Sir Billi 2012 Sir Billi
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 Allan Quatermain
Finding Forrester 2000 William Forrester
Entrapment 1999 Robert MacDougal
Playing by Heart 1998 Paul
The Avengers 1998 Sir August de Wynter
The Rock 1996 John Patrick Mason
DragonHeart 1996 Draco
First Knight 1995 King Arthur
Just Cause 1995 Paul Armstrong
A Good Man in Africa 1994 Dr. Alex Murray
Rising Sun 1993 Capt. John Connor
The Princess and the Cobbler 1993 Tack the Cobbler
Medicine Man 1992 Dr. Robert Campbell
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991 King Richard
Highlander II: The Quickening 1991 Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez
The Russia House 1990 Bartholomew ‘Barley’ Scott Blair
The Hunt for Red October 1990 Marko Ramius
Family Business 1989 Jessie
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Professor Henry Jones
The Presidio 1988 Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
The Untouchables 1987 Jim Malone
The Name of the Rose 1986 William of Baskerville
Highlander 1986 Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1984 The Green Knight
Never Say Never Again 1983 James Bond
Five Days One Summer 1982 Douglas Meredith
Wrong Is Right 1982 Patrick Hale
Time Bandits 1981 King Agamemnon / Fireman
Outland 1981 O’Niel
Cuba 1979 Maj. Robert Dapes
Meteor 1979Dr. Paul Bradley
The First Great Train Robbery 1979 Pierce
A Bridge Too Far 1977 Major General Urquhart
The Next Man 1976 Khalil Abdul-Muhsen
Robin and Marian 1976 Robin Hood
The Man Who Would Be King 1975 Daniel Dravot
The Wind and the Lion 1975 Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli
Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Colonel Arbuthnot
Ransom 1974 Col. Nils Tahlvik
Zardoz 1974 Zed
Something Like the Truth 1973 Detective Sergeant Johnson
Diamonds Are Forever 1971 James Bond
The Anderson Tapes 1971 Duke Anderson
The Molly Maguires 1970 Jack Kehoe
Krasnaya palatka 1969 Roald Amundsen
Male of the Species 1969 McNeil
Shalako 1968 Moses Zebulon ‘Shalako’ Carlin
You Only Live Twice 1967 James Bond
A Fine Madness 1966 Samson Shillitoe
Thunderball 1965 James Bond
The Hill 1965 Joe Roberts
Goldfinger 1964 James Bond
Marnie 1964 Mark Rutland
Woman of Straw 1964 Anthony ‘Tony’ Richmond
From Russia with Love 1963 James Bond
Dr. No 1962 James Bond
The Longest Day 1962 Pvt. Flanagan
Anna Karenina 1961 Count Alexis Wronski
On the Fiddle 1961 Pedlar Pascoe
The Frightened City 1961 Paddy Damion
Macbeth 1961 Macbeth
Without the Grail 1960 Innes Corrie
Riders to the Sea 1960 Bartley
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure 1959 O’Bannion
Darby O’Gill and the Little People 1959 Michael McBride
Women in Love 1958 Jewish Pianist/Nazi War Criminal
A Night to Remember 1958 Titanic Deck Hand
Another Time, Another Place 1958 Mark Trevor
Anna Christie 1957 Mat Burke
Action of the Tiger 1957 Mike
Time Lock 1957 Welder #1
Hell Drivers 1957 Johnny Kates
Blood Money 1957 Harlan ‘Mountain’ McClintock
No Road Back 1957 Spike
Lilacs in the Spring 1954

The Untouchables wins it for me, one of my favourite movies ever....but then there's Bond, The Hunt For the Red October, A Bridge too Far, The Presidio, Highlander, the Man who would be King and about another dozen or so classics....

And to think he turned down the role of Gandalf

Neil Oliver is the greatest living Scot.

The Rock.

(Did not know Sean Connery was Scottish :lol:)

Edited by iridium1010: 8/1/2014 10:50:01 PM

Billy Connolly and Kenny Dalglish before Sean Connery.

Top Greatest 100 Scottish People

Who is the greatest Scottish person?

Perhaps the most influential person from a global perspective is David Hume (philosopher) or Adam Smith (economist). From the perspective of Scottish history Robert the Bruce or William Wallace. When compiling this list, there's certainly no shortage of inventors or writers to choose from.

