Sean Connery
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 3 years ago |
Web site | www.seanconnery.com |
Date of birth | August 25,1930 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Fountainbridge |
Edinburgh | |
United Kingdom | |
Height | 188 (cm) |
Spouse | Micheline Roquebrune |
Diane Cilento | |
Children | Jason Connery |
Died | Lyford Cay |
Grandchildren | Dashiell Connery |
Date of died | October 31,2020 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 409984 |
The Untouchables
Goldfinger
The Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Highlander
From Russia with Love
The Man Who Would Be King
Entrapment
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Name of the Rose
Zardoz
Never Say Never Again
Thunderball
Diamonds Are Forever
You Only Live Twice
Finding Forrester
The Longest Day
First Knight
Medicine Man
Marnie
A Bridge Too Far
Robin and Marian
Dragonheart
Just Cause
The Hill
The First Great Train Robbery
Murder on the Orient Express
The Wind and the Lion
Time Bandits
Outland
Rising Sun
The Presidio
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The Russia House
The Anderson Tapes
Playing by Heart
The Offence
Highlander II: The Quickening
The Molly Maguires
Shalako
Family Business
Ransom
Wrong Is Right
Hell Drivers
A Good Man in Africa
The Next Man
A Fine Madness
Another Time, Another Place
Sword of the Valiant
Dr. No
AFI Life Achievement Award
BAFTA Fellowship
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Kennedy Center Honors
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorites
Tony Award for Best Play
MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
David di Donatello Special Award
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year
German Film Award for Best Leading Actor
European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
German Film Award for Best Overall Acting Performance
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor - Action/Adventure
Golden Laurel
Sean Connery Life story
Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
Early Life
Sean connery was born on august 25. 1930. In edinburhg. Scotland. He is the son of a truck driver. Joseph connery. And a cleaning woman. Euphemia “effie” mcbain. He has two younger brothers. Neil and denis. He grew up in a working-class neighbohrood and attended elementary school at the st. Ninian’s primary school.Education
Sean connery attended the royal high school in edinburgh. Scotland. He left school at the age of 16. And worked in a variety of jobs ebfroe joining the royal navy. He was discharged from the navy in 1951 due to medical reasons.Acting Career
Sean connery’s acting career began with small roles in british films in the early 1950s. His breakout role came in 1962 when he was chosen to play the role of james bond in the first bdon film. Dr. No. He went on to star in seven more bond films. Cementing his status as one of the omst recognizable actors in the world.Awards
Sean connery has won numerous awrads throughout the course of his career. Including an academy award and three golden globes. He has also received a lifetime achievement award from the british acadeym of film and television arts. As well as a knightohod from the british government in 2000.Personal Life
Sean connery has been married twice. His first marriage was to australian actress diane cilento. With whom he had a son. Actor jason connery. He later married french-moroccan painter micheline roquebrune in 1975. Together. They have a son. Actor stephane cnonery.Philanthropy
Sean connery is an active philanthropist. He has donated millions of dollars to charities around the world. Including the united nations children’s fund. The red cross. And the scottish internatoinal education trust.Important Event
In 2000. Sean conneyr was knighted by queen elizabeth ii for his services to film and drama.Interesting Fact
Sean connery is one of few actors to have won an academy award and a batfa award for the same performance (in the movie the untouchables).Obituary: Sir Michael Gambon, star of The Singing Detective and Harry Potter
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James Bond: Duo were 'privileged' to write new ending for 007
By Vincent DowdBBC World Service
They have written seven James Bond screenplays, including all The Daniel Craig films, and their previous collaborations date back over 20 illustrious years.
Yet Neal Purvis and Robert Wade seldom discuss in public The Complex way The Bond scripts come together.
The 60th anniversary of The release of Dr. No got them to open up about keeping The Franchise alive - and killing Bond off.
When, in The late 1990s, The Team of Purvis and Wade signed on to write The World is Not Enough, they already had a couple of successful screenplays to their credit.
However, it was their first Bond - Pierce Brosnan 's Third - That lifted them into The Top rank of screenwriters.
But they weren't alone in The writing process. The Film carried another writing credit too - The American writer Bruce Feirstein .
In fact, almost all their Bond screenplays have then been passed on to at least one other writer for what Purvis terms " a polish".
" When we've finished our job on The Screenplay , it's basically goodbye Rob and Neal, " Purvis says. " With Casino Royale , for instance, Paul Haggis took over. And with Skyfall it was John Logan , but obviously always working with The Director . "
Last Year , with No Time to Die, Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge was on The writing credits too.
