Sean Connery filmography Sean Connery filmography Sir Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer. He was the first actor to have portrayed the literary character James Bond in a film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and again in an unofficial Bond film in 1983. He is also known for his roles as Jimmy Malone in "The Untouchables" (1987), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with his portrayals of Mark Rutland in "Marnie" (1964), Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez in "Highlander" (1986), Henry Jones Sr. in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989), Captain Marko
Oscar bait Reader" (2008). In the film "Tropic Thunder" (2008), characters Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) discuss the concept regarding Speedman's former role in the fictional film "Simple Jack", in which Lazarus notes that "you never go full retard", contrasting the Oscar successes of Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man", 1988) and Tom Hanks ("Forrest Gump", 1994) with Sean Penn's failure to win an award for his role in "I Am Sam" (2001). "Tropic Thunder" received protests from disability rights organisations due to its constant use of the word "retard"; Stiller defended the scene as being intended to lampoon