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Beyond Bond: Sean Connery’s 14 Most Memorable Non-007 Film Roles


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I would say the roles i think about him most in, other than as Bond, are in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and strangely enough, Time Bandits.

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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No particular order of preference.

Name of the Rose
The Rock (where he showed Nic Cage how to act)
Untouchables
Highlander
Last Crusade
Hunt for Red October
Medicine Man
First Great Train Robbery
Presidio
Entrapment

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Good list. Medicine Man is underrated.

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The Rock

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Agreed. I'd also add his early 1960s cult films A Fine Madness & The Hill.

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Word. No Zardoz, either.

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I love Zardoz! A film that simply couldn't be made today.

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My faves would be Marnie, The Man Who Would Be King, Highlander, The Untouchables & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Connery's Twenty Best Films

Dr. No (1962) d. Terence Young
From Russia With Love (1963) d. Terence Young
Goldfinger (1964) d. Guy Hamilton
Marnie (1964) d. Alfred Hitchcock
Thunderball (1965) d. Terence Young
The Hill (1965) d. Sidney Lumet
You Only Live Twice (1967) d. Lewis Gilbert
The Red Tent (1969) d. Mikhail Kalatozov
The Molly Maguires (1970) d. Martin Ritt
The Anderson Tapes (1971) d. Sidney Lumet
The Offence (1973) d. Sidney Lumet
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) d. Sidney Lumet
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) d. John Huston
Robin and Marion (1976) d. Richard Lester
Outland (1981) d. Peter Hyams
Time Bandits (1981) d. Terry Gilliam
The Name of the Rose (1986) d. Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Untouchables (1987) d. Brian De Palma
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) d. Steven Spielberg
Hunt for the Red October (1990) d. John McTiernan

(I should probably throw in The Wind and the Lion and The Great Train Robbery, too)

*Diamonds Are Forever, Zardoz, and Never Say Never Again are guilty pleasures.

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I loved him in The Presidio, a mediocre but fun action movie with Mark Harmon and Meg Ryan. He had that scene where he beat a guy with his thumb.

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