Sean Connery Filmography

Born:: August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Thomas Sean Connery
Biography:: One of the few movie "superstars" truly worthy of the designation, actor Sean Connery was born to a middle-class Scottish family in the first year of the worldwide Depression. Dissatisfied with his austere surroundings, Connery quit school at 15 to join the navy (he still bears his requisite...Read More

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Shane West, Stuart Townsend, Richard Roxburgh, Peta Wilson

Synopsis: Based on the comic book miniseries by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place in an alternate universe where the characters of several literary classics exist in reality. As if that weren't enough, they've been assembled together in 1900 by Queen Victoria as a team of Read More

7/11/03
Finding Forrester

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes

Synopsis: In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a Read More

12/20/00
Entrapment

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a Read More

4/30/99
The James Bond Story

Synopsis: First shown amid the publicity surrounding The World is Not Enough, this documentary highlights the career of the fabulously successful James Bond film series. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton are interviewed for this work. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Playing by Heart

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Ryan Phillippe, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe

Synopsis: Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is Read More

12/30/98
The Avengers

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Patrick Macnee, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Jeremiah Chechick directed this $60 million adaptation of the whimsical 1961 British TV spy series, imported to the United States five years later for ABC airing (beginning 3/28/66), followed by The New Avengers (CBS, 1978-79). In the feature-length version, secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) Read More

1998
Dragonheart

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times, is summoned by Aislinn the Queen (Julie Christie) to the bedside of her son, Einon, who is also Bowen's student. Einon has been wounded and is near death; with his heart Read More

1996
The Rock

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe

Synopsis: The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Nicolas Cage Read More

1996
Just Cause

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris

Synopsis: The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It Read More

1995
First Knight

Actors: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham

Synopsis: The tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is always ripe for retelling. In this rendition, the sexy Richard Gere is Sir Lancelot, threatening to supersede the aging King Arthur (Sean Connery) by winning the love of his young wife Guinivere (Julia Ormond). This update of the Read More

1995
A Good Man in Africa

Actors: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Lithgow

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned Read More

1994
Rising Sun

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson

Synopsis: When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Read More

1993
Medicine Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, Jose Wilker, Rodolfo de Alexandra, Angelo Barra Moreira

Synopsis: The Amazon rain forest is a living laboratory for Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive research scientist living with a Brazilian native tribe. Campbell has accidentally discovered a flower extract that cures cancer, but has been unable to duplicate the formula. With the assistance of Read More

2/7/92
Highlander II: The Quickening

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich

Synopsis: At the end of Highlander, Juan Ramirez (Sean Connery) died and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) was rendered mortal. "Highlander 2: The Quickening begins in 1999 when Connor solves the problem of an ever-depleting ozone layer on the earth by devising a giant shield around the entire planet. Read More

11/1/91
James Bond Collection

Synopsis: This collection of coming attractions is from the James Bond films. Includes some rare, behind the scenes footage. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Great Golf Courses of the World: Scotland

1991
The Russia House

Actors: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, Klaus Maria Brandauer, John Mahoney

Synopsis: "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems Read More

12/19/90
The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

3/2/90
Family Business

Actors: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick, Rosanna de Soto, Janet Carroll, Victoria Jackson

Synopsis: You've probably already guessed that the Family Business in this all-star melodrama is the business of crime. Adapted from a novel by Vincent Patrick, the film stars Sean Connery as Jessie McMullen, the patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his son Vito (Dustin Hoffman) and grandson Read More

12/15/89
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix

Synopsis: The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged Read More

5/24/89
Memories of Me

Actors: Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, Sean Connery, Janet Carroll

Synopsis: The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own Read More

9/28/88
The Presidio

Actors: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum

Synopsis: San Francisco detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) is assigned to investigate the murder of a female MP at the 212-year-old Presidio army base in this crime drama. Jay must interview Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell (Sean Connery), his former commander from his military days. The two must overcome their Read More

6/10/88
The Untouchables

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro

Synopsis: Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Read More

6/3/87
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart, whose previous subjects have ranged from JFK to Mao Tse-Tung, focuses his attention on everyone's favorite dinner-jacketed spy in Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond. Roger Moore, who'd played Bond from 1973 through 1985, hosts this roundup of filmclips Read More

1987
La Rosa dei Nomi

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Jean-Jacques Annaud

Synopsis: This documentary attempts to create an interesting and profitable encounter between the filmmakers, award-winning writer Umberto Eco, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, the director of a film based on one of Eco's more popular books The Name of the Rose and starring Sean Connery. In the process, the Read More

1987
100% Bonded

1987
The Name of the Rose

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Michel Lonsdale, Elya Baskin, Ron Perlman, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey

Synopsis: Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William Read More

9/24/86
Highlander

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney

Synopsis: With the ultimate throw-down, "There can be only one," Highlander captured the imaginations of fantasy fans seeking a well-executed swordplay epic, becoming a cult classic in the process. Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is one of a waning few survivors of a clan of immortals. The breed have Read More

3/7/86
Adventure 1: Trailers on Tape

Synopsis: Wanna see a movie in 3 minutes? Then Adventure 1: Trailers on Tape is right up your alley. Here is a collection of some of Hollywood's finest "trailers" -- not the mobile-home variety, but instead those "previews of coming attractions" reels that have whetted viewers' appetites over the past six Read More

