and the hunt for red october
The success of Never Say Never Again re-established Sean Connery as a box-office draw, even though the actual filming experience left him somewhat disillusioned. After a few years away from acting, he returned in 1986 in The Name of the Rose, a European film that won him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The following year, he starred as a fearless cop, Jimmy Malone, alongside Kevin Costner and Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. The film was a big success, and Sean Connery won his first (and only) Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Sean Connery’s box-office roll continued through 1989 and into 1990. In 1989, he played the father to Harrison Ford’s iconic archaeologist in the third Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Just a year later, he received only two weeks notice before taking on the role of Lithuanian submarine captain Marko Ramius opposite Alec Baldwin in the Oscar-nominated Jack Ryan adventure The Hunt for Red October.
Sean Connery stars in the rock and entrapment
Although Sean Connery was past 60 years of age, the rest of the ’90s saw the actor continue a steady stream of acting. In 1996, he teamed up with Oscar-winner-of-the-moment Nicolas Cage for the high-octane action thriller The Rock. The film was a crowd-pleaser that also harkened back to Sean Connery’s Bond films, since he was playing an imprisoned, former secret service agent. 1999 saw Sean Connery star as an expert thief opposite Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment, another box office success.
Sean Connery’s recent films haven’t earned him the same critical or commercial success that he previously enjoyed. While he earned some critical kudos for Finding Forrester (2000), the film only performed marginally at the box office, and his 2003 film, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was an outright flop. Sean Connery has since retired from acting, even spurning the opportunity to star in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in order to complete work on his autobiography and enjoy his free time. Whether Sean Connery returns to acting or stays retired, he has already blessed movie fans of current and future generations with enough iconic characters and memorable films to forever solidify his shrine in Hollywood history.
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