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Sean Connery

1930 - 2020

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Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Connery originated the role in Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sean Connery has received more than 40,242,855 page views. His biography is available in 124 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2019). Sean Connery is the 19th most popular actor (down from 13th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 45th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Actor.

Sean Connery is most famous for his role as James Bond in the James Bond series of films.

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  • 40M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 124

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sean Connery ranks 19 out of 13,578. Before him are Clint Eastwood, Marlene Dietrich, Amitabh Bachchan, Anthony Quinn, Sarah Bernhardt, and Richard Burton. After him are Bette Davis, Louis de Funès, Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jackie Chan, and Sophia Loren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Sean Connery ranks 3. Before him are Neil Armstrong, and Clint Eastwood. After him are Michael Collins, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Helmut Kohl, Warren Buffett, Pierre Bourdieu, George Soros, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, and Jean-Luc Godard. Among people deceased in 2020, Sean Connery ranks 2. Before him is Diego Maradona. After him are Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Kirk Douglas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Pierre Cardin, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Qasem Soleimani, Alan Parker, and Max von Sydow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sean Connery ranks 49 out of 8,785. Before him are John Dalton (1766), Bertrand Russell (1872), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), David Ricardo (1772), Cecil Rhodes (1853), and Richard Burton (1925). After him are Francis Drake (1540), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), Oliver Cromwell (1599), Thomas More (1478), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Charles Babbage (1791).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Sean Connery ranks 4. Before him are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Anthony Hopkins (1937), and Richard Burton (1925). After him are Alan Rickman (1946), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Christopher Lee (1922), Liam Neeson (1952), Ian McKellen (1939), Maggie Smith (1934), Roger Moore (1927), and Michael Caine (1933).

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Television and Movie Roles

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Professor Henry Jones
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
May 24o 19897.85 / 10
The Rock
John Patrick Mason
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the stills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Jun 7o 19967.132 / 10
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Allan Quatermain
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Jul 11o 20035.964 / 10