# Sean Connery movie--Oscar winner **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395 "2017-01-17T15:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/1 "2017-01-17T15:58:30Z")
In which Sean Connery movie, for which he won an Oscar, did his character die? I heard the question on \*Jeopardy \* last night, but when Alex gave the answer somebody here made some loud noise and I missed hearing the answer. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/2 "2017-01-17T16:00:25Z")
The Untouchables ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/3 "2017-01-17T17:46:33Z")
Thanx 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/4 "2017-01-17T18:04:07Z")
His only nomination. He also dies in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING which I’d also rate as one of his best performances. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/5 "2017-01-17T20:50:23Z")
Did he usually speak without an English/Scottish accent? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/6 "2017-01-17T21:00:49Z")
Well, he didn’t get a nomination but he also died in the beginning of “You Only Live Twice”, but, you know, he lives twice.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/7 "2017-01-17T21:21:24Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Did he usually speak without an English/Scottish accent? No. Even his character on **The Untouchables** was an Irishman with a Scottish accent. There is a YouTube channel called “Facts.” where Irish people react to things, and they laughed hysterically at his “Irish” accent. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/8 "2017-01-17T21:27:00Z")
He played Irishmen in _The Untouchables_, _The Longest Day_, _The Molly Maguires_, and _Darby O’Gill and the Little People_, but always with a Scottish accent. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/9 "2017-01-17T22:45:27Z")
IIRC, he had his head lopped off in, “Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”\* but he just walked across the room, picked it up and screwed it back on. \*Title is best part of film. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/10 "2017-01-17T22:54:41Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > IIRC, he had his head lopped off in, “Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”\* but he just walked across the room, picked it up and screwed [ol] > [/ol] it back on. > > \*Title is best part of film. That would have been a sight to see. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/11 "2017-01-17T23:03:12Z")
They wanted SC for, “Skyfall,” but decided that would be confusing as he wouldn’t be playing Bond but everyone would see him as Bond, so they “settled” for Albert Finney, who blew his part outta the water: KA-BOOM! (Bad guy drops) “Welcome to Scotland.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/12 "2017-01-17T23:09:15Z")
OK, so movies Sean Connery dies in are: Highlander (he got better…somehow) Untouchables Sword of the Valiant What else? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/13 "2017-01-17T23:11:50Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > OK, so movies Sean Connery dies in are: > > Highlander (he got better…somehow) > Untouchables > Sword of the Valiant > > What else? League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/14 "2017-01-17T23:18:18Z")
“Robin and Marian.” She poisons him and herself. They both die. Da end. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/15 "2017-01-17T23:52:04Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > He played Irishmen in _The Untouchables_, _The Longest Day_, _The Molly Maguires_, and _Darby O’Gill and the Little People_, but always with a Scottish accent. Connery played a Soviet Navy submarine captain (of Lithuanian extraction) in _The Hunt for Red October_, speaking phonetic Russian with a distinct Scottish burr in a way no Balto-Slavic speaker has every pronounced their respective languages. If you know Russian, it is the weirdest sounding pronounciation ever, like a Jamaican speaking Mandarian or Ron Perlman talking in a little girl’s voice. Also, I don’t know what Sam Neill’s accent was supposed to be, but it was not Russian. “…and I will live in Montana, and I will marry a round American woman, and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck, or possibly even a…recreational vehicle.” It’s not quite Boris and Natasha, but it gives John Malkovich’s ‘Teddy KGB’ a run for his money. Most of the actors, Tim Curry aside, manage a reasonable approximation of Russian or Ukrainian accents. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/16 "2017-01-18T00:40:32Z")
Sean’s Scottish accent is pretty unusual in itself, it’s like his dentures don’t fit properly, or his tongue is too big for his mouth or something. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/17 "2017-01-18T00:51:50Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > OK, so movies Sean Connery dies in are: > > Highlander (he got better…somehow) > Untouchables > Sword of the Valiant > > What else? See my post above. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/18 "2017-01-18T02:00:49Z")
He also died in Highlander II, but for some people, that movie doesn’t exist, so it might not count. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/19 "2017-01-18T20:58:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Highlander (he got better…somehow) Magic! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-movie-oscar-winner/777395/20 "2017-01-18T22:11:58Z")
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