Sean Connery

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † October 31, 2020 in Nassau , Bahamas ) was a British actor , film producer and Oscar winner.

After becoming very popular in the 1960s in the role of secret agent James Bond , Connery established himself as a character actor from the 1970s . In 1989 he was voted the " Sexiest Man Alive " by People Magazine and in 1999, when he was 69 years old, the "Sexiest Man of the Century". Director Steven Spielberg named him one of the five best actors in the world in 1992. Connery ended his film career in 2004.

Life

Childhood and adolescence

Sean Connery's father, Joseph Connery was a truck driver and came from the Irish County Wexford . His mother, Euphemia "Effie" Maclean, was a cleaner . The father was Catholic, the mother Protestant. Connery grew up in poor circumstances. To support his family financially, he left school early and worked as a milkman for the Saint Cuthbert's Co-Operative Society and as a lifeguard. Connery enlisted in the Royal Navy for seven years at the age of 16 , but was discharged after just over two years with a duodenal ulcer .

Success as a bodybuilder

After his time in the Navy, Connery earned his living doing odd jobs, including working as a milkman, excavator driver, horse-drawn carriage driver , printer and as a furniture polisher. He also learned the French method of furniture polishing at a vocational school in Glasgow . After working at a funeral home , among other things , he would later like to tell, he specialized in polishing coffins.

It was during this time that he also decided to practice bodybuilding , focusing on weight lifting . At the same time he became a popular ( nude ) model in the Edinburgh College of Art , mostly as a Greek athlete or a Roman warrior. He also did some commercials. These part-time jobs prompted him to become even more professional in bodybuilding. In 1950 he became a Scottish bodybuilding master and took third place in the prestigious Mister Universe competition .

marriage and family

From 1962 to 1973 Sean Connery was married to the Australian actress Diane Cilento . The common child from this marriage is Jason Connery . In 1975 Connery married the painter Micheline Roquebrune, with whom he lived in Spain . The relationship remained childless, but Roquebrune brought three children into the marriage. Connery owned houses in Andalusia and the Bahamas .

His foundation

Connery was a Scottish patriot and for decades campaigned for the interests of his homeland and its people. He founded, together with the racing driver Jackie Stewart and shipbuilders Sir Iain Stewart, with its own funds, the Foundation Scottish International Educational Trust , which has two functions. On the one hand, it gives training grants to talented Scots and, on the other hand, it funds projects that they believe are beneficial to the culture, economy, environment or society of Scotland. In 1971, all of his millions in the film James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever flowed into the foundation. He had taken on the unloved role of secret agent a sixth time in order to secure the foundation financially. Sean Connery campaigned for Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom until his death and was a member and promoter of the Scottish National Party , the current ruling party, which is politically part of left-wing liberalism .

Commitment to the environment

From 2011 the vegan Sean Connery was part of the advisory board of the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd . In 2014, together with Save the Bays , he campaigned against the construction of a coast in the Bahamas . Sean Connery also supported Al Gore's climate protection project financially.

Honorary awards

On July 5, 2000, Connery was beaten by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to Scotland to a Knight Bachelor and from then on led the nobility title "Sir". The ceremony took place in Edinburgh. Connery was wearing a kilt . In his own opinion, he received the highest honor in 1991 when he was awarded the Freedom of the City by the City of Edinburgh .

death

Sean Connery died on October 31, 2020 at the age of 90 in Nassau , Bahamas .

Film career

First engagements

Connery's bodybuilding success led to his first acting engagement in the choir of a production of the musical South Pacific . From 1954 he got smaller roles in film, theater and TV productions and played, among other things, in the films Die blinde Spinne and Duell am Steuer (both 1957). Connery's colleague Michael Caine , with whom he had been friends since the late 1950s, described these years as a time of deprivation and said that the two then unknown actors were also dependent on government support.

