Sean Connery biography 2022
Sean Connery biography
Sean Connery was born on august 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, UK.He was a Scottish actor. He was known for his film roles as James Bond and William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose and as an ardent campaigner for Scottish independence. Connery was knighted in July 2000.
Sean Connery, movie star
After minor theater and film roles, Sean Connery became an international movie star in the part of Ian Fleming's novel character, the cynically elegant, womanizing, and humorous killer agent James Bond, in Dr. No (1962).
He played a role in a further six Bond films, the last time in 1983, but also showed talent as a character actor in, among others, A Fine Madness (1966), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
In his older days, Sean Connery played both self-deprecating and disillusioned professionals with solid personal radiance and witty lines, for example, in The Name of the Rose (1986) and The Untouchables (1987). He shone in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as the hero's father.
Up through the 1990s, Connery continued in the same vein with, among other things, The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Russia House (1990), and The Rock (1996). In 2000 came the drama Finding Forrester.
Sean Connery filmed his last Hollywood film, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, in 2003. He officially retired from acting in 2006.
Sean Connery, a Scottish activist
Connery emphasized his strong attachment to Scotland and was an active member of the SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party), which he supported financially. This contributed to his being knighted in July 2000.
Died October 31, 2020, at Lyford Cay
last updated October 2022
