Sir Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery

Author: John Parker

Publisher: John Blake

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781789464580

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He was one of the world's true superstars, and the silver screen's most beloved James Bond. Sir Sean Connery - a proud Scotsman born in 1930 to a working-class family - died at home in the Bahamas on October 31, 2020. He left behind him a legacy to rival any actor. Connery bestrode Hollywood like a Colossus. He commanded some of the highest fees in the industry and was lauded by critics and the public alike. In July 2000, his unique contribution to the world of film was recognized when he was accorded a knighthood. John Parker traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a tough street kid from Edinburgh. The part of 007 became a monster that threatened to kill Connery as an actor; he escaped to establish himself as one of the world's most magnetic and commanding character actors, winning an Oscar for his role in iconic crime drama The Untouchables. The author has drawn on reminiscences of famous friends and colleagues, including Honor Blackman, Robert Hardy and Eric Sykes, to create an authoritative and entertaining portrait of a talented, complex actor - and, above all else, a magnificent man.

Being a Scot
Being a Scot

Author: Sean Connery

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780753826317

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Previous ed. published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Michael Feeney Callan

Publisher: Virgin Books Limited

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780753539101

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Among European actors Sean Connery is unparalleled in his achievements. Having extended his career from theatrical successes through every genre of film, as James Bond he became the backbone of the most lucrative movie franchise in history.Born in an Edinburgh tenement, Sean Connery later served time as a milkman, cabinet polisher and art model. He turned to acting on a whim, and early onstage success in South Pacific translated into a TV and movie career. Taking his talents such as The Name of the Rose, The Hunt for Red October and The Rock. His role as Jimmy Malone in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables won him an Academy Award, which many saw as recongnition of a body of superlative screen creations over twenty years.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Andrew Yule

Publisher: Dutton

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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Sean Connery rose from the slums of Scotland to become one of the screen's most enduring and respected stars. From James Bond to The Man Who Would Be King, The Untouchables to The Hunt for Red October, his career has been diverse and spectacular. Now he emerges as a minefield of contradiction in this candid, inside portrait. Photographs.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Christopher Bray

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1605987573

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A biography of a star and an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. Sean Connery’s creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. How can such worship not play havoc with one’s soul—especially a soul as painfully unprepared for the pressures of stardom as Connery’s? Spirited and argumentative, Christopher Bray’s Sean Connery is the story of an actor learning his craft on the job and, at the end of his career, of a man pressing his stardom into the service of a burgeoning political awareness.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Bob McCabe

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2001-10-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781560253402

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Bob McCabe brilliantly captures the life and times of this talented and much respected actor in the book Sean Connery: A Biography. This first photographic tribute biography contains stunning pictures and the examination of the complex and compelling appeal of the world's greatest masculine actor. Voted the sexiest man alive and recently knighted on New Year's Eve, 1999 by Queen Elizabeth, the Oscar Award winning actor continues to entertain us. With the recent release of Finding Forrester and talks of him starring in Indiana Jones 4 in the summer of 2003, Connery remains one of Hollywood's leading men. This biography is a celebration of Connery's achievements both on and off the big screen, a revealing look at the man behind this former James Bond star.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Andrew Yule

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780751540970

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From the moment he ignited the silver screen as James Bond, Sean Connery has been a star. After 30 years and countless films, he is still one of the most irresistible, bankable, and highly paid actors in Hollywood. Now Yule offers an intimate look into the public and private life of this exciting superstar.

The Films of Sean Connery
The Films of Sean Connery

Author: Lee Pfeiffer

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780806522234

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For 40 years, Sean Connery has been among the world's most admired and popular actors. This edition is both an in-depth biography of this international superstar and a complete filmography with 400 photos, rare production stills, movie posters and lobby cards.

Robert Redford and the American West
Robert Redford and the American West

Author: Elisa Leonelli

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2007-05-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1462818145

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ROBERT REDFORD has played many Westerners on the big screen: a romantic outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman, a sheriff in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1968), a mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a rodeo cowboy in The Electric Horseman (1979) with Jane Fonda, a Montana rancher in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. He is the founder of Sundance, an admirer of Native American art and culture and a committed environmentalist. He embodies the best values of the American West.

Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Author: Christopher Bray

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0571261280

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Sean Connery's personification of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee, the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. Spirited, argumentative and sardonically celebratory, Christopher Bray's Sean Connery is both a biography of a star and an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. And it's an analysis of what it means to be star-struck - a critical tribute to a secular icon who has shaped so many dreams. In this skillfully crafted biography, Christopher Bray challenges the assumptions and rumours prevelent in previous biographies with characteristic wit and skill. His previous book Michael Caine: A Class Act, was described by the Telegraph as 'an extremely enjoyable interpretation of a fascinating body of work.' Apart from his notable performances as James Bond in seven Bond films including Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger, Sean Connery won an Oscar for The Untouchables and appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Highlander and The Rock. He has also starred in The Man Who Would Be King, Murder on the Orient Express and Zardoz.