Sean Connery biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Thomas Sean Connery
British nationality
Birth August 25, 1930 (Edinburgh – Scotland)
Death October 31, 2020 at the age of 90 (Nassau – Bahamas)

BIOGRAPHY
After brief studies and a stint in the navy, Sean Connery worked several jobs, in turn delivery driver, mason or coffin varnisher, before turning to the theater. Beginning on the stage in 1951, he took his first steps in the cinema in 1955 in Geordie by Frank Launder and On the Edge of the Volcano by Terence Young .

In 1961, he won a competition organized by the London Express and intended to discover the actor likely to embody on screen James Bond, the hero imagined by Ian Fleming . Became ” the most famous star in the world ” and Sean Connery will play agent 007 six times, in James Bond 007 vs. Dr. No , Good Kisses from Russia , Goldfinger , Operation Thunder , You Only Live Twice and in Diamonds are eternal in 1971.

On this date, the actor decided to break with this character which brought him notoriety but which imprisoned him in a single role, even if filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock with No Spring for Marnie or Sidney Lumet for The Hill of Lost Men , have already allowed him to demonstrate the extent of his game.

Continuing in the same spirit, Sean Connery then toured under the direction of John Boorman in Zardoz and with John Huston in The Man Who Would Be King , before taking on the role of the most famous secret agent one last time in Never Again by Irvin Kershner in 1983.

Touring less from the mid-80s, he multiplied the compositional roles and played on his maturity, notably with Jean-Jacques Annaud ), where in the skin of the monk Guillaume de Baskerville he leads subtle investigations for The Name of the Rose in 1986. From secondary characters, he creates the essential springs of the story, whether it is the mentor of Christophe Lambert in Highlander or of Malone, Kevin Costner ‘s partner in The Incorruptibles by Brian De Palma , performance for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Father of Indiana Jones in the third installment of Steven Spielberg

‘s famous saga , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, we find it in The Hunt for Red October by John McTiernan , Rock by Michael Bay , or even in Meeting Forrester by Gus Van Sant . After three years of absence, Sean Connery made his return to the big screen in 2003 with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Stephen Norrington .