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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


  • 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


  • 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


  • From Russia With Love
  • From Russia With Love review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
    Rated - 5 stars FANTASTIC THRILLER AND A CLASSIC MOVIE! 22 June 2004
    ...Dr No' producers Harry Saltzman & Albert R. ' Cubby' Broccoli made this film. Sean Connery's second appearance as 007: James Bond is even better than first time round. Da...  
  • Goldfinger
  • Goldfinger review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
    Rated - 5 stars The film with the midas touch! 22 June 2004
    ...ason And The Argonauts, The Avengers television series}play the love interest Sean Connery's 007 is the best bond film AFTER Pierce Brosnan. such classic scenes like a de...  
  • The Hunt For Red October
  • The Hunt For Red October review by from HAYES
    Rated - 5 stars 4 August 2004
    ...uthor as well. - This one keeps you on the edge of your seat as Marco Ramius (Sean Connery) runs from the Soviet Navy in the latest submarine built by them. - It runs ...  

Sean Connery - filmography


  • Finding Forrester on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Anna Paquin,  F. Murray Abraham
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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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  • Entrapment on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Maury Chaykin
    Director: Jon Amiel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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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  • The Avengers on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Uma Thurman,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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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  • The Rock on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Nicolas Cage,  Ed Harris
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 31,149 members
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  • Dragonheart on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sean Connery,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bowen, a young knight dedicated to the Old Code of Honor of King Arthur, serves his queen by tutoring her son Einon in ethics, morality and swordsmanship. The king is slain during a massacre of rebellious villagers, and a peasant girl causes Einon to fall on a wooden stake which impales his heart. ..read more »
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  • Dragonheart - HD DVD Version (1996)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sean Connery,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 157 members
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  • First Knight on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Richard Gere,  Julia Ormond
    Director: Jerry Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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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  • Rising Sun on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Wesley Snipes,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,067 members
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  • The Hunt For Red October on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Alec Baldwin,  Sam Neill
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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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  • The Presidio on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Mark Harmon,  Meg Ryan
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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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  • The Untouchables on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Charles Martin Smith,  Andy Garcia,  Kevin Costner
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and many 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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  • Time Bandits on DVD (1980)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Sean Connery,  Shelley Duvall
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions ..read more »
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  • Cuba on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Brooke Adams,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Satire about Cuban dictatorships and revolutions. A cynical British mercenary is dispatched to Havana by the Batista government to try and end Castro's reign. Along the way he meets a number of similarly cynical types as well as an old girlfriend. As the government falls down around them, each ..read more »
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  • The Wind and the Lion (1975)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  John Huston,  Geoffrey Lewis
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At the turn of the century, a North African sheik kidnaps an American widow and her children in Tangiers, setting off a chain of international incidents. But while she's being held for ransom, the widow finds herself increasingly attracted to her captor. Then, Theodore Roosevelt--with thoughts of ..read more »
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  • The Man Who Would Be King on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Sean Connery,  Christopher Plummer
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the classic story by novelist Rudyard Kipling, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING follows two British adventurers (Sean Connery and Michael Caine), former soldiers in Her Majesty's Service, as they give up the drudgery of eking out a living, legal and illegal, in poverty Raj-ruled India, and set ..read more »
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  • Zardoz on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Charlotte Rampling,  Sara Kestelman
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ..read more »
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  • Ransom on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Ian McShane,  Isabel Dean
    Director: Casper Wrede
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An adventure thriller filmed in Norway with good photography by Sven Nykvist. When international terrorists seize a passenger plane in Oslo, diplomacy is held hostage. Their demands: the release of jailed cohorts in England. Their bait: the British ambassador held captive in the jet. Only one man ..read more »
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  • Offence on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Trevor Howard,  Vivien Merchant
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery, in a career-defining role) has been on the Force for twenty years. He has seen too much dying, too much lying and too much maiming. When confronted with a suspect in a child-molesting case, he can no longer contain his fury.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 502 members
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  • Diamonds Are Forever on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Jill St. John,  Lana Wood
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Superspy James Bond (Sean Connery) gets tangled up in the wild world of international diamond smuggling. But hold on--the mission is not quite so simple as it seems; his chase of the jewel thieves leads him to conspirators with plans for unleashing a nuclear armageddon on an unsuspecting planet. ..read more »
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  • Shalako on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Brigitte Bardot,  Stephen Boyd
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In late-19th-century New Mexico, a hunting party of decadent European aristocrats wanders onto the reservation of some angry Apaches, and it's up to the mysterious wanderer, Shalako (Sean Connery), to save them from getting slaughtered. The group includes Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in GOLDFINGER) ..read more »
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  • Thunderball on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Claudine Auger,  Adolfo Celi
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a health spa (where he tangles with a mechanised masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's ..read more »
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  • Marnie on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Tippi Hedren,  Sean Connery,  Diane Baker
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This thriller, based on a best-selling novel by Wilson Graham, revolves around Marnie (Tippi Hedren), a pathological liar and compulsive thief who is befriended by her latest victim, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Despite his sincere love, dashing looks, and wealth, some deep-seated neurosis makes ..read more »
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  • Goldfinger on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Gert Frobe,  Honor Blackman
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dry as ice, dripping with deadpan witticisms, only Sean Connery's Bond would dare to disparage the Beatles, that other 1964 phenomenon. No one but Connery can believably seduce women so effortlessly, kill with almost as much ease, and then pull another bottle of Dom Perignon 53 out of the fridge. ..read more »
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  • From Russia With Love on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Robert Shaw,  Lotte Lenya
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Secret agent James Bond battles the all-enveloping tentacles of an international crime syndicate called SPECTRE. The organization's mad plan for world supremacy unfolds with the icy efficiency of a chessmaster's complex strategy, and if they succeed, the antagonism of the cold war will be pushed ..read more »
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  • Dr. No on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Ursula Andress,  Jack Lord
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of ..read more »
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  • The Frightened City on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Herbert Lom,  John Gregson,  Sean Connery
    Director: John Lemont
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    London is being terrorised by gangs who wreck the premises of shops if the owners refuse to pay protection money. An evil accountant wants to combine the gangs of racketeers and form one big crime syndicate. The City of London is under an even bigger threat if this happens......
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  • Another Time, Another Place on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Lana Turner,  Barry Sullivan,  Glynis Johns
    Director: Lewis Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Sara Scott's world comes crashing down when her romance with British journalist Mark Trevor comes to a tragic end. When Mark's plane crashes, Sara suffers a nervous breakdown before visiting his lover's widow to try and make sense of what's happened.
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Sean Connery - watch online


  • The Untouchables to Watch Now (1987)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Sean Connery,  Charles Martin Smith
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 119 minutes
    The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil and ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 119 members
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Sean Connery facts

5 most recent films

League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 3.0 stars
Finding Forrester - 3.5 stars
Entrapment - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The James Bond Story - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bridge Too Far, A - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Untouchables, The - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Goldfinger - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Rock, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Untouchables, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

This Game Of Golf - Henry Cotton - 2.0 stars
The Next Man - 2.5 stars
The Red Tent - 2.5 stars
The James Bond Story - 3.0 stars
The Wind and the Lion - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lois Maxwell - 18 times - show films
Bernard Lee - 18 times - show films
Eunice Gayson - 8 times - show films
Charles Gray - 6 times - show films
Adolfo Celi - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Terence Young - 12 times - show films
Guy Hamilton - 7 times - show films
Sidney Lumet - 5 times - show films
Terry Gilliam - 4 times - show films
Brian De Palma - 4 times - show films