1984
James Bond 007: Coming Attractions

Synopsis: This compilation of clips starring agent 007 includes From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Man With The Golden Gun and others. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1984
G'Ole!: The World Cup Challenge

Synopsis: A video of highlights of the 1982 World Cup - the soccer tournament was held Spain. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Never Say Never Again

Actors: Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: The title of the 1983 James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again is a self-mocking reference to star Sean Connery's insistence back in 1971 that he would never play Bond again. Reportedly, the huge salary offered Connery was but one consideration that brought him back to the 007 fold; the other Read More

1983
Sword of the Valiant

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears at King Arthur's court brandishing an axe and challenging anyone to do battle with him. When no one responds, King Arthur himself steps into the breach -- but is turned Read More

1983
G'Ole!

Synopsis: This is a 100-minute soccer film of World Cup teams playing at different locations on the Iberian peninsula in 1982, ending with the play-off matches. The games are interspersed with interviews of sports notables. Sean Connery narrates. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Wrong Is Right

Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Read More

1982
Five Days One Summer

Actors: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean

Synopsis: Fred Zinnemann's final film is a meditative examination of an illicit May-December romance, set in the mountain expanse of the Swiss Alps. Sean Connery plays Douglas, a middle-aged Scottish doctor on vacation in the Alps in 1932 with a beautiful and fresh-faced young woman, Kate (Betsy Brantley) Read More

1982
Time Bandits

Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm

Synopsis: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Read More

1981
Outland

Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham

Synopsis: For Marshal O'Neil (Sean Connery), the Jupiter moon Io is just another dingy mining town on the final frontier. When his wife leaves him and takes their son with them, it merely confirms that though he's traveled millions of miles, his life is going nowhere. Then he notices that miners are dying Read More

1981
Meteor

Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley (Sean Connery) is an American scientist who teams up with Dubov (Brian Keith), and his translator-assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) later falls in love with Bradley. Hong Read More

1979
Cuba

Actors: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Hector Elizondo, Jack Weston, Chris Sarandon, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In director Richard Lester's Cuba, Sean Connery plays British soldier-of-fortune Robert Dapes, sent to Havana during the last days of the Batista regime. He is supposed to train Batista's soldiers for their upcoming confrontations with Castro's followers. As Dapes becomes increasingly sympathetic Read More

1979
AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking career. Included are scenes from Psycho, The 39 Steps and Vertigo. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Wayne Sleep, Malcolm Terris, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is Read More

1979
A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

1977
The Next Man

Actors: Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi, Marco St. John

Synopsis: Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to play a Saudi Arabian minister of state who wants to make peace with Israel during the Arab oil embargo of 1976 than Sean Connery? Connery plays Khalil Abdull-Muhsen, a peace-mongering diplomat who Read More

1976
Robin and Marian

Actors: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Though the story told in Robin and Marian is unfamiliar to most audiences, it is actually quite faithful to several of the ancient Robin Hood legends. During the Crusades, Robin (Sean Connery) is still loyal to King Richard the Lionheart (Richard Harris), but even he has trouble adjusting to the Read More

1976
The Man Who Would Be King

Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

Synopsis: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination Read More

1975
The Wind and the Lion

Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the Read More

1975
Murder on the Orient Express

Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and Read More

1974
Ransom

Actors: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Norman Bristow, John Cording, Isabel Dean

Synopsis: Sean Connery stars in Caspar Wrede's hostage melodrama, featuring lustrous cinematography by Sven Nykvist. A group of terrorists hijack an airplane and hold the passengers at bay until political prisoners are released. Sent in to stop them is Scandinavian government agent Nils Tahlvik (Sean Connery Read More

1974
The Offence

Actors: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Derek Newark

Synopsis: In The Offence, Sean Connery plays Johnson, a normally unflappable British police inspector who is emotionally shaken by a case of child molestation. For reasons he cannot explain, he is driven to kill the suspect while interrogating him and is suspended from the force. The incident leads to a Read More

1973
Zardoz

Actors: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton

Synopsis: A resident of 23rd-century Earth becomes involved in a revolution after discovering the hidden truth about society's rulers in director John Boorman's sci-fi drama. Sean Connery plays Zed, the central rebel, who begins the film as a member of the Exterminators, a band of skilled assassins who Read More

1973
Diamonds Are Forever

Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean

Synopsis: After George Lazenby portrayed James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sean Connery returned to the tux, gimmicks, and catchphrases of Secret Agent 007 in his penultimate Bond outing, Diamonds Are Forever. Fragments of Ian Fleming's original 1954 novel remain, including the characters of Read More

1971
The Anderson Tapes

Actors: Frank Macetta, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Alan King, Ralph Meeker

Synopsis: This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to Read More

1971
The Molly Maguires

Actors: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist Read More

1970
The Red Tent

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and Russian co-production. Peter Finch stars as General Umberto Nobile, who is visited in Rome by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken in his ill-fated mission forty years Read More

12/23/69
Shalako

Actors: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Van Eyck, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying the camp of the European aristocrats, Shalako Read More

1968
You Only Live Twice

Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor

Synopsis: James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely believed to have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, and after a Russian space capsule similarly goes Read More

1967