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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988,...
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From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love (1963) is the second spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young....
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You Only Live Twice
You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same...
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Dr. No
Dr. No (1962), starring Sean Connery, is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was directed by Terence Young, and produced by...
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Goldfinger
Goldfinger (1964) is the third spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy...
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman. It was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine and directed by Richard Attenborough.
The film tells the story...
Action of the Tiger
Action of the Tiger is a 1957 film distributed by MGM, directed by Terence Young, and starring Van Johnson and Martine Carol.
The plot is about the rescue of a political prisoner held in Albania. Carson, played by Van Johnson, is an American...
Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place is a 1958 film melodrama starring Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan and Sean Connery.
An American reporter (Turner) working in Europe during World War II begins an affair with a British reporter (Connery). She's conflicted on...
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) is a Walt Disney Pictures feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by...
Dragonheart
Dragonheart is a 1996 fantasy–adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery.
The music for the film was composed by Randy Edelman, and the main theme song, ...
Entrapment
Entrapment (1999) is an American film directed by Jon Amiel, and starring British actors Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. This is 20th Century Fox's first film co-produced with Regency Enterprises.
Virginia "Gin" Baker (Zeta-Jones) is an...
Family Business
Family Business is a 1989 film directed by Sidney Lumet with a screenplay by Vincent Patrick, based on his novel. It stars Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick.
Jessie McMullen is a widower, a tough guy and proud of his past as a...
First Knight
First Knight is a 1995 American romantic fantasy adventure film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Ben Cross as Malagant.
The film...
Hell Drivers
Hell Drivers is a 1957 British film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan.
The plot of Hell Drivers circles around Joe 'Tom' Yateley (Baker) who is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past...
Highlander
Highlander is a 1986 fantasy action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film has inspired a franchise that includes film sequels and...
Highlander II: The Quickening
Highlander II: The Quickening is the second installment to the Highlander film series, released on November 1, 1991 by Interstar.
In August 1994, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean...
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Marnie
Marnie (1964) is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. The original film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann.
Marnie Edgar ...
Meteor
Meteor is a 1979 disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.
It was...
No Road Back
No Road Back is a 1957 British B picture crime drama, notable mainly for being the first major film role for future filmstar Sean Connery. Connery's role is that of a minor gangster, Spike, who has a speech impediment.
Outland
Outland is an 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams.
Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, that is, a Western set in the future, and indeed bears obvious thematic resemblances to High Noon.
The...
Rising Sun
Rising Sun is a 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman. The film stars Sean Connery (who was also the executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Kaufman, Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, which...
Robin and Marian
Robin and Marian is a 1976 British and American co-produced romantic adventure period film starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard...
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure is a 1959 adventure film directed by John Guillermin, produced by Sy Weintraub and Harvey Hayutin, and written by Les Crutchfield (based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs). The film features a literate...
The Hill
The Hill is a 1965 film set in a British army prison in North Africa in World War II. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch and Michael Redgrave.
In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention...
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan.
The Hunt for Red October received...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 superhero film. It is a film adaptation of the acclaimed comic book limited series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore who is also famous for Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. It...
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a...
The Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires is a 1970 film based on a novel by Arthur H. Lewis that was directed by Martin Ritt.
Set in late 19th-century Northeastern Pennsylvania, this social drama tells the story of an undercover detective sent to a coal mining community...
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose (original title, Der Name der Rose) is a German-French-Italian 1986 film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and...
The Presidio
The Presidio is an American mystery film released in 1988 by Paramount Pictures, directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, and Jack Warden. Hyams also photographed. The score was composed by Bruce Broughton.
At the...
The Rock
The Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area. It was directed by Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris. It was produced by Don Simpson...
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film based on the 1959 television series, and follows Eliot Ness's autobiographical account of his efforts to bring Italian-American gangster Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era. It was directed by...
The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 adventure film. It was written and directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston. It was based somewhat on the real-life Perdicaris incident of 1904.
This movie blends...
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam.
Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy. The film is...
Time Lock
Time Lock is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Gerald Thomas. The plot is about a six-year old boy who is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy. The film...
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 by Orion Pictures, is a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Unlike the majority of other Bond films it was not produced by EON Productions. The film stars Sean Connery as British Secret Service...
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Thunderball
Thunderball (1965) is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series after Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), and the fourth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel...
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1984 film starring Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, and Sean Connery. The film is based on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written in the late 14th...
Woman of Straw
Woman of Straw is a 1964 British mystery thriller starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was directed by Basil Dearden and written by Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1964 novel by Catherine Arley.
Connery's character...
The Offence
The Offence is a 1972 drama film, based upon the acclaimed 1968 stage play This Story of Yours by John Hopkins, directed by Sidney Lumet under the working title Something Like the Truth. It stars Sean Connery as a frustrated, obsessively aggressive...
A Fine Madness
A Fine Madness (1966) is a motion picture comedy based on the 1964 novel by Elliott Baker that tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome. It stars Sean Connery (in the midst of his James Bond roles), Joanne...
The Avengers
The Avengers is a 1998 American film adaptation of the British television series of the same name from the 1960s.
The film was directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean...
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Shalako
Shalako is a 1968 American western film starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot. Stephen Boyd portrayed a classic western villain. Jack Hawkins played an upper class Englishman abroad in the 'new' country. Honor Blackman portrayed an English lady....
The First Great Train Robbery
The First Great Train Robbery is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery. In the U.S., the film was also known as The Great Train Robbery. The film starred Sean Connery,...
Playing by Heart
Playing by Heart is a 1998 comedy-drama film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters.
Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows (Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands); an anti-social woman (Gillian...
Medicine Man
Medicine Man is an American film, released in 1992 and directed by John McTiernan. It features Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell, a researcher who ventures deep into the Amazon tropical rainforest searching for new medicines on behalf of a...
The Anderson Tapes
The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 crime film. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the same name...
Wrong Is Right
Wrong Is Right (Columbia Pictures, 1982) is a prescient black comedy thriller about the theft of two suitcase bombs, featuring the then novel plot conventions of media bias, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism. The film, which starred Sean...
The Next Man
The Next Man (also known as The Arab Conspiracy or Double Hit) is a 1976 American political action thriller film starring Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Cornelia Sharpe and Charles Cioffi. Critical reaction at its opening was not positive. Music for the...
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
The film (and book) features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Albert Finney stars as Poirot,...
Just Cause
Just Cause is a 1995 film directed by Arne Glimcher, and starring Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne. It is based on John Katzenbach's novel of the same name.
Paul Armstrong, (Sean Connery), a liberal Harvard Law professor opposed to capital...
The Frightened City
The Frightened City is a 1961 British film about extortion rackets and gang warfare in the West End of London. It stars Sean Connery, who plays a burglar called Paddy Damion. He is lured into a protection racket by oily mobster Harry Foulcher ...
Finding Forrester
Finding Forrester is a 2000 movie, written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant, about a teenager, Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who is accepted into a prestigious private high school. He also befriends a reclusive writer, William...
The Longest Day
The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II.
Producer Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author of the book, Cornelius Ryan, ...
The Russia House
The Russia House is a novel by John le Carré published in 1989. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet Union. A film based on the novel was released...
The Red Tent
The Red Tent (Russian: Красная палатка, translit. Krasnaya palatka; Italian: La tenda rossa; Spanish: La tienda roja) is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.
The film is based on a story of a mission to rescue Umberto...
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds. The film was marketed with the tagline "For the good of all men, and the love of one woman, he fought to uphold justice by breaking the law."
Kevin Costner heads the...
A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on the novel A Good Man in Africa (written by William Boyd in 1981), and directed by Bruce Beresford.
Morgan Leafy is British diplomat and works in the small African state of Kinjanja, in the process of...
Cuba
Cuba is a 1979 drama film starring Sean Connery set during the build up to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Connery starred as a British mercenary who returns to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista...
