Sean Connery
De la Wikipedia, enciclopedia liberă
![]() |
Puteţi contribui la Wikipedia prin traducerea lui. |

Sir Thomas Sean Connery -- născut Thomas Connery -- (* 25 august 1930), actor scoţian, laureat al premiului Oscar, larg recunoscut pentru filmele sale în care a întruchipat caracterul cunoscut sub numele de James Bond, un spion modern britanic, al cărui nume de cod era 007. Prenumele de Sean este adăugat ulterior, Sean Connery fiind numele de scenă sub care actorul s-a lansat şi a devenit cunoscut.
Connery este, de asemenea, cunoscut pentru puternicul şi inconfundabilul său accent scoţian, precum şi pentru înfăţişarea sa exterioară, care i-a atras conotaţia de "bărbat foarte bine." Acest ultim aspect fizic al personalităţii actorului a fost subliniat şi accentuat de către multe publicaţii de diferite orientări, fiind de multe ori considerat unul dintre cei mai atractivi bărbaţi din lume, deşi Connery era considerabil mai în vârstă decât alţi "bărbaţi bine." Mulţi comentatori din domeniul filmului îl consideră actualmente mai atractiv decât era în tinereţe.
Cuprins |
[modifică] Viaţă personală
Connery was born in Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Christian mixed-denomination couple. His father, Joseph Connery, was a Catholic of Irish descent with roots in County Wexford, Ireland and his mother, Euphamia "Effie" Maclean, was Protestant. Neither Tommy (Sean) nor his brother, Neil, were raised Catholic. He claims that he was called by his middle name of Sean long before he became an actor, explaining that he had an Irish friend named Seamus and those who knew them decided to call him by his middle name, which started with an "S", whenever he was with Seamus, and it stuck. He joined the Royal Navy after leaving school, and after being discharged on medical grounds went on to a succession of jobs, including truck driver, labourer and lifeguard. He competed for Scotland in the Mr. Universe competition in 1950, which led to work on the stage, TV, and eventually film. As a weight lifter, his nickname was "Big Tam".
He has long advocated Scottish independence, and has supported the Scottish National Party, a political party campaigning for Scottish self-government, financially and through personal appearances. This support is illustrated by a comment from his official website:
- "While it is generally accepted that his support of Scotland's independence and the Scottish National Party delayed his knighthood for many years, his commitment to Scotland has never wavered. Politics in the United Kingdom often has more intrigue than a James Bond plot. While Scotland is not yet independent, she does have a new parliament. Sir Sean campaigned hard for the yes vote during the Scottish Referendum that created the new Scottish Parliament. He believes firmly that the Scottish Parliament will grow in power and that Scotland will be independent within his lifetime." [1]
Connery used part of the fees from his work as James Bond to establish a charity to support deprived children in Edinburgh as well as Scottish Film production. These charitable works may have earned him a Knighthood earlier, but it was revealed in 1997 that the award had been declined by the Labour government due to his support for the SNP.
Connery received the Légion d'honneur in 1991. He received Kennedy Center Honors from the United States in 1999, presented to him by President Bill Clinton. He received a knighthood on July 5, 2000, wearing a hunting tartan kilt of the MacLean of Duart clan. Sean Connery received the Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero from Mireya Moscoso, former president of Panama on 11 March 2003, for his talent and versatility as an actor.
He was married to Australian-born actress Diane Cilento from 1962 until 1973 (he was her second husband). Since 1975, he has been married to French-Moroccan artist Micheline Roquebrune Connery. With Cilento he had a son, Jason Connery, who also became an actor, and was educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England.
In September 2004, media reports indicated that Connery intended to retire after he pulled out of Josiah's Canon, which is to be released in 2005. However, in a December 2004 interview with The Scotsman newspaper from his home in the Bahamas, the then-74 year-old actor denied he was retiring and said he would like to make another movie, but that he is taking a break from acting in order to concentrate on writing his autobiography, but now the book will no longer be written. Just weeks before his 75th birthday, over the weekend of July 30th/31st 2005, it was widely reported in the broadcast media, and again in The Scotsman[2] which credited the source as an interview in an unspecified New Zealand newspaper, that he had decided to retire from film making following disillusionment with the "idiots now in Hollywood" and the turmoil making and box office failure of the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
As a personality he has been accused of being an overbearing bully but has also been praised as a highly professional and polite actor courteous and supportive of those around him. He made a big impression on actors such as Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, and Christopher Lambert, who considered him a great friend during filming.
[modifică] James Bond
Connery este binecunoscut publicului de pretutindeni pentru rolul său James Bond. Pentru prima oară a jucat rolul agentului 007 în pelicula Dr. No (1962) ca apoi să interpreteze acelaşi rol în câteva continuări.
