Aug. 25, 2025

Sean Connery Beyond Bond

Sean Connery Beyond Bond

Celebrating Sean Connery's birthday by exploring his acclaimed film career outside the world of international espionage.

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Callaroga Shark Media Greeting's trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and

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today we're celebrating Sean Connery's birthday by exploring his incredible

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career beyond James Bond. Question one, in which nineteen eighty

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seven crime drama did Sean Connery win his only Academy

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Award for Best Supporting Actor? Question two? What nineteen ninety

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submarine thriller featured Connery as a Soviet captain attempting to

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defect with his vessel? Question three? In Indiana Jones and

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The Last Crusade, what relation was Sean Connery's character to

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Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones? Question four? Which nineteen ninety six

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Michael Bay action film starred Connery as the only man

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to ever escape from Alcatraz Prison? Question five? In what

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nineteen seventy four Agatha Christie adaptation did Connery appear alongside

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an all star cast to solve a murder on a

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famous train. We'll be right back with these non Bond

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answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans, Let's reveal

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today's answers. Question one in which nineteen eighty seven film

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did Connery win his Oscar Answer The Untouchables. Connery played

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Irish American cop Jim Malone, who helped Kevin Costner's elliot

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Ness take down al Capone in Prohibition era Chicago. Question

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two What nineteen ninety submarine thriller featured Connery as a

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Soviet captain Answer The Hunt for Red October based on

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Tom Clancy's novel. Connery played Captain Marco Ramius, who attempts

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to defect to the United States with the Soviet Navy's

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most advanced submarine. Question three, What was Connery's relation to

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Indiana Jones? Answer his father? Connery played Professor Henry Jones Senior,

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Indiana's archaeology obsessed father, who was searching for the Holy Grail.

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Question four which nineteen ninety six Michael Bay film featured

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Connery as an Alcatraz escapee? Answer The Rock. Connery played

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the only inmate to ever successfully escape from Alcatraz, who

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is recruited to help retake the island from rogue marines.

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Question five What nineteen seventy four Agatha Christie adaptation included

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Connery Answer Murder on the Orient Express. This star studded

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adaptation featured Connery alongside Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergmann, and others

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in Sydney Lumet's acclaimed mystery that wraps up today's celebration

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of Sean Connery's diverse film career. I'm Mark Ellison in

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This podcast was crafted with the help of AI technology.

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See you tomorrow.