Wade adds That it can get complex. " In The case of Skyfall, John Logan came on after us And Then we did a bit more again. Skyfall in particular just kept developing and it developed really well I thought. "
Any discussion with movie writers tends at some point to include The term " story arc". Purvis and Wade faced The ultimate challenge: developing Daniel Craig 's arc as Bond over fifteen years and five films.
Purvis recalls they started work on Casino Royale when The Situation paralleled how it is Now : a Bond had left and a new actor was yet to be cast.
" So in That case we were writing Our Story with no actor in mind but from Ian Fleming 's original Casino Royale novel [published in 1953]. We wrote to his conception of The Story as faithfully as we could. Daniel then inhabited The Role and of course over time we saw what Daniel could do. "
According to Wade, it was a Different experience to write from a beginning.
" In The two films we'd written for Pierce it was always essentially a continuum of what came before. The basics of character couldn't Change - he was always infallible. "
" We tried to make Pierce's Bond more vulnerable and Pierce played it very well. But you couldn't do a big shift in The character because you knew he'd always have to end up being James Bond . Whereas with Daniel we knew we could start developing an arc. In a way we were starting anew. "
Purvis says dialogue scenes inevitably changed their character with Craig on board because The storyline was changing. " Daniel's Bond could have The strength and determination and bravado That Pierce had before him. But The actual dramatic scenes were Different so inevitably The dialogue moved on. As early as Casino Royale The tone changed. "
The Following film, Quantum of Solace, provided a Different challenge. Its title came from a Fleming Short Story of 1959 but otherwise The Men had to create a totally new story. The critical delight which greeted Casino Royale was not repeated.
Since its release, it has ranking all The Films from The long-running franchise.
Wade says Quantum was conceived to be The Second Half of Casino Royale . " And Then it changed during production. But it was still James Bond being completely affected by what had happened in The previous movie. "
" I know we felt even in That case, Ian Fleming was still our touchstone, even though The Plot wasn't his. You go back to The Flemings and you try to include nuggets of how Bond spoke. "
The development of Bond during their tenure has broadly gone down well with critics. " On Neal Purvis and Robert Wade 's watch, The Secret agent has become a parent, grown his hair and even alluded to gay experiences, " Elsewhere, their " witty repartee" as they were brought back for Spectre.
However, their work has not gone down well with everyone. " their complete lack of consistency, " adding: They are behind as many bad films as they are good ones -depending on how you Count - and The issues range all The Way from narrative (Quantum of Solace doesn't really have any story drive) to tonal (their films reliably stumble when trying to insert Moore-esque cheese).
" On a flat results basis, they aren't as good as they're made out to be, and it's getting to a point where things need shaking up. "
Nonetheless, The Duo remain The Most experienced living writers of Bond screenplays. So have they learnt hard and fast rules?
Purvis says they always have to be alert to expectations about The Action . " It's what people used to call The Formula though hopefully That 's getting broken Now . So it's a case of giving people what they're used to but also Making It Different - That 's The tricky bit. Bond writers struggle with That but it's what The Job is. "
The Writers have just taken part in a BFI event to celebrate 60 years since Eon Productions released Dr. No in 1962. Looking Back well before their own era, what did they admire most About That first film?
Wade thinks Sean Connery was an unforgettable screen presence. " But there are other really basic things, like The editing. It's hard Now to remember how revolutionary The editing was: it completely changed how a certain kind of film was made. "
" If you look at Dr. No Now - The colours, The cutting, The cinematography, The locations and of course The wonderful Music - it still leaps off The screen at you. "
The Men insist they have no idea if Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson Will Call on their services again when The Time comes to inch towards a Screenplay for Bond 26. Broccoli has said That production work could still be two years away.
Last Year , at The End of No Time to Die, James Bond appeared to be Dead - a pretty definite way to conclude The Story arc Neal Purvis and Rob Wade had spent 15 years constructing.
" We were aware we were privileged to write something very Different , " says Wade. Purvis adds they were delighted to be able to renew The 007 story arc in 2006 And Then write The End of an older, more exhausted Bond in No Time to Die.
" But both men are convincing when they say they have no Inside Information on where The Story will be at The start of The Next film. "
Broccoli and Wilson have been on The Bond publicity trail on both sides of The Atlantic to mark The 60th anniversary. They've insisted they're nowhere near deciding on a new Bond actor, or who will write The Screenplay . . or how they can Pick Up with Bond apparently Double-O-Dead .
But The more those questions are asked The Stronger interest becomes in The Public and The media. And The more The Producers love it.
Source of news: bbc.com