| Connery's early British TV work is full of serious dramatic roles from classical theater and great literature (re: Sean Connery, forever remembered as cinema's first James Bond, has passed away at age | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 10:48 pm EST 11/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Sean Connery, forever remembered as cinema's first James Bond, has passed away at age 90 - showtunetrivia 11:42 am EDT 10/31/20 | |
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| In 1957 he played Mountain McClintock in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" for "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre". For ITV Television Playhouse in the same year he was Matt Burke in "Anna Christie" with first wife Diane Cilento as Anna with a very young Leo McKern as her father. In 1960, again for "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" he was the young soldier husband Julien in Jean Anouilh's "Colombe" (aka "Mademoiselle Colombe") with a superb cast: Dorothy Tutin, Françoise Rosay and Richard Pasco. He returned to ITV in 1959 as John Proctor in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" with Barbara Chilcott as his wife and a very young Susannah York as Abigail Williams (an enticing piece of casting). Connery also played Bartley in J.M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" on TV in 1960 with Dame Sybil Thorndike. In 1961 came Alexander in "Adventure Story" and that abridged "Macbeth" with Zoe Caldwell. In 1961, he did his last big BBC gig playing Vronsky to Claire Bloom's Anna Karenina. This was released on home video. Connery is ideally cast as Vronsky but the adaptation I think is weak and Bloom plays a rather self-centred Anna who is hard to empathize with. "Dr. No" came right after this and it was bye-bye television, hello movie superstardom for Connery. In the movies Connery was an action hero and dramatic actor in contemporary stories but on British television he was a serious and ambitious dramatic actor - I hope they find more of his work in the BBC archives and release it for home video. Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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