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Sir Thomas Sean Connery first appearance in movies was in the 1954 film Lilacs in the Spring. Since that film, he has appeared in nearly 70 movies in his career. Some of his early breaks in the movie business were 1958’s Another Time, Another Place opposite Lana Turner and the Walt Disney’s 1959 film Darby O’ Gill and the Little People. His biggest break was when he was cast as James Bond in Dr. No. Appearing as Bond in seven films, he became an international star. His non Bond movies did not fare as well, as he struggled to get out of the huge James Bond shadow. During this time frame he did appear in some outstanding movies like The Hill and The Man Who Would Be King.
In 1983 he appeared as James Bond for the last time in Never Say Never Again. It was looking like his career was just about over, when in 1987, he made The Untouchables. He won an Oscar® as Best Supporting Actor for the movie. His career took off again and he made some of his greatest films. Movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October and The Rock. His last movie appearance was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003.
His IMDb page shows 92 acting credits from 1954-2012. This page will rank Sean Connery movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Sean Connery Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Sean Connery Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Sean Connery movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Sean Connery movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Sean Connery movies by yearly box office rank
- Sort Sean Connery movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Sean Connery movie received.
- Sort Sean Connery movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Sir Sean Connery
1. Before becoming an international movie star, Sean Connery had many other jobs…some of the jobs include….milkman, body builder, coffin polisher, artist’s model(including nude modeling), a laborer and a lorry driver. Connery also served in the Royal Navy and had a chance to play professional football(soccer) but he wisely choose acting.
2. Sean Connery is the only British male star to be the #1 box office star in America. This occured in 1965 during the peak of James Bond movies.
3. Over Sean Connery’s fifty year career he only received one Oscar® nomination and two Golden Globe® nominations. He did however win one Oscar® and one Golden Globe® for his role in 1987’s The Untouchables. His second and last Golden Globe® nomination was for playing the senior Indiana Jones in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
4. James Bond is easily Sean Connery’s most famous role. He got the role after many actors turned down the role. Some of those actors include: Cary Grant, David Niven, Richard Johnson and Patrick McGoohan.
5. Sean Connery would appear in 6 official Bond movies and one unofficial Bond movie, Never Say Never Again. Sean Connery’s James Bond is easily the first and best James Bond….at least in my humble opinion.
6. Sean Connery has been married twice in his life. He was married to Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973….and they had one son, Jason who is also an actor. He has been married to Micheline Roquebrune since 1975.
7. Two of Sir Sean Connery’s best friends were Sir Michael Caine and Sir Roger Moore. He never appeared in a movie with Moore, but he shares two screen credits with Caine…..1975’s A Man Who Would Be King(my favorite Connery movie) and 1977’s A Bridge Too Far(they have no scenes together).
8. Entertain Weekly voted Sean Connery as 24th Greatest Movie Star of all time.
9. Some of the roles Sean Connery turned down: Matrix Reloaded, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Die Hard With A Vengeance, The Thomas Crown Affair(McQueen version), Braveheart, Sleeping With The Enemy, The Birds, Bladerunner, Star Trek V, and The English Patient.
10. Check out Sean Connery’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Hey Cogerson you are still the bomb, when you do these updates remodels whatever you call them, I am always amazed how many months ago I made my first comment 8 months ago on this one. You do realize you owe for all this reading I have done for you, remember that at Christmas time.
Thanks for the continued support KellyE…and all of your support will be rewarded in a few more weeks….I am thinking Doogie Doo for your drinking game tryout….lol. I am right there with you in the amazement on how fast time has gone here on hub pages…8 months wow…it feels like I have only been doing HubPages a month or two. Good luck the next few days at work….a week from today it will be super slow…so just get to Friday.
Wow I really knocked your moviescore system 8 months ago, must have caught me in a bad mood. 🙂
An excellent fact filled hub on one of my favourite actors, as a James Bond aficionado I naturally prefer the Connery Bonds to any of his other films.
