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Connery voted greatest British hero -
26 July 2006
Sean Connery isn't quite over-the-hill yet, with a recent survey commissioned by Thorpe Park revealing that for many Britons he is their 'greatest British hero'.-Although the robust Scot's position at the top of the list is not in question, the validity of a greatest
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Connery to play Vet, Sir Billi The Vet -
7 December 2005
Sir Sean Connery is set to give his voice to a cartoon character Sir Billi The Vet. - -The movie star knight is to appear in a low budget cartoon made in Scotland that tells the veterinary tale of Sir Billi, who has more than a passing similarity to Sir Sean, and his
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Connery to get top US film honour -
11 November 2005
The original James Bond Sir Sean Connery is to be given the American Film Institute's (AFI) highest honour, the life achievement award.-The star of The Name Of The Rose and Highlander will receive the award at a Los Angeles gala tribute next year.-Sir Howard Stringer,
Sean Connery - what members say
Sean Connery - filmography
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Finding Forrester
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Sean Connery, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Director Gus Van Sant brings to the screen this moving story of a grizzled recluse and an inner-city teenager brought together by their shared passion for writing. Like Van Sant's Oscar-nominated GOOD WILL HUNTING, FINDING FORRESTER earnestly explores the struggles of a youthful genius whose ..read more »
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72%
from 646 members
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Entrapment - BLU-RAY Version
(1999)
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones, Maury Chaykin
Director: Jon Amiel
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Sparks fly as Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Connery, an aging thief. In preparation for their latest heist, Connery has her suffer through a rigorous training camp. Promises begin to blur and dwindle as romance introduces itself into the picture, building ..read more »
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59%
from 752 members
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Entrapment
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones, Maury Chaykin
Director: Jon Amiel
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Sparks fly as Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Connery, an aging thief. In preparation for their latest heist, Connery has her suffer through a rigorous training camp. Promises begin to blur and dwindle as romance introduces itself into the picture, building ..read more »
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61%
from 4,506 members
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The Avengers
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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In the AVENGERS feature film, the characters of the cult 1960s television show are back at it again. The suave John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and the sultry Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) team up to thwart the nefarious plans of Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery), who is out to control the world's weather. ..read more »
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42%
from 235 members
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Playing By Heart
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Madeline Stowe
Director: Willard Carroll
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A sprawling cast come together to tell this tale of romance and love in the 90's. The ensemble players discuss love and relationships throughout the film, and by the end of the picture, everyone has learned a valuable lesson: never give up on love. A touching romantic drama with several ..read more »
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64%
from 265 members
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The Rock
(2 discs)
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Director: Michael Bay
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In Michael Bay's THE ROCK, gung-ho general Francis Hummel (Ed Harris), armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts, takes over the island of Alcatraz, holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ..read more »
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74%
from 7,391 members
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Rock, The - BLU-RAY Version
(1996)
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Director: Michael Bay
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In Michael Bay's THE ROCK, gung-ho general Francis Hummel (Ed Harris), armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts, takes over the island of Alcatraz, holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ..read more »
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78%
from 1,272 members
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Dragonheart
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Rob Cohen
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Sean Connery provides the voice of the last dragon on earth in this medieval tale of a freelance knight (Dennis Quaid) who's forced to turn against the tyrant king (David Thewlis) he tutored as a boy. In order to bring the king to justice the noble warrior must kill him, but in doing so he would ..read more »
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63%
from 2,747 members
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Dragonheart - HD DVD Version
(1996)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Rob Cohen
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Sean Connery provides the voice of the last dragon on earth in this medieval tale of a freelance knight (Dennis Quaid) who's forced to turn against the tyrant king (David Thewlis) he tutored as a boy. In order to bring the king to justice the noble warrior must kill him, but in doing so he would ..read more »
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61%
from 114 members
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Just Cause
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw
Director: Arne Glimcher
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A Harvard law professor takes up the case of a southern black man on death row for murdering a white woman, a crime he may not have committed. Discovering the truth proves difficult, as a Bible-spouting inmate and the brutal police officer who convicted the condemned man lead the professor down ..read more »
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63%
from 176 members
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First Knight
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond
Director: Jerry Zucker
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1995 had already seen the box-office success of sword-wielding heroes in Rob Roy and Braveheart when along came this glossy revision of the Arthurian legend, in which Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) is torn between her love for the noble King Arthur (Sean Connery) and the passionate knight Sir ..read more »
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59%
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First Knight - BLU-RAY Version
(1994)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond
Director: Jerry Zucker
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Guinevere of Leonesse has agreed to marry King Arthur if his army will protect her country from the evil Malavant. Despite this she is very much in love with him and all bodes well for the future. One day, however, a rogue called Lancelot, the perfect warrior, appears on the scene and steals her ..read more »
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61%
from 212 members
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Rising Sun - BLU-RAY Version
(1993)
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Director: Philip Kaufman
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A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns out to be bigger than either of them had thought. Rather loosely based on Michael Crichton's novel.
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62%
from 449 members
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Rising Sun
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Director: Philip Kaufman
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A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns out to be bigger than either of them had thought. Rather loosely based on Michael Crichton's novel.
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62%
from 1,080 members
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Highlander 2
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen
Director: Russell Mulcahy
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In this labyrinthine sequel, the Immortal MacLeod saves the people of Earth from immanent ozone layer-related destruction by building a shield that deflects sunlight. But the people of Earth aren't especially grateful, as the constant state of night has made them cranky and prone to criminal sprees...read more »
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The Hunt For Red October
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill
Director: John McTiernan
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It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
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74%
from 2,666 members
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The Russia House
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the ..read more »
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66%
from 213 members
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Family Business
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Connery, Hoffman, and Broderick star as three generations of a family formerly linked to organized crime. Grandfather Jesse has been in and out of jail, and his son Vito has decided to leave a life of crime in order to become a respectable family man, but when grandson Adam comes up with a can't-..read more »
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51%
from 555 members
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The Presidio
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan
Director: Peter Hyams
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The investigation of a murder on the base of a 1,400-acre military compound in San Francisco reunites the base commander and one of his former officers, now a cop, who have no great love for each other. The situation escalates as the cop falls for the commander's daughter.
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63%
from 198 members
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The Untouchables
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner
Director: Brian De Palma
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Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the flow of booze into the city (the police force is corrupt and everyone in town seems to be on the ..read more »
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75%
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The Name Of The Rose
on DVD (1986)
Starring: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Lonsdale
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Based on Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, THE NAME OF THE ROSE is a medieval whodunnit set in a 14th-century Italian monastery. Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and a young novice (Christian Slater) arrive for a conference to find that several monks have been brutally murdered...read more »
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This movie set the standard. 1 April 2005
...of films developed, to such an extent that in later years Bond was almost camp! Sean Connery excelled in the role and the Director's introduction of Bond to the screen audi...