In the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958), Sean Connery, as a lover of Lana Turner, was given a more prominent role for the first time, but was initially unable to establish himself as a star. Until the early 1960s he was seen in numerous TV and cinema productions, for example as a soldier in the lavishly produced war film The Longest Day (1962) in a few short scenes of the Allied landing in Normandy .

Success as James Bond

In the early 1960s, the two producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman prepared a film series with the secret agent James Bond, which was to be based on the popular novel series by the writer Ian Fleming . The former secret agent Fleming has published a new Bond novel once a year since 1953.

After candidates such as David Niven , Roger Moore , Cary Grant or Patrick McGoohan had initially been discussed for the Bond role - which for various reasons were out of the question - the producers turned to the relative thanks to a recommendation from director Terence Young unknown Sean Connery attentively. Connery won over Saltzman and Broccoli with his athletic appearance and self-assured demeanor and got the role. The readership of a London daily newspaper also voted for him. Director Terence Young prepared Connery, who came from a poor background, to play the role of the stylish agent who values ​​an upscale lifestyle. Writer Ian Fleming initially thought the actor was the wrong cast for the cultured Bond.

In 1962, with a relatively low budget of 1.1 million US dollar James Bond chases Dr. No produced. This first film in the Bond film series showed the British secret agent fighting the megalomaniac criminal Dr. No ( Joseph Wiseman ) supported by Jamaica of American missile launches sabotaged. Dr. No laid the foundations for the immensely successful Bond film series and brought together important personalities behind the camera in the creative team such as composer John Barry , who created the typical Bond sound, and set designer Ken Adam , who created the extravagant sets. The film became an instant hit, grossing nearly $ 60 million worldwide, and establishing 32-year-old Sean Connery as a new star.

In 1963, with a doubled budget of two million US dollars, James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow went into production, a tough agent thriller that was well received by critics and audiences and especially for the successful casting of the supporting roles with Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw and Pedro Armendáriz was praised. James Bond, charged with getting a Soviet decryption machine in Istanbul , is attacked by numerous agents, but can - with the machine and a beautiful Russian woman - reach the saving Venice .

Connery as Bond (with Tania Mallet ) in the 1964 film version of Goldfinger

The commercial success of this film, with gross revenues of around $ 79 million worldwide, was far surpassed by the third film in the Bond franchise. James Bond 007 - Goldfinger , realized in 1964 with a 3 million budget, showed the British agent fighting the megalomaniac super villain Goldfinger, who wants to detonate an atomic bomb in Fort Knox . Goldfinger grossed 125 million US dollars and finally triggered the so-called "Bondmania" of the 1960s. The film served as a kind of blueprint for the later Bond films and, with Gert Fröbe as Goldfinger, presented the role model for numerous other Bond villains. Sean Connery defined the image of Bonds as a strong action hero and irresistible heartthrob and finally established himself as a new world star. The Bond films were now accompanied by intensive merchandising campaigns.

Beginning with Goldfinger , the Bond films became more and more elaborate, fantastic and far removed from reality (and also moved further and further away from the literary models of Ian Fleming, who died in 1964). Expensive set designs, extravagant gadgets and long fight scenes with several dozen stuntmen were mandatory for a Bond adventure from the mid-1960s. For this reason, the production budget for Fireball (1965) was tripled to $ 9 million. In the fight against a secret organization that is blackmailing Western governments with two stolen atomic bombs, Bond proves himself in complex underwater battles. With a worldwide grossing of 141 million US dollars, Fireball became one of the greatest film hits of the 1960s and remained the most commercially successful Bond film until 1977. With inflation-adjusted box office earnings of over $ 1 billion, Fireball is the most successful film in the series and Connery's biggest blockbuster.

In the mid-1960s, Sean Connery was increasingly dissatisfied with the role of James Bond, which no longer challenged him as an actor and focused on a narrowed image. In addition, Connery was disturbed by the extremely long filming of the films, which lasted up to six months. During the production of You Only Live Twice , the actor announced his departure from the Bond film series in 1967. The producers tried in vain to dissuade Connery, who was apparently also dissatisfied with his fee, from his decision. You Only Live Twice became the last Bond film for Connery for the time being and showed him fighting the villainous Blofeld ( Donald Pleasence ), who hijacked Russian and American space missiles. The most spectacular setting for the film was a huge volcanic crater built by production designer Ken Adam on the site of Pinewood Studios . You Only Live Twice grossed over $ 111 million on a budget of $ 9.5 million.