Thunderball the number one film of 1966 eh I’m not surprised, it’s sold more cinema tickets than any other Bond film.
Am I the only person on Earth that thinks Last Crusade was the weakest of the first three Indy films? Can’t be. It had it’s moments but the thing just fizzled out about the half way point. Loved John Williams music, best thing about it.
Shock horror I’ve seen 42 Connery films out of 53, I must be a fan than. 🙂
Voted Up, Interesting and Useful.
Hey Steve….yeah you were really mean back then….lol. Amazingly they never gave Connery any love for his performances as never got an Oscar nom(expected) but never a Golden Globe(very unexpected)..As for Last Crusade…I think it is the 2nd best of the series….I see you did not even mention the 4th one…which still is part of the series no matter how bad it was….
I have seen 29 of the Connery movies…which includes all of the first 19…then I find it hard to find ones that I have seen….I think the one movie I figured I should watch is The Hill…and yet 8 months later I still have not seen the movie. And I still have not found The Man Who Would Be King on blu-ray…maybe I will find it soon. Thanks for the revisit.
Hey Cogerson, just noticed that currently ALL the related hubs in the side box are my Bond pages, hoho I wonder if thats ever happened before Might be a first! 🙂
Hey Steve….yeah you were really mean back then….lol. Amazingly they never gave Connery any love for his performances as never got an Oscar nom(expected) but never a Golden Globe(very unexpected)..As for Last Crusade…I think it is the 2nd best of the series….I see you did not even mention the 4th one…which still is part of the series no matter how bad it was….
I have seen 29 of the Connery movies…which includes all of the first 19…then I find it hard to find ones that I have seen….I think the one movie I figured I should watch is The Hill…and yet 8 months later I still have not seen the movie. And I still have not found The Man Who Would Be King on blu-ray…maybe I will find it soon. Thanks for the revisit
Hey Steve you might be correct….you and your Illustrated References own all the related page spots…congrats as I do not think I have ever seen that before either.
My favourite Bond film is Goldfinger. I won’t bother ranking them. There is a Bond post already, so beyond that I I will not talk about Bond films but what I think of the rest of the career.
I know you expect me to talk about Marnie. It was a flop and the first since Hitchcock started that long string of hits from the late fourties onward. It gets more respect now than it did when it came out, but it is still only an average film. Not sure why. It should have been fabulous. There is nothing wrong with the acting. My Hitchcock fan club is currently discussing the movie and no one can quite put their finger on why it fails to be all it should have been. It is my favourite of his post-The Birds films, but that is all.
Murder on the Orient Express-I love Agatha Christie! This is fabulous. Enough said.
My 5 favourite Connery films in alphabetical order for everything but the Bond films:
The Great Train Robbery
The Hunt for Red October
The Man Who Would Be King
Murder on the Orient Express (favourite overall, big surprise!)
The Russia House
Hey Flora thanks for checking out one of my older hubs….I updated the tables a little bit since seeing your comment. First of all….I am not shocked that Murder on the Orient Express is number one in your book….Christie + Poirot + Widmark = #1 …..and that does not even mention Ingrid Bergman in her Oscar winning performance.
Marnie is a good movie….I just think Hitchcock made it to late in his career….when watching the movie….it reminds me of so many of his other movies…that it takes away from the movie…..if he had made in 1955 I think it would be considered a classic…..and a movie like Vertigo would be in Marnie’s shoes.
I am not the biggest fan of The Russia House…I have given it two chances….but I know it has some huge fans of it…..as always thanks for stopping by.
Haha, yes Cogerson, get Kelly something expensive. 🙂
I can now talk about movies I seen in the the top ten lists. I’ve already mentioned my favourites.
Top ten Box office: I have seen seven of them. I have not seen the Indy film, Darby O Gill…., or The Rock.
