Sean Connery

Sean Connery & Murray Grigor - Being a Scot

4 Sep 2008

Many Scots cynics, upon seeing the title of this new coffee table volume by our most famous actor, might be inspired to enquire just how much research on the subject can be done by an ex-pat who hasn't lived in the country for decades. It's an…

EIFF mark Sean Connery 80th with The Man Who Would Be King screening

26 May 2010

The 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival is marking Sean Connery's 80th birthday with a Gala screening of John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King, the much-loved 1975 film in which Connery stars, alongside Micheal Caine, as an adventurer in…

St Andrew's Day - The best film from Scotland

Our editors pick highlights from Scottish film through history

25 Nov 2011

Scotland shares Saint Andrew with areas of Russia, Romania, Greece and Malta, though this list is closed to the corruption of arthouse favourites like Theo Angelopoulos and Sergei Bondarchuk with their long names and even longer films. We’re assuming St…

007 Licensed to thrill at ECA retrospective

1 Nov 2007

A rare life study of Sir Sean Connery has been included in the Edinburgh College of Art Centenary Exhibition, Ten Decades, at the capital’s City Art Centre. The oil on canvas, which captures the star in barely there underwear, was painted by…

Sean Connery on form as EIFF The Man Who Would Be King screening marks 80th year

Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog

21 Jun 2010

Yet another early start on Sunday, but I’d learnt my lessons from the morning after the Opening Gala, and hadn’t over-indulged at the Ghillie Dhu ceilidh the night before. Thus, I was fighting fit to attend Der Räuber (The Robber) at the Cameo, a…

Sean Connery set for Indy return

Celebrity Gossip

18 Sep 2009

Sean Connery is set to return to the 'Indiana Jones' franchise. The 79-year-old actor turned down the chance to reprise his role as the father of the daredevil archaeologist in last movie 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', and the…

Home James - Sean Connery

Edinburgh International Book Festival

22 Jul 2008

As Sean Connery returns to Edinburgh for a date in Charlotte Square Gardens, author Ewan Morrison recalls growing up in the ultimate 007’s shadow and wallowing in those iconic one-liners

Bound for glory - James Bond

Edinburgh International Book Festival

22 Jul 2008

With a new Bond movie on the way in the creator’s centenary year, 007 fever is rising. David Pollock flicks through an exhibition celebrating the cover designs of Ian Fleming’s pulp novels With Daniel Craig now installed as an updated, reinvigorated…

Festival frenzy as Edinburgh gears up for August

3 Jul 2008

With just three weeks until Edinburgh officially takes its place in the spotlight as one of the world's greatest cultural playgrounds, festival news and views have been coming in thick and fast. Perhaps most contentious is the news that after capturing…

Sean Connery to appear as part of Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008 programme

12 Jun 2008

Catherine Lockerbie today celebrated 25 years of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, announcing the biggest and most international programme ever. The packed series of literary and political events taking place in Charlotte Square Gardens this…

Kiera Knightley and Sienna Miller set for Edinburgh premiere of The Edge of Love

9 Jun 2008

Edinburgh International Film Festival opening night film The Edge of Love will see the film's director John Maybury joined by headliners Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys together with writer Sharman Macdonald on the red carpet.

Sir Sean back to Bond?

24 Apr 2008

With James Bond flick Quantum of Solace well into production, unconfirmed rumours continue that Sir Sean Connery will join Daniel Craig in the cast as one of 007’s many enemies. The film’s theme song will come courtesy of Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson.

Portrait of scantily clad Sir Sean on display in Edinburgh

25 Oct 2007

A portrait of Sir Sean Connery painted just before he secured his seminal role as James Bond is on display in an exhibition in Edinburgh. The picture, which gives a side-on view of the 007 star, was painted in 1952 by Al Fairweather, a jazz musician…

Photography centre in the frame for Capital building

8 Aug 2007

Plans for a military museum in Edinburgh’s old Royal High School have been abandoned, making way for a proposed photography centre backed by Sean Connery. The campaign for a £20 million national photography centre, which will tell a ‘story of Scotland’…

Edinburgh film festival moves to June after 60 years

8 Aug 2007

Organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) have announced plans to hold the event two months earlier next year, in a bid to move outside the city’s renowned festival season. The switch will see the film festival take place June…