After George Lazenby took over the role of Bond in James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) , the producers made a contract with the American actor John Gavin . At United Artists , however, they wanted Sean Connery again as Bond and tried to get him to return. Connery accepted for the record fee of 1.25 million US dollars, which he donated to the Scottish International Educational Trust , which he founded , and played the secret agent for the sixth and last time in James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever (1971). In this film Bond fights against diamond smugglers and his old enemy Blofeld, who is blackmailing the nuclear powers with a dangerous laser satellite . This Bond film was also a huge hit, with grossing $ 116 million worldwide. The budget was $ 7.2 million. In 1973 Roger Moore took on the role of James Bond.

In 1972 Connery was awarded the Golden Globe Award as the world's most popular actor alongside Charles Bronson .

More films in the 1960s

Already at the beginning of the 1960s, parallel to the first James Bond films, Connery appeared in the monumental war film The Longest Day, which was cast with a star ensemble . After he had established himself as a box-office star as James Bond, he was engaged as a leading actor in other productions from 1964. Alfred Hitchcock hired the actor for the thriller melodrama Marnie , in which Connery falls in love with the eponymous kleptomaniac Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ). In contrast to his earlier films, star director Hitchcock and Marnie did not meet with a positive response from either the audience or the critics. In the thriller Die Strohpuppe (1964) Connery was seen as a bon vivant who, with the help of his lover ( Gina Lollobrigida ), wants to get the money of his rich uncle ( Ralph Richardson ).

In 1965, Connery appeared in A Pile of Great Dogs as a prisoner in a British military prison camp during World War II . The black and white film depicts the brutal humiliation to which the prisoners are exposed in harsh realism and is considered a classic. Connery and director Sidney Lumet worked together several times later. With the comedy Samson is unbeatable , in which he appeared as a poet and womanizer, Connery did not achieve a box-office success in 1966. His first and last appearance as a western hero in Shalako (1968) and his portrayal of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in the Soviet production The Red Tent (1969) also met with little interest.

Despite his enormous popularity as a Bond actor, Sean Connery was not able to record a real box-office hit with any of his other films in the 1960s.

Since Connery's scalp hair thinned considerably at a young age , he wore a toupee (which he apparently did not appreciate) in most of the films of this decade . In all Bond films that Connery made, he was seen with artificial hair.

The 1970s

Sean Connery in 1971

From the 1970s onwards, Sean Connery sharpened his profile as a character actor and played several roles in films with a high level of artistic and content that differed greatly from the James Bond films. The appearance of the actor had also changed significantly and, aged, usually without a toupee and with more weight, hardly remembered the dashing agent actor of the 1960s.

In Cursed to Doomsday (1970) Sean Connery starred alongside Richard Harris - the film portrayed the extremely harsh living conditions of Irish miners in Pennsylvania in 1876. In 1971, Connery joined The Anderson Clan , again directed by Sidney Lumet as an ex- prisoner planning a new coup in New York . In the reality-based drama His Life in My Violence (1972), the actor played a police inspector who abuses a suspect of child sexual abuse so severely that he dies. Sidney Lumet directed it again. John Boorman directed Sean Connery in 1974 in the unusual science fiction film Zardoz , in which the actor can be seen as an "exterminator" in a post-apocalyptic world. Connery did almost the entire film in tight boxer shorts. These films often received good reviews but failed to benefit from Connery's notoriety in commercial terms.

Also in 1974, Connery was part of a top-class ensemble in the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express . Directed again was Sidney Lumet, who had a solid success with the film. In the terrorist thriller The Clock is Running Out (1974), Connery acted as the Swedish colonel.