Top Ten Critics: I have only seen 5: #3, 4, 5, 7, 8. Ouch. Not used to seeing more box office hits than critics hits by more than one. I am more likely to see critical hits than box office hits.
movie Score Ten: I have seen 7. back to normal. I have not seen #1, 7, or 9.
I have seen overall:
7 of his top ten or 70%
top 20: 11 of them or 55% ouch. A bit low for the top 20 for me.
top 30: 14 of 30 or 47%
Total: 16 or 30% overall. The overall amount does not surprise me. I did not expect to have seen many in the bottom half. But I am surprised I dropped so low in the top 20.
Re: interesting facts: I cant totally see why Nivan and Grant were offered Bond. But if McGoohan had been Bond, he couldn’t have been Danger Man or The Prisoner. I had to look up Richard Johnson. When I saw his picture I recognized him right off. Bond does seem to be offered to a certain look of man, yes. (for example, Jeremey Brett was considered after Connery-he couldn’t have been Holmes then. ) the current one is the first rough looker of anyone even considered, never mind winning the role.
Hey Flora…Kelly is the bomb…as she likes to say…she continued to check out the hubs after I stopped the e-mail I used to send out to my friends and family whenever I published a new hub. Hey Flora I am actually 10 for 10 on box office hits….9 for 10 on critic hits…only missing #1 The Hill….and I have seen the first 19 Movie Score movies…then my totals fall off the board….so it looks like Steve will win this round…42 to 29 to 16. I still think for a pretty current actor 16 is a pretty good number for you….Looking at your previous comments many months ago…I am trying to get my wife to watch one your favorite movies tonight when the little ones go to sleep…The Great Train Robbery…which move me into the 30s. Thanks for the revisit.
Hey Flora…I did the same exact thing when I found Richard Johnson was not only a candidate but actually turned down the role because he was trying to get out of his contract with MGM….bad decision there. I agree Daniel Craig really stands out when comparing all the previous Bonds and all the previous Bond candidates and their looks….thanks for the visits today as my Sean Connery hub joined my 1000 hit club today….now onto 2000.
Hey Flora…I did the same exact thing when I found Richard Johnson was not only a candidate but actually turned down the role because he was trying to get out of his contract with MGM….bad decision there. I agree Daniel Craig really stands out when comparing all the previous Bonds and all the previous Bond candidates and their looks….thanks for the visits today as my Sean Connery hub joined my 1000 hit club today….now onto 2000.
Sorry Cogerson, Connery couldn’t save Indy IV, Even wearing his Zardoz outfit. Even Bond has his limits. What could have saved it was a whole better plot and no Shia.
Earliest movie I saw connery in was a Tarzan movie with Gordon Scott as the jungle king and Anthony Quial as an evil poacher out to kill him. One of the better non-Wiestmiller Tarzan’s.
Hey ruffridyer….your comments on Indy IV made me laugh….I guess my thinking is….maybe if Connery would have returned….he would have told Ford, Spielberg and Lucas that their story sucks and should go back to the drawing board. If the Indy IV storyline was the best they could come up with…I really want to see the ones they eliminated from the pile of story pitches.
That early Connery Tarzan movie was #36 Tarzan’s Great Adventure in 1959….I read in one of his biographies that he only took the part so he could travel to Africa and get away from a jealous boyfriend of a girl Connery was hanging out with…thanks for the laugh and the comments
Glad to see ‘The Untouchables’, and ‘The Last Crusade’ make it to the very top of your list. Both are great films. In ‘Crusade’ I think you may agree it’s the chemistry between Connery and Ford which is so special. In ‘The Untouchables’ Connery gets all the best lines in a film full of good dialogue!
Hey Greensleeves….when I first wrote this hub, numerous James Bond fans were very upset that I did not have (insert their favorite Bond movie) ranked higher….but Untouchables and Last Crusade are the movies younger people know Connery from….I agree Connery and Ford;s chemistry made Last Crusade great…I wish Connery had been in Indy IV…maybe he could have saved that disaster of a movie….thanks for stopping by