8 Actors Who Were Paid Huge Salaries For Very Little Work

Kevin Costner's strangely-accented English outlaw may be the title character and star, but one of the highlights of the entire movie comes right at the end, when screen legend Sean Connery briefly appears as Richard the Lionheart in an uncredited cameo, giving his endorsement to the wedding of Robin and Marian.

Prince of Thieves is best remembered these days for the horrendous (and Academy-Award nominated) Bryan Adams song that dominated the charts, but the movie itself was a massive commercial hit and grossed over $390m at the box office to become one of the biggest movies of 1991. For his two days on the set, two minutes of screen-time and four lines of dialogue, Connery was paid $250,000.

Although the fee is astronomical for two days work (and adjusted for inflation is well over $400,000), the Scottish icon donated the entire amount to charity. Besides such a charitable gesture, there's also something quite poetic about Sean Connery appearing in the movie to bless the wedding of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, as 15 years earlier he portrayed the character opposite Audrey Hepburn in Richard Lester's star-studded revisionist tale Robin and Marian.

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