Popular Scottish actor and the first actor to bring Ian Flemming’s British secret agent to life on the big screen, Sir Thomas Sean Connery, has passed on at the age of 90 years.
Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.
His mother, Euphamia C. Maclean, was a cleaning lady, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck driver.
Before going into acting, Sean had many different jobs, such as a milkman, lorry driver, a laborer, artist’s model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder.
He also joined the Royal Navy, but was later discharged because of medical problems.
At the age of 23, he had a choice between becoming a professional footballer or an actor, and even though he showed much promise in the sport, he chose acting and said it was one of his more intelligent moves.
Sean married actress Diane Cilento in 1962 and they had a son, Jason Connery, born on January 11, 1963.
The couple separated in February 1971 and divorced 2½ years later.
In 1975 he married Micheline Roquebrune and has three stepchildren through his marriage to Micheline.
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known for being the original actor to portray the character of James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983.
Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he proved the doubters wrong, becoming one of the most notable film actors of his generation, with a host of great movies to his name.
This arguably culminated in his greatest acclaim in 1988, when Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an Irish cop in The Untouchables (1987).
Connery has been polled as “The Greatest Living Scot” and “Scotland’s Greatest Living National Treasure”.
In 1989, he was proclaimed “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine, and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted “Sexiest Man of the Century”.
His big breakthrough came in 1962 when he landed the role of secret agent James Bond in Dr. No (1962). He played James Bond in six more films: From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983).
After and during the success of the Bond films he has maintained a successful career as an actor and has appeared in films, including The Hill (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Rock (1996), Entrapment (1999) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Culled from IDMB
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