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
The Bond Films
Marnie
The Molly Maguires
Zardoz
The Wind and The Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
Robin and Marion
A Bridge Too Far
The Untouchables
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Hunt for Red October
First Knight
Entrapment
Finding Forrester
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Publicity shots
(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
The Bond Films
Marnie
The Molly Maguires
Zardoz
The Wind and The Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
Robin and Marion
A Bridge Too Far
The Untouchables
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Hunt for Red October
First Knight
Entrapment
Finding Forrester
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Publicity shots
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.
