Sean Bean owns the sword he used in iconic TV series Sharpe – which actually saw battle in the Napoleonic Wars. The ...

Since Sharpe's Eagle introduced the "tall, black-haired lieutenant with the slung rifle and the scar" in 1981, Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Napoleonic Wars-era novels have invariably ended with the ...

I first encountered the steely gaze and weary scowl of Sean Bean when he played the roguish, dashing Richard Sharpe — the protagonist of a series of nearly two dozen novels by Bernard Cornwell, a ...

The actor, 66, has become one of the UK's most successful actors at home and abroad in film and TV, starring in huge TV ...