As per our current Database, Neil Connery is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Neil Connery is 86 years, 3 months and 19 days old. Neil Connery will celebrate 87rd birthday on a Wednesday 1st of January 2025. Below we countdown to Neil Connery upcoming birthday.
Neil Connery was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Neil Niren Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1 January 1938. The Connery family is of Irish origin. His father Joseph Connery was a truck driver and his mother Euphemia McBain a cleaning woman. Neil had a modest upbringing in a poor area of Edinburgh. Throughout his acting career, Neil has appeared in several films.
Neil Connery's film debut was in O.K. Connery (1967), a James Bond-inspired film. The film was retitled Operation Kid Brother in the United States and is also known as Operation Double 007. It became known for having a number of the original James Bond series actors appearing as similar characters.
In 1969 Connery appeared in the science fiction film The Body Stealers, also known as Thin Air, where he plays Jim Radford, an investigator trying to figure out why paratroopers are disappearing in mid-air.
In 1980, Connery appeared as a guest star in the British TV Series Only When I Laugh. He played the Neil Niren MD - CT character, in the 7th episode ("Last Tango") from the second season.
For most of his life, he worked as a plasterer, until an accident in 1983 ended his career. He is married to Eleanor, with whom he has two daughters.
In 1984, he once again capitalised on his brother's fame in Aces Go Places 3 and made a comeback on the big screen as Mr. Bond.