Sean Connery : a biography / Bob McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Bob.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Connery, Sean.

Motion picture actors and actresses--Great Britain--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000.

Summary:

It was Steven Spielberg who declared Sean Connery - whom he had just cast as Harrison Ford's father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - one of the five genuine movie stars in the world.

In a career spanning five decades, Connery has not only achieved global super-stardom, but redefined the screen image of the male. From the suave, iconic cool of James Bond to Indiana Jones's dad, from The Man Who Would Be King to the actor who, in Entrapment, could still convincingly seduce the thirty-year-old Catherine Zeta Jones, Sean Connery has come to embody an ideal of masculinity, virility and responsibility.

This celebratory book tells the story in words and pictures from Connery's impoverished childhood in Edinburgh through to his crucial casting as James Bond 007 and his later rejection of the role in the early 1970s, and to his subsequent rediscovery by a younger generation of filmmakers. Connery's movie career has been consistently compelling. His powerful roles as a father figure to younger stars (culminating in his long overdue Oscar for The Untouchables), and the continuing interest of his most recent work are fully reviewed alongside the achievements that have secured Connery's now unassailable status as a role model, political activist, star, knight of the realm and potent sex symbol.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Thomas of Fountainbridge 8

Chapter 2 The Classless Hero 36

Chapter 3 The Anti-Image 60

Chapter 4 The Character 74

Chapter 5 The Rediscovered Hero 108

Chapter 6 The Father Figure 122

Chapter 7 The Politically Incorrect Sexiest Man Alive 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 167) and index.

Filmography: pages (156-161).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1560252901

9781560252900

OCLC:

45032618

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