In the mid-1970s, Sean Connery made several critically acclaimed adventure films that are now considered classics but received little response from audiences: The Wind and the Lion (1975, directed by John Milius ), The Man Who Wanted to Be King (1975, directed by John Huston ) ; and Robin and Marian (1976, directed by Richard Lester ). In these films, the actor presented himself as a mature character actor in a wide variety of roles - as a Berber prince , British adventurer and aged Robin Hood - and played alongside high-profile colleagues such as Christopher Plummer , Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Audrey Hepburn or his old friend Michael Caine . Connery's depictions were also characterized by humorous, self-deprecating undertones, with which, for example, the advancing age of the characters he played was alluded to.

The thriller Oil (1976), in which Connery appeared as an Arab politician , flopped with critics and audiences. In Richard Attenborough's lavish war film The Bridge of Arnhem (1977), which depicts the historic Operation Market Garden from 1944, the actor appeared alongside a dozen other stars as a paratrooper general. The film was a box office hit.

The last three films that Sean Connery made in the 1970s proved to be less successful. In the historical adventure film The Great Train Robbery , Connery played alongside Donald Sutherland a train robber in Victorian England and performed dangerous stunts on moving trains. Richard Lester directed Connery in Explosion in Cuba (1979), in which the actor can be seen as a former officer who trained Cuban military in 1959 . The time-typical disaster film Meteor (1979) with Connery as a scientist was panned by the criticism and fell through with the audience.

Of the films that Sean Connery made alongside Diamond Fever in the 1970s, only a few made it through the box office, and none of them even came close to the box office results of the popular James Bond films. Although the actor was able to build on his reputation as a character actor, he was ultimately not a commercially strong star during this decade and recorded his greatest successes with the ensemble films Mord im Orient-Express and Die Brücke von Arnheim .

From the late 1970s onwards, Connery took legal action against various film producers because he saw himself cheated out of fees or profit sharing. He also litigated the James Bond producer Broccoli, among others. He also sued his former financial advisor for embezzlement and fraud. These processes often dragged on for years. In order to enforce his financial claims against producers or film studios, Connery was later involved in litigation.

The 1980s

Sean Connery, 1983

Even in the early 1980s, Sean Connery was not very successful at first. In the science fiction thriller Outland - Planet of the Damned (1981), a kind of twelve o'clock in space , he appeared as the marshal of a space station . The parodic time travel film Time Bandits became a big box-office hit in 1981 with grossing US $ 42 million, but only showed Connery in a minor supporting role as King Agamemnon . In On the Edge of the Abyss (1982), the last film by star director Fred Zinnemann , he acted as the lover of a younger woman, to whom an unpleasant competition arises in a young man. Richard Brooks directed the political thriller Flames on the Horizon in 1982 , in which Connery appeared as a journalist .

After Sean Connery had not shot any big box office hits, the 53-year-old actor made a comeback as a popular star in 1983 - in his by far most famous role as James Bond. Since the early 1960s, film producer Kevin McClory had partial rights to the James Bond story Fireball , which he had helped develop. McClory had tried since the 1970s, a modernized fireball - remake to produce, was also entangled by the producers of the Bond movies in a long-running legal dispute. When the court finally allowed him to shoot the remake, McClory managed to get Sean Connery to work on another Bond film. The actor was convinced on the one hand by a fee of 5 million US dollars, but on the other hand saw the chance to finally get revenge on the long-time Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli , because he was financially out of him always saw treated unfairly.

Never say never wasstagedby Irvin Kershner in 1983and showed Connery as aged and graying Bond at the side of Kim Basinger and in the fight against Klaus Maria Brandauer , who played the villainous Maximilian Largo. With Sag nie, Connery never competed directly with his Bond successor, Roger Moore, with whom he was good friends and who appeared in Octopussy thatsame year. With $ 160 million in grossing, Sag never never became a box office hit, making it almost as successful as Octopussy, who grossed $ 187 million. This was Sean Connery's seventh and final appearance as James Bond. For many viewers, his interpretation of the role is the best representation of the legendary secret agent to this day.

