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
James Bond in film process. Connery, however, was somewhat resigned to the project, lacking the enthusiasm he sported for "Thunderball". A press conference on his arrival had been tense, "soured by aggressive questioning of Connery's crumpled, jet-lagged appearance". Primary and secondary photography finished in December; the special effects filming for the space scenes were undertaken between January and March 1967, prior to the film's release on 12 June. The cinema posters for the film stated "Sean Connery IS James Bond", to distance the Eon-produced picture from the independent "Casino Royale", which had been released two months earlier. However, during the production, Connery announced that