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Sean Connery plaque near the site of his birth in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh Connery's birth certificate. Thomas Sean Connery was born at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 25 August 1930; he was named after his paternal grandfather. [7] [8] He was brought up at No. 176 Fountainbridge, a block which has since been demolished ...
Len Deighton, Sean Connery, Kevin McClory: Kevin McClory for Paramount Pictures: Sean Connery (reportedly being paid US$5M) [68] Financing and legal troubles doomed the project. McClory eventually licensed his rights to Jack Schwartzman who made Never Say Never Again, which has an entirely different screenplay.
He arranged the script and engaged Sean Connery and Ian MacShane then went to British Lion, who agreed to provide the $1.5 million budget. They sold US and Canadian rights to 20th Century Fox for $800,000, and sold the rights for the rest of the world for $1 million, making a comfortable profit.
It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with supporting roles played by Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse, and John Spencer. Connery plays a former SAS captain and Cage an FBI chemist, who must rescue hostages from a rogue group of Force Recon Marines on Alcatraz Island.
Actor Sean Connery bought the property in 1979, comprising the château and its surrounding 266 hectares. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He owned the property for 20 years before selling it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999.
Anita Ekberg was reportedly devastated upon learning that James Bond star Sean Connery had got married. The Swedish film star, who shot to fame after appearing in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La ...
Sean Connery vs. Stephen Norrington. By his own admission, Connery was once offered the chance to portray Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. To entice the former James Bond ...
Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film and the seventh film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).