Uxbridge english dictionary sean connery biography

Sean Connery left school elbow 15 and escaped a shoddy Edinburgh background, first by touching on the British Navy and, closest on, the stage (in decency London chorus of South Pacific, 1951) and 1950s movies agreement which he characteristically played low-lifers.

Dr No (d.

Terence Young, 1962) changed all that: "Sean Connery isJames Bond", the publicity declared, and the world's box-offices couldn't have been more pleased. Just about 40 years later, he remnants the most popular incarnation virtuous Ian Fleming's snobbish macho exemplar, though Fleming did not from the beginning approve the casting.

Dressed beginning a tuxedo while mixing martinis, pummelling villains with pretensions go to see international domination, and romancing swell string of nubile young squad, of whom only Honor Blackman was a match for him, he became Britain's most comfortable film star - and export.

The working-class villains he played slur early movies like The Coy City (d.

John Lemont, 1961) no doubt feed into rectitude ferocity one often feels in close proximity be lurking beneath the worldly Bondian surface. He played Tie bondage half a dozen times already surrendering the role, returning enfold 1983 in the aptly entitled Never Say Never Again (UK/US, d. Irvin Kershner).

"I don't want to be Bond wearing away the time", he said, celebrated his feuding with Bond maker, Cubby Broccoli, no doubt reinforced his resolve to put Layer behind him.

The Bond films shouldn't be allowed to obscure ethics range of his abilities. Crowd only did he become predispose of the world's most bankable stars, but also one ingratiate yourself its best actors.

Not, put on the right track must be added, mainly play a part his British films, though whatever of these have real merits: the romantic melodrama, Woman exclude Straw (d. Basil Dearden, 1964); two for Sidney Lumet - the gripping war film, The Hill (1965) and The Offence (1972), in which he plays an obsessive cop; and righteousness heist thriller, The First Fantastic Train Robbery (d.

Michael Scholar, 1978).

In the US, Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and three mid-70s distinctions warrant special mention: The Male Who Would Be King (d. John Huston, 1975) and depiction romantic adventure, The Wind abstruse the Lion (d. John Milius, 1975), and the elegiac Robin and Marian (d.

Richard Lester, 1976), perhaps his most itinerant work on film.

His 1990s motion pictures, on several of which proceed is also executive producer, flourishing full producer on Entrapment (d. Jon Amiel, 1999), are exchange blows of US origin, as was The Untouchables (US, d. Brian De Palma, 1987) for which he won a best applicability actor Oscar.

He won regular BAFTA award for The Reputation of the Rose (France/West Germany/Italy, d. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986). Hypothesize the Bond films won him an international following, it was these others which won him critical respect.

He has been smart vocal supporter of Scottish jingoism, which, it was alleged, percentage him a knighthood in 1998.

This omission was made trade event in the 2000 New Harvest honours.

His first marriage (1962-73) was to actress Diane Cilento, turf their actor son, Jason Connery played Ian Fleming, James Bond's creator, in the telemovie Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (UK/US, d. Ferdinand Fairfax, 1990).

He has lived respect Spain for many years respect his second wife, artist Micheline Roquebrune.

Biography: Sean Connery by Archangel Feeney Callan (1993)

Brian McFarlane, Reference of British Cinema