Robert the Bruce – (1274 - 1329) Leader of Revolt against English
Alexander Fleming – (1881 - 1955) Discovered Penicillin
John Logie Baird - (1888 - 1946) Inventor of TV and fibre optics
David Hume (1711 - 1776) – Philosopher and leading figure of European enlightenment.
William Wallace - (1274 - 1305) Rebel and leader of the Scottish
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) – Invented telephone
Alex Ferguson – (1941 - ) Football manager of Aberdeen and Manchester Unite)
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) - Poet and Writer.
James Watt – (1736 - 1819) - Invented Steam Engine
Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) – Economist
J.K. Rowling (1961 - Writer. Born England, but lives in Scotland
Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930) British Prime Minister (1902 to 1906.
Eric Henry Liddell (1902 - 1945) – Olympic athlete in 1924 Paris Games. Immortalised in film ‘Chariots of Fire’
Rev. Patrick Bell (1800 – 1869) - Invented the reaping machine a forerunner of combine harvester.
Billy Connolly (1942 - ) - comedian
Sean Connery (1930 - ) – Oscar winning Actor.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) - Writer
Joseph Black (1728 - 1799) - Chemist. Regarded as the Father of Quantitative Chemistry.
Andrew Bonar-Law (1858 - 1923) - British Prime Minister
Sir James Dewar (1842 - 1923) – Invented vacuum flask.
Lord John Boyd-Orr (1880 - 1971) - Nobel Peace prize in 1947, as Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850) – Engineer
James Boswell (1740 - 1795) - Biographer and Traveller.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) – Author
Jackie Stewart (1939 - ) World Champion Racing Driver
Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873) - Invented the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) - Author. Creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Tony Blair (1953 - British Prime Minister
John Boyd Dunlop (1840 - 1921) – Invented improvement to pneumatic tyre.
Sir David Brewster (1781 - 1868) - Physicist and inventor of kaleidoscope.
William Spiers Bruce (1867 - 1921) - Oceanographer and Polar Explorer.
John Buchan (1875 - 1940) - Author, biographer and politician.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) - Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908.
Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1918) - U.S. Steel magnate and philanthropist.
Gordon Brown (1951 - ) - British Prime Minister from 2007
James Chalmers (1782 - 1853) – Inventor of adhesive postage stamp
James Braid (1795 - 1860) - Surgeon and developed process of Hypnosis.
James Clark (1936 - 1968) – World Racing Champion.
Bill Shankly (1913 - 1981) – Football Manager
George Cleghorn (1716 - 1794) – Doctor who helped discover Quinine as cure for Malaria
Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane (1895 - 1977) – Air Chief in World War Two. Planned Dambusters raid in 1943
James Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915) – Socialist, founder of Independent labour party, forerunner of British Labour Party.
Donald Crisp (1880 - 1974) – Oscar Winning Actor for role in "How Green is my Valley “ 1941.
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866 - 1937) First British Labour Prime Minister. Led the first Labour government in 1924.
Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981) Author.
Kenny Dalglish (1951 - ) Scottish Football player
John Knox (1505 - 1572) – Instrumental in Protestant reformation in Scotland.
Sir Hugh Dalrymple (Lord Drummore) (1700 - 1753) - Invented better drainage system for agriculture.
David Douglas (1798 - 1834)
William Whitelaw (1918 - ) Conservative British Politician
Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding (1882 - 1970) Commander in Chief of Fighter Command during Battle of Britain.
Donald Caskie (1902 - 1983) – Scottish Minister who helped British servicemen flee occupied France.
Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) – Father of Town Planning
Willie Carson (1942 - ) – Race horse jockey.
Charles Mackintosh (1766 - 1843) – Invented Mac Rain coat
James Gregory (1638 - 1675) - Inventor of the first reflecting telescope.
Earl Douglas Haig (1861 - 1928) – Commander of allied troops on Western Front in World War. Later found the Poppy fund for ex-servicemen.
William Hunter (1718 - 1783) - Pioneer in the field of Obstetrics.
Elsie Inglis (1864 - 1917) – Suffragette and leading surgeon
James VI (1566 - 1625) King of England and Scotland.
Saint Kentigern (c. 518 - 613) - The Apostle of Cumbria and Founder of Glasgow.
Kenneth Graham (1859 - 1932) - Author. Including "The Wind in the Willows"
James Lind (1716 - 1794) – Naval doctor. Helped prevent scurvy on naval expeditions.
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 - 1587) - Monarch of Scotland.
Joseph Lister (1827 - 1912) – Pioneered use of antiseptics reducing infections after operations.
Sir Alexander Douglas Home (1903 - 1995) - British Prime Minister (1963).
David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) - Explorer
James Ure (Midge), (1953 - ) Musician.
John McAdam (1756 - 1836) - Surveyor and builder of roads.
Bonnie Charlie (1720 - 1788) -The Young Pretender to the throne of Great Britain
David Niven, (1909-1983) - Actor
Sir Chris Hoy (Cyclist)
Sir Robert McAlpine (1847 - 1934) – Construction Firm.
Norman MacCaig (1910 - 1996) – Poet
Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (1930) - Comic
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 - 1978) Poet. A founder of SNP
Flora MacDonald (1722 - 1790)
Dr. William McEwan (1827 - 1913) - Brewer and Philanthropist.
Sir John Alexander MacDonald (1815 - 1891) - First Prime Minister of Canada.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813 - 1878) – Inventor of the Bicycle.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879] - Mathematician and Physicist.
Andrew Meikle (1719 - 1811) - Inventor of the threshing machine.
Sir William Ramsay (1852 - 1916) – Chemist
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) – Writer and Poet
Muriel Spark (1918 - ) – Author
Ewan McGregor, (1971) - Actor
Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), invented radar
Robbie Coltrane, (1950) - Actor
Donovan, (1946) - Singer
Sir Thomas Lipton (1850 - 1931) – Retail Grocery trade.
Annie Lennox, (1954) - Individual Singer
Lulu (Marie McDonald Lawrie) (1948 - ) - Pop singer
Graham Obree - Cyclist - World Pursuit Champion and broke world hour record
Jo Grimond, (1913-1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956 to 1967
Alex Salmond, Nationalist (SNP leader 1990-2000)
Sir John Sholto Douglas (8th Marquis of Queensberry) (1844 - 1900) Devised the "Queensberry Rules" for boxing in 1867.
Sir William Arrol (1839 - 1913) - Engineer.
George Wishart (1513 - 1546) – Lutheran Martyr
Sir Harry Lauder (1870 - 1950) - Singer and Music Hall Entertainer.
James Young (1811 - 1883) - Chemical Engineer.