According to Sag Never Never , Connery succeeded in building a second career as a mature character actor and in capturing a new generation of viewers for himself. The Bond film was the first in a series of spectacular box office hits with which the actor stabilized his career in the 1980s and 1990s. Although Connery was a generation older than the big stars of the era, he established himself as a reliable box-office magnet for years. After the fantasy film Camelot - The Curse of the Golden Sword (1984), in which Connery was seen as a knight , Connery was seen in another fantasy film in 1986: In Highlander , he played a prominent supporting role as an immortal alongside the main actor Christopher Lambert and as a wise teacher of the young hero found a suitable new role subject, in which he was successful for around 15 years. Highlander became a cult film .

The bestseller adaptation The Name of the Rose (1986) could Connery and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in the role of detective gifted monk William of Baskerville great success won (grossing: US $ 77 million). Here, too, the actor was seen in the role of an experienced mentor . The name of the rose was very successful, especially in Europe, and for Connery it became the biggest box-office hit beyond the Bond films.

The next year, the gangster thriller Die Unbrechlichen , in which Connery was again seen as the wise teacher of a younger man (director: Brian de Palma ), proved to be just as successful . Together with the young FBI agent Eliot Ness ( Kevin Costner ), he brings down the notorious Al Capone ( Robert De Niro ) as an Irish police officer . With grossing US $ 76 million, the film was a worldwide box office success and immediately earned Sean Connery the coveted film award for Best Supporting Actor on his first and only Oscar nomination . Connery was almost never considered for film awards until the 1980s.

After the thriller Presidio (1988), which found little audience, one of the biggest box office hits of his career followed for Sean Connery. Director Steven Spielberg was so enthusiastic about the character actor's charisma that he tailored the role of Professor Jones' father for the third Indiana Jones film. So Connery appeared in Indiana Jones in 1989 and the last crusade alongside Harrison Ford as the unworldly father of the well-known adventurer (in fact, he is only twelve years older than Ford). His presentation met with an almost unanimous positive response from critics and the public. With gross revenues of nearly $ 200 million, the film became one of the big box office hits of 1989.

Connery was less successful with the comedic crime film Family Business (1989), which failed both critics and audiences and in which he was seen as the father of Dustin Hoffman , who was only seven years his junior . With Family Business , Connery's decades of collaboration with star director Sidney Lumet also ended.

Connery's newfound popularity was also reflected in the fact that the 59-year-old was voted Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine in 1989 .

1990s and 2000s, retired

Sean Connery (1980)

In 1990 Connery was able to record another major film success with the action thriller Hunt for Red October . The actor appeared in the role of a Soviet submarine commander who kidnapped a submarine of the Soviet Navy to the west and thus opened a dramatic hunt under water. This film also grossed almost $ 200 million. Also in 1990 Connery was seen in Das Russland-Haus as a publisher who was recruited by the British secret service and embroiled in an espionage affair in Russia . Connery's partners were Michelle Pfeiffer and Klaus Maria Brandauer . Connery appeared in this film in a deliberately neglected appearance ("I look like an unmade bed with a plastic bag hanging on") and received mostly good reviews for his portrayal of the hard-drinking publisher.

The films Highlander II (1991), Medicine Man - The Last Days of Eden (1992), in which he plays an old biologist who tries to save the rainforests , The Last Hero of Africa (1994) and In the Swamp of Crime (1995), in which he wants to prevent a death sentence as a lawyer. In the international box office success Robin Hood - King of Thieves , Connery had a spectacular short appearance in 1991 - at the end of the film he meets the title hero played by Kevin Costner in the role of Richard the Lionheart . He donated all of his salary of $ 250,000 for just two days of shooting to charity. In 1992, Steven Spielberg named Connery one of the top five actors in the world. In 1993 he played alongside Wesley Snipes in the successful thriller The Cradle of the Sun , which was set in the milieu of Japanese business people.

