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Hunk of the Week 7/31: Sean Connery

Hunk of the Week: Sean Connery


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auntiehill

The Blooness
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By request, this week's hunk is the legendary, and often controversial, film star, Sir Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), -- an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.

(from Wiki)
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such notable films as Marnie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October and The Rock.

Considered by many in Scotland to be the Greatest Living Scot, Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. In 1989 he was branded the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine and in 1999, at the age of 69, he was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century.

In July 2005, it was reported that he had decided to retire from film-making, following disillusionment with the "idiots now in Hollywood" and the turmoil making the 2003 film, The League of Extraordinary Gentelmen.

In September 2004, media reports indicated that Connery intended to retire after pulling out of Josiah's Canon, which was set for a 2005 release. However, in a December 2004 interview with The Scotsman newspaper from his home in the Bahamas, Connery explained he had taken a break from acting in order to concentrate on writing his autobiography. At the Tartan Day celebrations in New York in March 2006, Connery again confirmed his retirement from acting, and stated that he is now writing a history book. On 25 August 2008, his 78th birthday, Connery unveiled his autobiography "Being a Scot," co-written with Murray Grigor.

He was planning to star in an $80 million movie about Saladin and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Moustapha Akkad was killed in the 2005 Amman bombings. Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, where he again confirmed his retirement from acting. On 7 June 2007, he denied rumors that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones film, stating that "retirement is just too much damned fun".

Sean Connery however did return to voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short, "Sir Billi the Vet", and, as noted above, in 2005 he recorded voiceovers for a new video game version of his Bond film, From Russia with Love.


Darby O'Gill and the Little People
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The Bond Films
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Marnie
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The Molly Maguires
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Zardoz
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The Wind and The Lion
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The Man Who Would Be King
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Robin and Marion
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A Bridge Too Far
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The Untouchables
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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The Hunt for Red October
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First Knight
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Entrapment
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Finding Forrester
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Publicity shots
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That outfit looks a bit painful, actually. Imagine the chaffing....
 
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Heh. I love Zardoz. I've got the DVD. But it's not really Connery's body I pay attention to. :D

But Sean Connery, yes, definitely one of a kind; and what a magnifishent voishe. :bolian: His Bond movies are classic and his portray of Henry Jones Sr was wonderful; I was so sorry that he never reprised that role. He is one of a kind.

It doesn't get any Thumbs Upper than him. :bolian:
 
Thumbs down from me, but for my 86 year year old mother in law, it's thumbs up all the way!
 
Thumbs down from me (in fact I was the first thumbs down vote on the thread but I didn't have time to post the other day). The thing is he is the physical type I generally like, for instance, I have loved Pierce Brosnan for 20 years. However, Sean Connery comes off as so smarmy and thinking he's God's gift that there is no way I could find him sexy. Ick, ick, ick. His acting is good- I liked him in "The Man Who Would Be King" (but I liked Michael Caine better) but I find him repulsive on the sexiness scale.

I can't believe I could even compare Pierce Brosnan to him in this post- they shouldn't even be near each other!
 
I've never understood how anyone could think him attractive. Theumbs down.

This.

I enjoy the films he's been in, love his voice, but I've never understood why people think he's sex on a stick.

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If I had to pick one Connery though, it would be Hunt for Red October Connery.
 
I voted sideways because on the subject of Sean Connery I am inconsistency itself. I'll be watching a movie, for example, or an interview, and I'll be all "Wow, he sure is one fine-lookin' man," and then all of a sudden he'll do or say something that just makes me think, "What a jerk." Then he'll do or say something - and he does have a fabulous voice - completely charming and so I'll go back to "one fine-lookin' man." Then I'm back to "What a jerk"...and so on.

He's still my favorite Bond, but then again, Bond is supposed to be a jerk. A heroic jerk but still a jerk.
 
I voted sideways because on the subject of Sean Connery I am inconsistency itself. I'll be watching a movie, for example, or an interview, and I'll be all "Wow, he sure is one fine-lookin' man," and then all of a sudden he'll do or say something that just makes me think, "What a jerk." Then he'll do or say something - and he does have a fabulous voice - completely charming and so I'll go back to "one fine-lookin' man." Then I'm back to "What a jerk"...and so on.

This. But I'm voting "down" because he pisses me off.
 
I really want to rewatch the movie in the top pic now
"Darby O'Gill and the Little People". I remember it being very sweet.
 
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