http://www.biographyonline.net/british/top-100-scottish.html

To me Sean connery is James Bond . But also loved hunt for read October . And the film he did with kzj yes it was implausible but come one he got to boink Mrs Michael Douglas

Entrapment.

Bond.

That's the one . I watched it in awe ;) even though it's the most implausible movie

Wasn't it in the book supposed to be about the russians? If so I like connery Russian

Yes he was Russian, defecting with The Red October

So his character wasn't russian? I can't remember as I read that book ages ago

Yeah he was a soviet naval officer

Ah ok then . His Russian accent sounded so Scottish . Reminds of Brian brown doing an American accent . :lol:

I shay, Mish Moneypenny.

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James Bond: who was the best 007?

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton or Daniel Craig? For our eyes only, who do you think nailed the James Bond role best?

theguardian.com, Friday 5 October 2012 21.41 AEST

It's a divisive issue that's given rise to endless disputes among film fans – just who is the best actor to have played James Bond?

We've decided to put the matter to the vote, and find out which 007 is rated most highly by Guardian readers. We're sticking rigidly to the films made by Eon Productions – so I'm afraid Bob Holness, David Niven and Barry Nelson are excluded.

Here's a brief run-down of the contenders.

1. Sean Connery

Films: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever

Sample dialogue: "My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!" – Goldfinger

2. George Lazenby

Film: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Sample dialogue: "It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."

3. Roger Moore

Films: Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill

Sample dialogue: Magda: "He suggests a trade. The egg for your life."
Bond: "Well, I heard the price of eggs was up, but isn't that a little high?" – Octopussy

4. Timothy Dalton

Films: The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill

Sample dialogue: "Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of her rifle from the other." – The Living Daylights

5. Pierce Brosnan

Films: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day

Sample dialogue: "What, no small-talk? No chit-chat? That's the trouble with the world today. No one takes the time to do a really sinister interrogation any more." – GoldenEye

6. Daniel Craig

Films: Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall

Sample dialogue: James Bond: "Vodka-martini." Bartender: "Shaken or stirred?" James Bond: "Do I look like I give a damn?" - Casino Royale

Who is cinema's ultimate James Bond?