- From Russia with Love (1963)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Thunderball (1965)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Never Say Never Again (1983 unofficial)
Connery a fost descoperit de Harry Saltzman după ce multe nume de posibili candidaţi pentru Bond au fost eliminaţi, printre care Roger Moore, David Niven, Cary Grant, şi mulţi alţii. Ian Fleming, creatorului lui James Bond îi face un omagiu lui Connery în nuvela sa din 1963, On Her Majesty's Secret Service spunând că numele de familie al agentlui 007 este scoţian la origine. Ironic, Fleming a relatat că la casting nu l-a plăcut pe masivul scoţian, afirmând că acesta era prea "brut", dar, cu anumite îndrumări din partea directorului Terence Young, Connery a câştigat în faţa lui Fleming. Young este cel care a ajutat la netezirea "asperităţilor" lui Connery, şi, în acelaşi timp, cel care i-a folosit statura impozantă dar plină de graţia unei feline în timpul secvenţelor pline de acţiune.
Connery's favorite Bond was From Russia with Love, one of the most critically acclaimed films in the series. He confirmed it in a 2002 interview with Sam Donaldson for ABCNews.com. (American Movie Classics erroneously listed Thunderball as Connery's favorite during its recent Bond retrospectives.)
In 1967 Connery quit the role of Bond, having grown tired of the repetitive plots, lack of character development and the general public's demands on him and his privacy (as well as fearing typecasting), which led to Albert R. Broccoli hiring George Lazenby to continue the film franchise in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. After the film's release, however, Lazenby backed out of a seven film contract. Broccoli again asked Connery to return to the role and paid him $1.25 million plus 12.5% of the film's profits, or about $6 million total to do so, at the time the highest salary of any actor. Connery returned one final official time in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, quitting the role shortly after release.
Due to, and at the height of an ongoing legal battle between Broccoli's EON Productions and Kevin McClory (co-writer of Thunderball), McClory was allowed to create a remake of Thunderball after a 10 year span after the release of Thunderball. In the late 1970s McClory teamed with Connery to write an original James Bond film. The project never got off the ground due to further lawsuits brought about by United Artists; however, in 1983 Connery teamed with McClory again to play the role of secret agent James Bond 007 for the seventh and final time in the unofficial film and remake Never Say Never Again. The title of the film has long believed to have derived from Connery's comments after the release of Diamonds Are Forever who after filming it, claimed he would never play James Bond again. (For the legal battle see the controversy of Thunderball)
Connery returned to the role once more in 2005, providing the voice and likeness of James Bond for the video game adaptation of From Russia with Love.
Over 40 years since he first played the role, Connery is still widely regarded as the definitive cinematic incarnation of James Bond, despite credible interpretations of the character by the likes of Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and what many believe to be a more authentic literary performance by Timothy Dalton. Connery's own feelings on Bond in interviews has run the gamut from bitter resentment to great fondness. At one point he joked he hated Bond so much that he'd have killed him, but he has also stated that he never hated Bond, he merely wanted to pursue other roles. Certainly, when the James Bond series was at its peak in the mid-1960s, his association with the 007 image was so intense that fine performances in his non-Bond films, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and Sidney Lumet's The Hill, were being virtually ignored at the time. When asked if he'd ever escape the identification, he replied "It's with me till I go in the box." At another point, he stated that he still cared about the future of the character and franchise, having been associated with the icon for too long not to care, and that all Bond films had their good points.
[modifică] Cariera după James Bond
Deşi cel mai renumit rol al său a fost cel al lui James Bond, Sean Connery şi-a păstrat de atunci cariera plină de succes, având de altfel mult mai mult succes decât alţi actori care au jucat acest rol. Ca parte a înţelegerii de a juca în "Diamantele sunt pentru totdeauna", Sean Connery a primit undă verde de a produce două filme la United Artists, dar a simţit că singurul film realizat prin această înţelegere, "Jignirea", a fost distrus de studio. În afară de filmul "Bărbatul care va fi rege", majoritatea succeselor lui Connery din următorul deceniu au făcut parte dintr-un ansamblu de casting-uri, în filme precum: "Crimă în Orient Express" şi "Un pod îndepărtat". După experienţa din "Niciodată să nu mai spui niciodată" şi cazul de la tribunal care a urmat, Connery era nemulţumit de marele studiouri şi, timp de doi ani nu a mai făcut nici un film. În timpul producţiei europene "Numele trandafirului", interesul lui Connery pentru materialul mai credibil a reapărut. Rolul său de poliţist cu nas fin din "The Untouchables" din 1987 i-a adus un Oscar pentru cel mai bun actor în rol secundar. Ulterioarele reuşite la box-office precum "Indiana Jones şi ultima cruciadă" din 1989 şi "Octombrie roşu" din 1990 i-au asigurat locul ...... Mai târziu a primit "Globul de cristal" pentru contribuţia artistică remarcabilă adusă lumii cinematografiei. În ultimii ani, filmografia lui Connery a inclus partea ce i se cuvenea de box-office dar şi dezamăgiri precum "Răzbunătorii" din 1998 şi "Liga gentlemenilor extraordinari" (2003), însă a primit reacţii pozitive pentru filme precum "În căutarea lui Forrester". Connery a planificat să apară într-un film cu un buget de 80 milioane de dolari despre Saladin şi Cruciaţii, care urma să fie filmat în Iordania înainte de moartea producătorului Moustapha Akkad în urma bobardamentului de la Amman din 2005.
