Posted on 10/31/2020 7:19:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
Remembering Sean Connery's Film Roles
"No Road Back" (1957)
"Hell Drivers" (1957)
"Action of the Tiger" (1957)
"Time Lock" (1957)
"Another Time, Another Place" (1958) w/Lana Turner
"Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959)
"Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959)
"On the Fiddle" (1961)
"The Frightened City" (1961)
"Macbeth" (1961)
"Anna Karenina" (1961)
"The Longest Day" (1961)
"Dr. No" (1962) w/Ursula Andress
"From Russia with Love" (1962)
"Goldfinger" (1964)
"Marnie" (1964) w/Tippi Hedren
"Woman of Straw" (1964) w/Gina Lollabrigida
"The Hill" (1965)
"Thunderball" (1965) w/Claudine Auger
"A Fine Madness" (1966)
"You Only Live Twice" (1967)
"The Bowler and the Bunnet" (1967)
"Shalako" (1968) w/Brigitte Bardot
"The Red Tent" (1969)
"The Molly Maguires" (1970)
"The Anderson Tapes" (1971)
"Diamonds Are Forever" (1971)
"The Offence" (1973)
"Zardoz" (1974)
"Murder on the Orient Express" (1974)
"Ransom" (1975)
"The Wind and the Lion" (1975)
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1975) w/Michael Caine
"Robin and Marian" (1976) w/Audrey Hepburn
"The Next Man" (1976)
"A Bridge Too Far" (1977)
"The First Great Train Robbery" (1978)
"Meteor" (1979) w/Natalie Wood
"Cuba" (1979)
"Outland" (1981)
"Time Bandits" (1981)
"Five Days One Summer" (1982)
"Wrong Is Right" (1982)
"Never Say Never Again" (1983)
"Sword of the Valiant" (1984)
"Highlander" (1986)
"The Name of the Rose" (1986)
"The Untouchables" (1987) w/Kevin Costner
"The Presidio" (1988)
"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) w/Harrison Ford
"Family Business" (1989)
"The Hunt for Red October" (1990)
"The Russia House" (1990) w/Michelle Pfeiffer
"Highlander II: The Quickening" (1991)
"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991)
"Medicine Man" (1992)
"Rising Sun" (1993)
"A Good Man in Africa" (1994)
"Just Cause" (1995) w/Laurence Fishburne
"First Knight" (1995) w/Julia Ormond
"Dragonheart" (1996) as voice of Draco
"The Rock" (1996)
"The Avengers" (1998)
"Playing by Heart" (1998) w/Gena Rowlands
"Entrapment" (1999) w/Catherine Zeta-Jones
"Finding Forrester" (2000)
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003)
“The Hill” and “The Offence” are great ones, too, if you haven’t seen them.
It’s unfortunate he dropped out of the Bond franchise to do the lamentable “Shalako” (which I found simply boring, and have only watched once - despite its attempt to bring together Connery and Bardot for what was hoped would be a hit movie, which it wasn’t). That George Lazenby as a newcomer could do a superb job in his single outing as Bond is testament to how great a screenplay “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” was. Imagine Connery’s Bond crying over his dead wife. That would’ve been something.
Conversely, his return for “Diamonds Are Forever” was subpar. It’s astonishing that he was only 40 during filming, and looked demonstrably far older, tired and out of shape (contrast that with his return in “Never Say Never Again” a dozen years later, where he looked healthier, more alert and fitter).
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