Book description
Among European actors Sean Connery is unparalleled in his
achievements. Having extended his career from theatrical successes
through every genre of film, as James Bond he became the backbone of
the most lucrative movie franchise in history.
Born in an Edinburgh tenement, Sean Connery later served time as a
milkman, cabinet polisher and art model. He turned to acting on a
whim, and early onstage success in South Pacific translated into a TV
and movie career. Taking his talents such as The Name of the Rose, The
Hunt for Red October and The Rock. His role as Jimmy Malone in Brian
De Palma's The Untouchables won him an Academy Award, which many saw
as recongnition of a body of superlative screen creations over twenty years.
An authoritative, extremely comprehensive look at an actor whose
enormous success as James Bond has obscured much about him. Irish Times