46%
Sean Connery
3%
George Lazenby
12%
Roger Moore
7%
Timothy Dalton
10%
Pierce Brosnan
22%
Daniel Craig
This poll is now closed

http://www.theguardian.com/film/poll/2012/oct/05/best-james-bond-poll

Edited by Joffa: 9/1/2014 02:42:50 PM

Too young to really appreciate his Bond moments.

Loved the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

I didn't think much of LoEG. My favourites were The Untouchables and Red October.

Is this "fave Sean movie" or "best Sean performance"?

Fave: The Man Who Would Be King. Could watch it a 1,000 times - only issue with it is hearing Sean bellowing An Englishman with pride (I'm sure it stuck in his throat).

Best: The Offense. I don't think Joffa listed it in all those titles. (correction - he did list it, but under its US title "Something Like The Truth") Brilliant performance as a Scottish cop coming apart at the seams as he tries to beat a confession out of an innocent man.

Edited by Benjamin: 9/1/2014 10:45:57 PM

I knew youd choose The Man Who Would Be King as one of your favourites, great movie.

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Is Sean Connery actually James Bond in The Rock?

Fan theory suggests Alcatraz escapee John Mason is really 007. The evidence is convincing…

..By Mark Lankester | Yahoo UK Movies Features – 22 hours ago..

As part of part of our series on mind-blowing movie fan theories, we’re changing the way you watch some of Hollywood’s most famous films. This week: ‘The Rock’.

The theory
That Sean Connery’s convict "John Mason" – the only man to ever escape Alcatraz – is actually an older version of Connery-era 007.

The theory goes that in the mid 1960s, famed British secret agent James Bond was caught spying in the United States, and locked up in infamous island prison Alcatraz (aka The Rock) on espionage charges.

The plot sees the FBI enlist the help of Connery’s character (and his knowledge of Alcatraz), to help Nicolas Cage’s scientist thwart a group of ex-marines bent to destroying San Francisco with chemical weapons, using the prison as a base.


The evidence
Aside from the obvious fact that legendary 007 actor Connery plays both characters, numerous references are dropped throughout ‘The Rock’ to Mason’s shadowy spying past.

Grouchy FBI director Womack introduces Mason as man who was locked up 33 years ago (which would have been the peak of Connery’s Bond career), is SAS trained, and a professional escape artist:

“[He’s] a British national, incarcerated on Alcatraz in 1962… escaped in ’63,” growls Womack. “This man has no identity, not in the United States or Great Britain. He does not exist. Understand?”

This timeframe matches up with Connery first donning the Bond tuxedo for ‘Dr. No’ in 1962, but 'The Rock' implies that he was captured again soon after his Alcatraz escape – though Connery was still playing 007 until 1971 (or 1983 if you count ‘Never Say Never Again’).



Later, when Womack is pressed to give up who their mysterious man is, he reveals Mason was a British operative who stole secret government files from influential FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, but was captured at the Canadian boarder.

“Of course the British claimed they’d never heard of him. And we held him without trial, until he gave up the microfilm. But he never did,” admits the FBI boss.

“This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half-century," he adds. "The alien landing at Roswell, the truth about the JFK assassination. Mason’s angry. He’s lethal. He’s a trained killer. And he is the only hope that we have got.”



Mason himself, played by a then 65-year-old Connery, even boasts to Nicolas Cage’s character: “I was trained by the best… British Intelligence.”

And, in a throwaway gag, the script parodies Connery’s infamous ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ one-liner, when he replies to Cage’s introduction “I’m Stanley Goodspeed”, with a cheeky “but of course you are…”


The verdict
So, is Sean Connery actually playing an ageing James Bond, who was abandoned by us Brits for 30 years? Or, is it just wishful thinking from those of us who wanted to see one last outing for the original 007?

There are so many references in the script that at the very least the writers must have been aware of the Bond parallels, and were just having fun with it.

Brilliantly, 'The Rock' also ties in with one of cinema’s greatest ever fan theories – that “James Bond” is just a codename, inherited by numerous MI6 agents over the years (allowing for different actors to play him within the same movie timeline).

So when Womack tells us Connery's captured spy “doesn’t exist”, it’s because he doesn’t. James Bond never did…

Are you convinced by this fan theory? Let us know in the comments below. Meanwhile, here's a gallery of what some of 007's most memorable Bond girls are up to now:

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/is-sean-connery-actually-james-bond-in-the-rock-123235738.html

Settle down there Mr Bumpy.