Sean Connery

by Michael Feeney Callan

Book Overview

Sean Connery is reputedly argumentative and tight-fisted; he is also fiercely patriotic (he sports a Scotland Forever tattoo), a consummate professional and, now in his 70s, still dashing, charismatic and regarded by some as the world's sexist man. Born into a poor Edinburgh family, Sean Connery dreamed of being rich enough to own a piano. After time as a choirboy, coffin polisher, nude model and bodybuilder, he decided he wanted to act, and his perseverance finally paid off when he beat better-known competition to play the first James Bond in Dr No. His suave and sophisticated 007 became a worldwide cult figure and turned him into a (reluctant) superstar.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852279923
• ISBN13: 9781852279929
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Virgin Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Unveiling a Very Private Man!

The life of Sean Connery, arguably the most popular movie star of the past 40 years and everyone's favorite James Bond, is examined in this updated edition of a book first published in 1983. It is the best biography of Connery this reviewer has come across. Callan does a marvelous job of revealing this gifted actor and most private of men. Talking with many of Connery's friends and movie business associates along with quotes from Connery himself, he has fashioned a comprehensive account of the born-into-poverty Thomas Connery who became a screen legend as James Bond. Tiring of the 007 hype and worried of being typecast, Connery broke away to chart his own, iconoclastic career in movies. His subsequent track record was mixed: Marnie, The Hill, Zardoz, Time Bandits, The Man Who Would be King, The Wind and The Lion, Medicine Man, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, etc. but whatever the movie, Connery was always eminently watchable. Connery marched to the sound of his own drummer and, as revealed in this book, was always quite ready to speak his mind or take legal action. In most ways, he was as fascinating a person off the screen as he was on. Sean Connery fans will want this book. In 286 fast-paced pages, Michael Callan gives us a multi-dimensional portrait of one fascinating human being.