Sir Sean Connery, Kt 1930-2020

  Sir Sean Connery, the actor, has died aged 90.

He was born 25 Aug, 1930, the son of Joseph and Euphamia Connery; named Thomas. adopted the stage name of Sean in 1953; married 1st 1962, Diane Cilento [marriage dissolved, 1974]; one son; married 2ndly, 1975, Micheline Roquebrune; two step sons, 1 step daughter.

He served in the Royal Navy. Has appeared in films: No Road Back [1956]; Action of the Tiger [1957]; Another Time, Another Place [1957]; Hell Drivers [1958]; Tarzan's Greatest Adventure [1959]; Darby O'Gill and the Little People [1959]; On the Fiddle [1961]; The Longest Day [1962]; The Frightened City [1962]; Woman of Straw [1964]; Marnie [1964]; The Hill [1965]; A Fine Madness [1966]; Shalako [1968]; The Molly Maguires [1968]; The Red Tent [1st Russian co production] 1969; The Anderson Tapes [1970]; The Offence [1973]; Zardoz [1973]; Ransom [1974]; Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; The Wind and the Lion [1975]; The Man Who Would be King [1975]; Robin & Marian [1976]; The First Great Train Robbery [1978]; Cuba [1978]; Meteor [1979]; Outland [1981]; The Man with the Deadly Lens [1982]; Wrong Is Right [1982]; Five Days One Summer [1982]; Highlander [1986]; The Name of the Rose [1987] [BAFTA Award for Best Actor 1988]; The Untouchables [1987] [Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards, 1988; Golden Globe Award]; The Presido [1989]; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989]; Family Business [1990]; The Hunt for Red October [1990]; The Russian House [1991]; Highlander II - the Quickening [1991]; Medicine Man [1992]; Rising Sun [1993]; A Good Man in Africa [1994]; First Knight [1995]; Just Cause [1995]; The Rock [1996]; Dragonheart [1996]; The Avengers [1998]; Entrapment [1999]; Playing by Heart [1999]; Finding Forrester [2001]; as James Bond: Dr No [1963]; From Russia With Love [1964]; Goldfinger [1965]; Thunderball [1965]; You Only Live Twice [1967]; Diamonds Are Forever [1971]; Never Say Never Again [1983].

knighted in 2000; Fellow, BAFTA [1998]; Freedom of the City of Edinburgh [1991]; American Cinematique Award [1992]; BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award, [1990]; Man of Culture Award [1990]; Scot of the Year Award, BBC Scotland [1991]; Rudolph Valentino Award [1992]; Golden Globe Cecil B. De Mille Award [1996]; Commander, Order of Arts and Literature [France] [1987]; Legion d'Honneur, &c. Recreations: golf, tennis, reading.

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