Sean Connery's First Appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - 12/5/1975

Connery discusses his early acting career, challenges of the Bond franchise, and along with Michael Caine introduces a clip from his about to be released film, "The Man Who Would Be King." Forty years later, in 2015, Sir Sean would describe this classic as his favourite: "It was a tremendous film to make." The interview includes ads from the original broadcast.

[@ramongonzalez2112]

I was 11 back then; stayed up with my bro, watching Johnny during the Summer vacation and Fridays. Great times. Even the commercials are cool.👍

[@freedomofspeech2238]

Thanks for leaving the commercials in there, feels like going back in time

[@Stenbrotsgatan]

Its refreshing to hear them talking in a calm slow manner about their work and no ego talk like today…”hey I’m popular look at me”.

[@ramongonzalez2112]

Late-night today is a bunch non-funny political activists🤢

[@normabrien8331]

These group of actors did their country proud: O’Toole, Connery, Caine, Bates, Burton and many more, they were a very talented and funny. Their drinking escapes were historical. There will never be another like them.

[@fshome]

O'Toole was irish, Connery was Scotch, Burton was Welsh. Maybe missing from this list was Reed and Harris

[@normabrien8331]

@@fshome of.course you are right.

[@waynej2608]

​@@fshomeAll big time boozers. But I think that if there had to just one, it has to be Oliver Reed. 😂

[@johnw8984]

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[@johngraves6878]

What a great clip THAT was -- 3 of the heaviest of heavyweight actors -- Sean, Michael, and Christopher Plummer! WOW! I have never seen this film, but have heard extraordinary things about it. The commercials were hilarious, crude, manipulative. Thanks for posting!

[@waynej2608]

It was a fantastic film. All three guys are awesome and it was directed by the great John Huston. Huston had originally planned to make it in the 1950s with Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracey in the lead roles, but it fell through. Fortunately, he got to make it in the 1970s with the equally impressive Caine and Connery.

[@milankovacevic1483]

Gotta love the chemistry between Michael and Sean. :) it's as if they just had a fight backstage.

[@nicolakirton2252]

They were an absolutely natural pairing, because I always thought of Michael Caine as the English version of Sean Connery, so it came as no surprise that they were great friends in real life.

[@dowdallerno1]

Thanks for the upload. Two very talented actor's.

[@moow950]

Three: Sean Connery, Michael Cain and Christopher Plumber (in the movie)

[@augustseptember3503]

As a biographer once said, Redford and Newman were friendly on The Sting and Connery and Caine were on The Man who would be King!

[@theknob1]

This is awesome thank you.

[@timbaktuthankgod2737]

Even the ads had heart and tune earlier! The host listened! How did humanity degenerate in creativity so much?!!!

[@carlosporras816]

We are grateful for Shatner has allowed the clip to be seen. Hence, the interview is complete. Thanks.

[@456zounds]

What does Bill Shatner have to do with this interview?

[@johngraves6878]

007 Captain Kirk! Hey, they both specialized in regime change. James: A classic boys' name derived from the Hebrew name Jacob. It means "supplanter." Supplanter often refers to governments and rulers of countries, and it comes from the verb SUPPLANT, which evolved from the Latin supplantare, meaning "to trip up or to overthrow." I'm not making this up....look it up.

[@Bertiesghost]

Three legends

[@joanne26]

Sean for me was the ‘best bond’ for many reasons but I was born in 1965 and still love everything about the 60’s now. This interview from 1975 is awesome👍 👍 A time when men could and would show off their MASCULINITY and Sean sure was the Alpha Male And women could and would show off their FEMININITY Similarly for Michael Just great actors along with their peers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@user-yp3oj5se1i]

Britzi flags?? they still are far worse than nazis were for a 6 years war . Both Irish DNA actors. There is no such thing as british dna as the dna on both Irish islands is majority Irish and then some scandinavians related to Irish that were taken in by the indigenous Irish as the roman cult paid off upper class to allow them into society . Both Irish islands are still majority Irish DNA. romano brit invasion stories are fake. Less then 2% romano brit DNA is present in the island erroneously named by a religious cult as 'britannia'. They didn't show off maleness. Acting appropriately is not "Alpha" or male or female.

[@Poetic_Justice1962]

Alpha male? Sean was a man, not an animal.

[@ianmangham4570]

​@Poetic_Justice1962 Negatory, ANIMAL 🤠🙏

[@steveconn]

That cigar lighting scene was pretty cool.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

I like in this video that the old commercials are left in. I used to use Tone soap and still like Milky Way bars.