In 1992 Connery founded the production company Fountainbridge Films , with which he produced several films. These include B .: Tempting Trap and Forrester - Found! . The company was dissolved in 2002.

The historical adventure film The First Knight (1995), in which Connery starred alongside Richard Gere as Lancelot in the role of King Arthur , received mixed reviews and failed to meet commercial expectations. For the fantasy film Dragonheart , the actor dubbed the character of the fire-breathing dragon Draco. The dragon was a fully computer-generated figure whose facial expressions had been adapted to those of Connery. In 1996 he shot the lavishly produced action film The Rock alongside Nicolas Cage , which was set on the former prison island of Alcatraz . The 66-year-old Connery completed several action scenes and had one of his greatest successes with this international blockbuster , which grossed $ 325 million. Connery's fee for this film had risen to $ 12 million.

In 1998 Sean Connery played the super villain Sir August de Wynter in With Umbrella, Charm and Melon . The lavishly produced film adaptation of the popular television series met with a very poor response from both critics and audiences. For his role, Connery was also nominated for the negative award Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actor. In the same year, Connery could also be seen in the ensemble film Leben und Liebe in LA for the small fee of 60,000 US dollars . In 1999 he played alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones in the romantic thriller Tempting Trap, an aging master thief who falls in love with a young colleague. The film was successful at the box office, but critics complained that the 69-year-old Connery was no longer entirely credible in the role of the action hero and lover. For this film, Sean Connery received the highest salary of his career with $ 20 million.

Critics and audiences reacted largely positively to Connery's next film, Forrester - Found! (2000), in which he can be seen as a hermit writer who befriends a young man. Connery was originally intended for the role of the wise wizard Gandalf in the film series The Lord of the Rings , but he turned it down due to problems understanding the extensive Tolkien world . A few years earlier, for similar reasons, he had already rejected the character of Morpheus in the no less successful Matrix films.

Connery's last film was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), an action adventure with fantasy elements, in which he played the role of the adventurer Allan Quatermain , alongside other literary characters such as Captain Nemo , Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer . With grossing US $ 175 million, the film was a box office hit, despite the tendency towards poor reviews.

In 2005 Sean Connery spoke the part of James Bond for a video game version of James Bond 007 - From Moscow with Love . However, he no longer wanted to work as a film actor and retired in 2006. In 2007 he turned down - despite talks with George Lucas , Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg - a role in the fourth part of the Indiana Jones series.

Connery has not appeared in any other films since. On August 25, 2008, Connery's 78th birthday, his autobiography Being a Scot was published .

In September 2010, Harrison Ford said he was dying to see Sean Connery return on Indiana Jones 5. In the fourth film in the series, however, Jones informed viewers that his father had now passed away. Connery can be seen for seconds on a portrait photo that is on the son's desk - this was the actor's last "appearance" in a movie.

Accent and voice actor

Connery always spoke his roles with a Scottish accent, which was sometimes found inappropriate by critics - for example, when Connery portrayed a Berber prince in The Wind and the Lion or later in Highlander a Spanish nobleman. This problem does not arise in the German dubbed versions of his films. From the early 1960s on, Connery was almost exclusively dubbed by Gert Günther Hoffmann . Other speakers were Heinz Drache , Klaus Kindler , Benno Gellenbeck and Michael Chevalier . Since Hoffmann fell ill in the mid-1990s (he died in 1997), Connery no longer had a permanent voice actor. Since then he has been spoken of by Klaus Kindler, Manfred Wagner , Gerhard Paul and Klaus Sonnenschein , among others . The role of the computer-created dragon Draco in the fantasy film Dragonheart (1996), which Connery lent his voice in English, was spoken in German by Mario Adorf .

Controversy

Connery caused a sensation when, in a 1965 interview for Playboy magazine about the Bond character, he took the view that a man might have the right (if nothing else works and she was warned clearly and repeatedly) to hit a woman , and this view later, e.g. B. in a television interview with Barbara Walters in 1987, affirmed. In 2006, however, he distanced himself from these statements.

miscellaneous

In Asterix Volume 26 The Odyssey is one of the main characters, the druid and spy Nullnullsix , both modeled after the actor Sean Connery and a reference to his portrayal of the secret agent James Bond (zero-zero-seven).

