1954: Lilacs in the Spring (uncredited)

1957: No Road Back (Spike)

1957: Hell Drivers (Johnny Kates)

1957: Action of the Tiger (Mike)

1957: Time Lock

1958: Another Time, Another Place (Mark Trevor)

1958: A Night to Remember (uncredited)

1959: Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Michael McBride)

1961: Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (O’Bannion)

1961: On the Fiddle (Pedlar Pascoe)

1961: The Frightened City (Paddy Damion)

1962: The Longest Day (Pte. Flanagan)

1962: Dr. No (James Bond)

1963: From Russia With Love (James Bond)

1964: Marnie (Mark Rutland)

1964: Woman of Straw (Anthony Richmond)

1964: Goldfinger (James Bond)

1965: The Hill (Trooper Joe Roberts)

1965: Thunderball (James Bond)

1966: Un monde nouveau (himself)

1966: A Fine Madness (Samson Shillitoe)

1967: You Only Live Twice (James Bond)

1967: The Bowler and the Bunnet (documentary directed by himself)

1968: Shalako (Moses Zebulon ‘Shalako’ Carlin)

1970: The Molly Maguires (Jack Kehoe)

1971: The Red Tent (Roald Amundsen)

1971: The Anderson Tapes (John Anderson)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond)

1973: The Offence ( Detective Sergeant Johnson)

1974: Zardoz (Zed)

1974: Murder on the Orient Express (Colonel Arbuthnot)

1975: Ransom (Niis Tahlvik)

1975: The Dream Factory (documentary, he plays himself)

1975: The Wind and the Lion (Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent)

1975: The Man Who Would Be King (Daniel Dravot)

The amount of movies Sean Connery has played in proves his versatility and his ability to go into many different characters. There is no doubt that he is one of the greatest actors of the century and even today, at 81 years old, he remains an icon and also one of the sexiest men of the Planet.

In 1999 Connery was called “Sexiest Man of the Century” by People Magazine. He is originally from Fountainbridge, Edinburgh and is the son to a cleaning woman and factory worker, starting off with absolutely no connection in the film industry. Connery’s very first job was that of a milkman in his home town of Edinburgh; eventually he went on to join the Royal Navy where he received several tattoos and many life lessons. Because he had developed an ulcer over time, Connery was discharged and thus began his road to a career in acting.

This has been criticized by some. While making donations and appearances for the Scottish National Party, Sean lives as a tax exile in the Bahamas. He has also been accused of being a hypocrite for accepting a knighthood from the British government in 1999. It should however be said that Scotland is still under the rule of the British and his award would have been a very good way for Connery to highlight the valuable inroads that have been made in Scotland, including the new parliament. It has been said that his political views have in fact delayed the knighthood by many years.

The Scottish National Party still supports Sean Connery and recognizes the valuable contributions that are being made by him towards independence and his campaigning during the Scottish Referendum. It was this referendum that created the new Scottish Parliament. Sean Connerys’ ongoing support for his chosen political party and the independence of his country is a credit to the actor and his sense of social justice.

1962 Dr No

1963 From Russia with Love

1964 Goldfinger

1965 Thunderball

1967 You Only Live Twice

1971 Diamonds Are Forever

1983 Never Say Never Again

Sean Connery was chosen for the role of James Bond by Ian Fleming’s girlfriend, who told him that Sean had the sexual charisma needed for the role. Connery was a muscular man, standing at six foot two inches and was Scottish. This was exactly what Ian Fleming did not want, feeling that Connery was unrefined and looked like an “overgrown stunt man”. Fleming changed his mind after the overwhelming success of Dr No. Fleming created a half Scottish and half Swiss heritage for the literary James Bond in his later novels.

The character of James Bond and Connery’s portrayal of Bond was polished by the director Terence Young. Young taught Connery how to use his grace and presence on screen. Young taught Connery how to walk and talk, how to eat, perhaps even taught him how to be classy. Terence Young and Sean Connery made the character James Bond the international success that it became.

While making the Bond films Sean starred in other critically acclaimed films. In 1964 he starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Marine. He was in the Murder on the Orient Express in 1974 and had two movies released during 1975, Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion. Sean is one of the great motion picture stars of our time and has had many movies and many box office successes. In 1983 Never Say Never Again was released. After his experience with the movie and the court case that followed Connery turned his back on the major studios and did not make any films for two years. He again found success with The Name of the Rose in 1986, he won a BAFTA for this role and then with The Untouchables in 1987 he won an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor. His successes continued with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 and the Hunt for Red October in 1990.

Sean has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. He is probably most famous for his version of the character James Bond. Sean starred in seven Bond films in all, from 1962 to 1983 and then again in 1988. Some of his other roles have been in films that include The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Hunt for Red October and Dragonheart. Sir Sean Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. He has been polled as the greatest living Scott, and in 1989 was proclaimed the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine. In 1999 and at the age of 69 Sean was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century. Sean is a very popular Celebrity worldwide.

Born in 1930 you would have to agree that Sean has had a very long and very impressive acting career which has span over nearly 5 decades. Starting out as a teenager in Scotland he soon found that it was the American movies that made all of the money for the actors so he started to follow the Hollywood line. 1954 was his first time as an actor on a movie set and he kept going and going each year, sometimes making more than one movie as well as helping being the director and the producer of some movies later in his life.

He was made famous when he became the 007 James Bond characters which was something of an honor for actors to get the part. After doing several of these James Bond movies his luck with getting roles to play was something of a legend because no other actor was in more demand than Sean was. His good looks and accent gave him that little edge which drove the women wild and made the men envy him as well as the characters that he played.

His job as an actor was very successful since he has made so many people happy with his movies over such a long time. His voice has been used for some voice over work as well as some animations which have been coming out lately. The last great film that we see Sean in was the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003 and then another animated series in 2006. While his career may be slowing down as Sean gets older his fame will never slow down after all the great work that he has done.

Other movie titles include, besides a variety of James Bond movies, a night to remember back in the late 1950s which was a movie about the titanic. The longest day was another great movie that Sean was a big actor in which was not long after the night to remember film. From 1960 to 1967 he starred in several Bond films which were not really for the children but as time went on the Bond movies changed their rating to get a bigger audience and more watcher for the next generation. The hunt for Red October was another winning adventure that Sean was a lead in and this movie, like many of his others is still popular today. More recent films include First Knight and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which were both block buster movies.

Sean Connery had eventually made his way into Hollywood where he became well known as the international spy, James Bond. He starred as Bond in several of the films and got the part because Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, had a girlfriend that confessed to Ian that Connery had requisite sexual charisma needed to make the character more seductive and entrancing. Ian had envisioned Bond as a different character, not 6 foot 2 inches tall and very muscular, but it turns out that Connery was a huge success when playing the part. After his acting with Bond was over, Connery went on to make several great movies and is rumored to make more movies even though he has officially retired. He has done work in the James Bond video game by EA sports as a voice actor.