Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

The film Wrong is Right ( 1982 ) starring Sean Connery was loosely based on his novel, The Better Angels.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia McBain " Effie " ( née McLean ), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.

Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.

Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.

While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, one of the most ruthless gangs in the city.

Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days.

According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £ 25 a week immediately after the game.

Later in 1957 Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom and Gustavo Rojo ; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.

During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery.

It was directed by Michael Bay, director of Bad Boys, and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.

On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives when he was approached by Sean Connery in golfing attire.

Connery, who also produced the film, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him.

According to Bay, Connery then stood up for Bay and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows ( Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands ); a woman ( Gillian Anderson ) who accepts a date offer from a stranger ( Jon Stewart ); a gay man dying of AIDS ( Jay Mohr ) and his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ) who has struggled to accept him ; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub ( Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie ); a couple having an affair ( Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe ) and a man ( Dennis Quaid ) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar ( Patricia Clarkson ), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman.

Elements of Volume I were used in a very loose feature film adaptation of the same name, released in 2003 and starring Sean Connery.

The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).

By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to flounder, Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express " when I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film ".

Jackson appeared in a number of films including Baby Boom with Diane Keaton, Family Business with Sean Connery, The Pick-up Artist, The Couch Trip and I Love You to Death during the time she was a cast member of Saturday Night Live.

The others in the class said I was a bit Anthony Hopkins and a bit Sean Connery and that went into my head.

Connery would also appear to change categories, such as crossing off letters in the category " I Have a Chardonnay " to make it read " I Have a hardon ," and occasionally covering up entire categories with a piece of paper with a new one on there ( ex.

Before the project could gain momentum Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger, requiring her to leave the series.

Sean Connery, five years before portraying James Bond, starred as McClintock, while Alvin Rakoff produced and, with Serling's approval, also wrote some new material to cover costume changes that took place during commercial breaks on US television, but could not do so on the non-commercial BBC.

While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting.

Recognizing that any surface approach will be seen by Hummel's men, FBI Director James Womack ( John Spencer ) is forced to turn to federal prisoner John Mason ( Sean Connery ), a former MI6 Agent and SAS Captain who has been illegally detained for decades by Womack and his predecessors.

At the time of his death, he was in the process of producing an $ 80 million movie featuring Sean Connery about Saladin and the Crusades, for which he already had the script, that would be filmed in Jordan.

Caine was busy with successes including Sleuth ( 1972 ) opposite Laurence Olivier, and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ) co-starring Sean Connery and directed by John Huston ( which he has stated will be the film he wishes to be remembered for after his death ).

There continued to be an appeal for Australian actors in Hollywood as " action-men ", with the casting of Australian George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery portraying the superspy James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

* Beverly Hills Cop III: Went through multiple script revisions, including a treatment that had Axel Foley teaming up with a Scotland Yard detective to be played by Sean Connery.

Ian Fleming considered Baker to be the ideal candidate to play James Bond in the films but the role went to Sean Connery because Baker had other commitments.

Sean Connery was attached to play the older pilot, Gene Ryack, and the younger flier Billy Covington was at different times to be played by Bill Murray, James Belushi and Kevin Costner.

The dragon ( voiced by Sean Connery ) states that it is the last of its kind, and thus if Bowen kills it he will be out of a job.

Cohen felt it was " very important that dragon's personality be derived from the actor that was going to play the voice ", and said that Connery was the only actor he had in mind for the role.

The proposed Sean Connery Filmhouse would be built over Festival Square in Edinburgh.

While filming this scene, Antoine Saint-John revealed himself to be terrified of horses, and would often hide somewhere on the set when his sword fight with Sean Connery was to be filmed.

Proposals exist for a new Filmhouse to be built, designed by architect Richard Murphy and named the Sean Connery Filmhouse.

That production had starred former bit-part actor Sean Connery, who had been cast by Rakoff at Hill's suggestion, as she felt he would be popular with female viewers.

This leads to Charlie being confrontational, but she calms him when she says she just wants him to be " the Sean Connery of the mathematics department.

In some occasions, Connery appears to have sympathy for Trebek until the wager reveal, which happens to be a rude drawing at Trebek's expense.

When Reynolds appears for the last time on the sketch, he misreads categories in the same way as Connery, and insists that he be addressed as " Turd Ferguson " because, as he states, " it's a funny name.