Sean Connery

by Michael Feeney Callan (Author)

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  Mass Market Paperback
  2003

  $3.24

  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.

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  Hardcover
  2002

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  Sean Connery is reputedly argumentative and tight-fisted; he is also fiercely patriotic (he sports a Scotland Forever tattoo), a consummate professional and, now in his 70s, still dashing, charismatic and regarded by some as the world's sexist man. Born into a poor Edinburgh family, Sean Connery dreamed of being rich enough to own a piano. After time as a choirboy, coffin polisher, nude model and bodybuilder, he decided he wanted to act, and his perseverance finally paid off when he beat better-known competition to play the first James Bond in Dr No . His suave and sophisticated 007 became a worldwide cult figure and turned him into a (reluctant) superstar. Yearning to move on from the Bond persona, Connery went on to star in some truly memorable movies, including The Man Who Would Be King , The Name of the Rose , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Hunt for Red October and The Rock , confirming his status as a genuine star. For his role as Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Dr No , this revealing and intimate biography includes in-depth interviews from his family, friends and co-stars.