The Sean Connery Handbook - Everything you need to know about Sean Connery

Jacqueline Lasalle

Description

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes.

He is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six "official" EON productions films and the non-official Kevin McClory-helmed Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again.) In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.

Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot," and was knighted in July 2000. In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century". In tribute a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in the capital city of Estonia.

This book is your ultimate resource for Sean Connery. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away: No Road Back, Hell Drivers (film), Action of the Tiger, Time Lock, Another Time, Another Place (1958 film), A Night to Remember (1958 film), Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, On the Fiddle, The Frightened City, The Longest Day (film), Dr. No (film), From Russia with Love (film), Marnie (film), Woman of Straw, Goldfinger (film), The Hill (film), Thunderball (film), Un monde nouveau, A Fine Madness, You Only Live Twice (film), The Bowler and the Bunnet, Shalako (film), The Molly Maguires (film), The Red Tent (film), The Anderson Tapes, Diamonds Are Forever (film), The Offence, Zardoz, Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film), Ransom (1975 film), The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King (film), Robin and Marian, The Next Man, A Bridge Too Far (film), The First Great Train Robbery, Meteor (film), Cuba (film), Outland (film), Time Bandits, G'olé!, Five Days One Summer, Wrong Is Right, Never Say Never Again, Sword of the Valiant, Highlander (film), The Name of the Rose (film), The Untouchables (film), The Presidio (film), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Family Business (film), The Hunt for Red October (film), The Russia House (film), Highlander II: The Quickening, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Medicine Man (film), Rising Sun (film), A Good Man in Africa (film), The Thief and the Cobbler, Just Cause (film), First Knight, Dragonheart, The Rock (film), The Avengers (film), Playing by Heart, Entrapment (movie), Finding Forrester, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film), From Russia with Love (video game)

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Sujets

• Performing Arts
• Biography
• Entertainment
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781486435708
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 20 Mo

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