Sean Connery

Apex — Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

27,440 feet (The Death Zone)

5th highest of 108

A supporting turn that revived the biggest franchise in cinema, at fifty-nine. Bond is the larger career; this is the higher moment.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Film	Year	Elevation
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ▲ apex	1989	23,938 ft
Thunderball	1965	23,610 ft
Diamonds Are Forever	1971	23,439 ft
You Only Live Twice	1967	23,406 ft
The Hunt for Red October	1990	23,161 ft
Never Say Never Again	1983	23,056 ft
The Untouchables	1987	23,034 ft
The Name of the Rose	1986	22,936 ft
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	2003	22,843 ft
The Rock	1996	22,796 ft
Rising Sun	1993	22,552 ft
First Knight	1995	22,517 ft
Outland	1981	22,505 ft
Finding Forrester	2000	22,457 ft
The Hill	1965	22,441 ft
The Russia House	1990	22,408 ft
The First Great Train Robbery	1978	22,404 ft
Just Cause	1995	22,398 ft
The Anderson Tapes	1971	22,388 ft
The Presidio	1988	22,384 ft
Medicine Man	1992	22,381 ft
Robin and Marian	1976	22,357 ft
The Man Who Would Be King	1975	22,349 ft
Family Business	1989	22,339 ft
The Molly Maguires	1970	22,307 ft
The Wind and the Lion	1975	22,299 ft
The Offence	1973	22,297 ft
Meteor	1979	22,275 ft
Shalako	1968	22,252 ft
Zardoz	1974	22,251 ft
Wrong Is Right	1982	22,217 ft
Cuba	1979	22,197 ft
DragonHeart	1996	22,163 ft
Entrapment	1999	22,143 ft
Ransom	1974	22,129 ft
Highlander II: The Quickening	1991	21,959 ft
The Red Tent	1969	21,939 ft
A Good Man in Africa	1994	21,877 ft
A Bridge Too Far	1977	21,820 ft
Playing by Heart	1998	21,803 ft
The Avengers	1998	21,788 ft
Murder on the Orient Express	1974	21,757 ft
Highlander	1986	21,730 ft
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	1984	21,704 ft
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	1991	21,597 ft
Time Bandits	1981	21,585 ft