Filmography (selection)

Video games

  • 2005: From Russia with Love, voice actor for James Bond

Awards

Sean Connery in a kilt in Washington DC on Tartan Day in 2004

literature

  • Sean Connery, Murray Grigor: Being a Scot. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-297-85540-8 .
    • German translation: Sean Connery, Murray Grigor: My Scotland, my life. Translated from the English by Stefan Gebauer. Ullstein, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-550-08775-2 . (Autobiography)
  • Michael Feeney Callan: Sean Connery. Stein & Day, New York City 1983, ISBN 0-8128-2932-8 .
    • German translation: Michael Feeney Callan: Sean Connery. His films - his life . German translation by Sylvia Madsack. Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-86076-4 .
  • Adolf Heinzlmeier : Sean Connery. License to film . Film library. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-203-84116-9 .
  • John Parker: Arise Sir Sean Connery. The Biography of Britain's Greatest Living Actor. Blake Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 1-84454-084-7 .
    • German translation: John Parker: Sean Connery. The biography. From the American by Adelheid Zöfel and Christine Strüh. Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-64014-4 .
  • Siegfried Tesche: Sean Connery. His life, his films. Henschel, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-362-0 .
  • Aaron Smyth (Ed.): Sean Connery. A tribute in photographs . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-882-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sean Connery  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... as Sir Sean Connery £ 1 per week earned (English)
  2. ↑ Report on Hilary Buchanan, who painted Sean Connery at the Edinburgh College of Art (English)
  3. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 203.
  4. ↑ Sea Shepherd welcomes James Bond 007 star Sean Connery, world-class surfer Stephanie Gilmore and award-winning television producer Sam Simon to join its international advisory board. Accessed June 3, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Jade Wright: Why I'm a vegan. November 1, 2007, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ owbewcirk: Sir Sean Connery Lends his voice to Save The Bays | IEyeNews. Retrieved June 3, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Sean Connery advertises Louis Vuitton - derStandard.at. Retrieved June 3, 2020 (Austrian German).
  8. ^ The London Gazette : No. 55950, p. 9336 , August 22, 2000.
  9. ↑ Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90. In: BBC.com. October 31, 2020, accessed on October 31, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Actor Sean Connery is dead. In: Tagesschau.de. October 31, 2020, accessed November 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 102 ff.
  12. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 140 f.
  13. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 138.
  14. ↑ Production Notes - Diamonds Are Forever on mi6-hq.com , accessed January 30, 2020
  15. ↑ Documentation Inside Diamonds Are Forever on the DVD James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber (Ultimate Edition), MGM, 2006
  16. ↑ Production Notes - Diamonds Are Forever on mi6-hq.com , accessed January 30, 2020
  17. ↑ Budget and box office results for Diamantenfieber , imdb.de
  18. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 128 ff.
  19. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 224 ff.
  20. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 306 f.
  21. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 308 f.
  22. ↑ IMDb.com
  23. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 9.
  24. ^ Sean Connery closes his LA-based Fountainbridge Films
  25. ↑ Cinema : Background article Full of the role: Hollywoods cast carousel issue 02/11, p. 81.
  26. ↑ Ford wants Connery in "Indiana Jones 5"
  27. ↑ John Parker: Sean Connery. Heyne, Munich 2005, p. 160 f.
  28. ↑ Playboy Interview: Sean Connery 1965 (Facsimile). The James Bond 007 Dossier, May 4, 2013, accessed March 13, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Playboy Interview, November 1965. A smack of Sean Connery, August 8, 2008, accessed March 13, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Report in the Scotland Herald of June 25, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Connery, Sean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connery, Thomas Sean (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Scottish actor, film producer and Oscar winner
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2020
Place of death Nassau , Bahamas