Sean Connery Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Untouchables". His film career also includes such films as "Marnie", "The Name of
Sean Connery Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972. Apart from "The Man Who Would Be King" and "The Wind and the Lion", both released in 1975, and "Robin and Marian" (1976) where he played Robin Hood and starred opposite Audrey Hepburn who played Maid Marian, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, and "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier. In 1981, Connery appeared in the film "Time Bandits" as Agamemnon.