biography
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Connery, Sir Sean
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originally Thomas Connery
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. After a succession of jobs, his powerful physique won him a role in the chorus line of the London stage production of South Pacific (1951). Sporadic film work followed, although there were more significant opportunities in television drama, particularly Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956). In 1963 he was cast in Dr No as Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond, a part he subsequently played on seven occasions. The film's unexpected success established him as an international box-office attraction. Later films include The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Russia House (1991), Just Cause (1995), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). He won an Oscar as an aging Irish cop with true grit in The Untouchables (1987). In 1998 he received a BAFTA Fellowship award for his lifetime achievements in film. He was knighted in 1999. |
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