[@steveconn]

Sort of a mournful, honest interview.

[@ianmangham4570]

😮The size of that milky way /mars bar 😮

[@ianmangham4570]

The DUKE "The Anderson Tapes" AWESOME 👌

[@freudenberg101]

The good old days just referenced the good old days when you could drink on TV. 😄 what are we talking, pre prohibition?

[@R._Thornhill]

Back in the day, they would show long clips of the movie. Today they show you like 10 seconds and expect you to go see it based on that.

[@carlosporras816]

Uppss, it did not finish. There is a bit more of the interview..

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

JOHNNY CARSON 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1925 23 DE ENERO DE 2005 79 AÑOS

[@ianmangham4570]

Awesome, i remember when Roger Moore bumped into Michael Caine in London, Michael said "Fuck me its Roger Moore" 😅

[@dennisgingrich4963]

I don't know if this is the correct Connery episode but I do remember that Ed McMahon pronounced his name as SEEN Connery on one of the Connery episodes!!!

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Thomas Sean Connery (Edimburgo, Escocia, 25 de agosto de 1930-Nasáu, Bahamas, 30 de octubre de 2020) fue un actor y productor de cine británico, que ganó, entre otros premios, un premio Óscar, dos premios BAFTA (uno de ellos, un BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) y tres premios Globo de Oro (uno de ellos, un premio Cecil B. DeMille a la trayectoria).

[@peterrichards931]

Connery walked into the show without any recognition of the audience's applause. A complex man, and I'm sure he didn't mean anything fundamentally negative towards them. The 'press manager' for the Bond film however, who was 'just wrong' may be another thing. I'm sure he was a nice guy overall, but due to maybe a difficult childhood, 'baggage' weighs on a man. The best Bond of them all though...and I'm certain he had great qualities which we never knew or heard about.

[@RIUUI007]

You are incorrect in your observations here. Connery does too recognise the applause of the audience. Watch it again, he nods his head to the audience. It's a case of 'blink and you'll miss it' but it's there. I thought it was a genuine and sincere, however minor and conservative, recognition of the people in the audience.

[@ianmangham4570]

You should have gone to specsavers 👓

[@21street-erfication90]

...then he slapped the bitc# and told her to fix his ☕! (just kidding; couldn't help myself.) Rest in Peace to the legendary,

[@RIUUI007]

The boom mic operator must've been an intern 🤨

[@MrPhillpots]

Can't believe sean as a Scotsman calls whisky a scotch.?

[@yttommy76]

If he had asked for a whiskey he’d have got some bourbon

[@aleccap5946]

And no wig

[@curtgobra8319]

WAS THAT REAL ALCOHOL?

[@tehf00n]

So correct about the English accent for pomposity in theatre. It was nice to have that clarity during specific periods of theatre, and in specific renditions, but acting doesn't limit one's self to a colloquialism or dialectical standard unless it's imperative to the nature of the storyline. Or as we say up north.... Tek plum out yer mowf yer silly sod.

[@user-yp3oj5se1i]

the fake culture english accent? you describe as "clarity" and 'nice to have it'. Everybody else has heard it from degenerate scum people like thatcher and churchill etc All the trolls/orcs etc in the lord of the rings films have 'english' accents.

[@peterrichards931]

Now be 'ya sum fine British boyz and play nicely...we haz ourselfes enuf problems with the wretch'd scum dat be invadin' our fine European culture t'day, we does...now stand prowd, and werk yer problems owt later...

[@ianmangham4570]

1:22 Could not be farther from the Truth ,Carson was a nasty drunk 😅

[@oRealAlieNo]

Plus the cocaine

[@Russellye5man1]

I never understand Carson's populatity. Tedious stuff.

[@RIUUI007]

To each his own. I prefer this over Kimmel/Fallon/Ferguson.

[@Russellye5man1]

@@RIUUI007 to each his own. I'm not comparing him to anyone else, nor am I elevating anyone else. Just Carson himself, I never understood the popularity.

[@TheCimmerian6]

@@Russellye5man1. How old are you?

[@randolphpinkle4482]

Damn, that was a drag. Old-fashioned and dated

[@susanellis8067]

How??

[@johnnybravado7141]

like you could do better. Get a clue.👎

[@MP-wt9kz]

It was refreshing for me.