All All. Sign In. Actors I would love to direct in a film. List activity. Sean Connery. Actor Producer Director Dr. No The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between and Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he proved the doubters wrong, becoming one of the most notable film actors of his generation, with a host of great movies to his name.
This arguably culminated in his greatest acclaim in , when Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an Irish cop in The Untouchables , stealing the thunder from the movie's principal star Kevin Costner.
His mother, Euphemia Maclean, was a cleaning lady, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck driver. He also had a brother, Neil Connery , a plasterer in Edinburgh, who was eight years younger.
Before going into acting, Sean had many different jobs, such as a milkman, lorry driver, a laborer, artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder.
He also joined the Royal Navy, but was later discharged because of medical problems. At the age of 23, he had a choice between becoming a professional soccer player or an actor, and even though he showed much promise in the sport, he chose acting and said it was one of his more intelligent decisions. In he appeared in The Longest Day with a host of other stars.
