Sean Connery

Apex — Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

27,220 feet (The Death Zone)

10th highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging Thunderball.

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

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	Diamonds Are Forever ▲ apex	1971	27,989 ft
	Thunderball	1965	27,460 ft
	You Only Live Twice	1967	27,230 ft
	The Hunt for Red October	1990	26,143 ft
	The Name of the Rose	1986	25,422 ft
	Never Say Never Again	1983	25,411 ft
	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	2003	24,674 ft
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	24,253 ft
	Rising Sun	1993	24,173 ft
	First Knight	1995	23,650 ft
	The Rock	1996	23,585 ft
	Outland	1981	23,426 ft
	Medicine Man	1992	23,365 ft
	The Presidio	1988	23,248 ft
	The Hill	1965	23,122 ft
	The Wind and the Lion	1975	23,061 ft
	The First Great Train Robbery	1978	23,047 ft
	The Anderson Tapes	1971	23,025 ft
	The Offence	1973	22,935 ft
	Zardoz	1974	22,907 ft
	Robin and Marian	1976	22,888 ft
	The Molly Maguires	1970	22,836 ft
	Meteor	1979	22,705 ft
	Shalako	1968	22,611 ft
	The Man Who Would Be King	1975	22,574 ft
	The Untouchables	1987	22,566 ft
	The Russia House	1990	22,499 ft
	Finding Forrester	2000	22,474 ft
	Ransom	1974	22,461 ft
	Wrong Is Right	1982	22,434 ft
	Cuba	1979	22,393 ft
	Entrapment	1999	22,335 ft
	Just Cause	1995	22,187 ft
	DragonHeart	1996	22,176 ft
	Family Business	1989	22,098 ft
	Highlander II: The Quickening	1991	21,694 ft
	The Red Tent	1969	21,532 ft
	A Good Man in Africa	1994	21,347 ft
	The Avengers	1998	20,908 ft
	A Bridge Too Far	1977	20,822 ft
	Highlander	1986	20,812 ft
	Playing by Heart	1998	20,772 ft
	Murder on the Orient Express	1974	20,605 ft
	Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	1984	20,588 ft
	Time Bandits	1981	20,179 ft
	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	2012	20,142 ft
	Everything or Nothing	2012	20,140 ft
	Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford	2023	20,140 ft
	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	1991	20,139 ft
	HyperNormalisation	2016	20,139 ft