Although his most famous role was that of James Bond, Sean Connery has also maintained a highly successful career since, much more so than the other actors who assumed the role. As part of the agreement to appear in Diamonds are Forever, Connery was given a carte blanche to produce two films at United Artists but felt that the only film made under this deal, The Offence, was buried by the studio. Apart from The Man Who Would Be King, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts, in films like Murder on the Orient Express and A Bridge Too Far. After the experience with Never Say Never Again and the following court case Connery became unhappy with the major studios and for two years did not make any films. Following the European production The Name of the Rose Connery's interest in more credible material was revived. His performance as a hard-nosed cop in The Untouchables (1987) earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Subsequent box-office hits such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and The Hunt for Red Octoberî (1990) secured his place as a bankable leading man. He later received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema. In more recent years, Connery's filmography has included its fair share of box office and critical disappointments such as The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), but he also received positive reviews for films including Finding Forrester (2000).
He was planning to star in a $80 million movie about Saladin and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the death of the producer Moustapha Akkad as a result of the 2005 Amman bombings.
[modifică] Filmografie
- Lilacs in the Spring(1955) (role unconfirmed)
- No Road Back (1957)
- Hell Drivers (1957)
- Action of the Tiger (1957)
- Time Lock (1957)
- Another Time, Another Place (1958)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
- Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
- On the Fiddle (1961)
- The Frightened City (1961)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Dr. No (1962)
- From Russia with Love (1963)
- Marnie (1964)
- Women of Straw (1964)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- The Hill (1965)
- Thunderball (1965)
- A New World (1966) (Cameo)
- A Fine Madness (1966)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Shalako (1968)
- The Bowler and the Bonnet (1969) (documentary) (also director)
- The Molly Maguires (1970)
- The Red Tent (1971)
- The Anderson Tapes (1971)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- A Spain Golf Course (1972) (short subject)
- The Offence (1973)
- Zardoz (1974)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- The Terrorists (1975)
- The Dream Factory (1975) (documentary)
- The Wind and the Lion (1975)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Robin and Marian (1976)
- The Next Man (1976)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- The Great Train Robbery (1979)
- Meteor (1979)
- Cuba (1979)
- Outland (1981)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- G'ole! (1982) (documentary) (narrator)
- Five Days One Summer (1982)
- Wrong Is Right (1982)
- Sean Connery's Edinburgh (1983) (short subject)
- Never Say Never Again (1983)
- Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
- Highlander (1986)
- The Name of the Rose (1986)
- The Untouchables (1987) as Jim Malone
- The Presidio (1988)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- The Hunt for Red October (1990)
- The Russia House (1990)
- Medicine Man (1992) (also executive producer)
- Rising Sun (1993) (also executive producer)
- A Good Man in Africa (1994)
- Just Cause (1995)
- First Knight (1995)
- Dragonheart (1996) (voice)
- The Rock (1996) (also executive producer)
- The Avengers (1998)
- Entrapment (1999) (also producer)
- Finding Forrester (2000)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
[modifică] Trivia
- Sean Connery, as a youth, had a job delivering milk to Fettes College, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was James Bond's second school.
- In the cartoon series Sonic Underground, Connery is the voice of Athair, great-grandfather of Knuckles the Echidna.
- First American television role was as a porter in an episode of The Jack Benny Show.
- Darrell Hammond plays Connery in the Celebrity Jeopardy sketches on Saturday Night Live. In these sketches, Connery is the contestant on all but two of the sketches, where he insults host Alex Trebek (played by Will Ferrell) of withering invective and sexual innuendo, and answers no questions right. The sketches aired twice a season on SNL from 1996-2002, and returned once more when Ferrell guest-hosted in 2005.
- Starred in Never Say Never Again with Klaus Maria Brandauer. Ironically, Brandauer was originally considered to play Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October.
- Has tattoo that says "Scotland Forever" on his forearm.
- Sean Connery's line in Finding Forrester, "You're the man now dog," became immortalized as the phrase that started the YTMND website.
[modifică] External links
- His official website
- Sean Connery at the Internet Movie Database
- BBC: 1999 Biography
- Classic Movies (1939–1969): Sean Connery
- Sean Connery Fan
Seriile de filme Indiana Jones | |
---|---|
Filme | The Temple of Doom (1984) | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | The Last Crusade (1989) | Indiana Jones 4 (2008) |
Televiziune | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996) |
Personaje | Indiana Jones | Willie Scott | Marion Ravenwood | Elsa Schneider Marcus Brody | Short Round | Henry Jones, Sr. |
Distribuţie | Harrison Ford | Sean Connery | Corey Carrier | Sean Patrick Flanery | George Hall |
Echipa | George Lucas | Steven Spielberg | Frank Marshall | John Williams |
Format:Sequence Format:Sequence
Categorii: Articole de tradus din limba engleză | Naşteri în 1930 | Actori | Actori scoţieni | Actori întruchipând James Bond | Best Supporting Actor Oscar | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Irlandezi | Knights Commander of the British Empire | Nativi ai oraşului Edinburgh | Producători de film britanici | Scoţieni