But Connery's performance was of its time, enjoyed by millions of both sexes and gave the silver screen a 20th Century icon. Read more about the life of the Scotsman who became a global star. He was knighted by the Queen at Holyrood Palace in In August, he celebrated his 90th birthday.
Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said they were "devastated by the news" of his death. They said: "He was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words 'the name's Bond James Bond'. He is undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the film series and we shall be forever grateful to him.
Star Wars director George Lucas, who also created the Indiana Jones character, said Sir Sean "left an indelible mark in cinematic history". With an air of intelligent authority and sly sense of comedic mischief, only someone like Sean Connery could render Indiana Jones immediately into boyish regret or relief through a stern fatherly chiding or rejoiceful hug.
My thoughts are with his family. Sir Sean was a long-time supporter of Scottish independence, saying in interviews in the run-up to the referendum that he might return from his Bahamas home to live in Scotland if it voted to break away from the rest of the UK. Our nation today mourns one of her best loved sons. In , there were talks of Connery appearing in Die Another Day , but those discussions never came to fruition.
Connery helped launch James Bond from an interesting character in a novel to a global sensation. Connery's Bond is regarded as one of the best in the series because he set the standard and laid the foundation for future portrayals of the character. Though Connery has not appeared as James Bond since , his impact on the franchise will never be forgotten.
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Show Conversation Hide Conversation Sponsored Offers. Most Popular News. Most Popular Opinion. Most Popular Videos. His acting career now cemented, Connery decided it was time to settle his personal affairs as well. They honeymooned briefly in Spain before the actor returned to the States for a flood of publicity. Connery thrived on the attention and adoration: "Now, I can kill any s. But Connery had a tendency to go too far in interviews and openly advocated abusive behavior.
For example, he told a London newspaper his opinion on hitting women: "An open-handed slap is justified. So is putting your hand over her mouth. The comments came back to haunt him when, in , 10 years after his son Jason was born, he and Cilento divorced amidst a flurry of tabloid rumors that he was physically abusive. Connery denied them all, and married French-Moroccan artist Micheline Roquebrune in —again at Gibraltar. The pair met in a golf tournament in Morocco, a sport that was a shared passion.
He won the men's award; she took the women's. By this time, Connery had made a total of six Bond pictures, but the man who once reveled in notoriety now shrunk from the spotlight.
He retreated from Hollywood, moving his wife and her three children from her first marriage into mansions in England and Marbella, Spain. It would be more than a decade before he reluctantly agreed to reprise his Bond role one last time, in 's Never Say Never Again.
Despite the money, Connery was bitter and criticized Broccoli and Saltzman for stifling his talent. He donated a large portion of his earnings to the Scottish International Education Trust to help students from poor backgrounds like his own. But his critics wondered if he was motivated by generosity or politics: Connery fervently supports Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom, including backing the failed referendum to have the country leave Great Britain, and gave a great deal of his own money to the secessionist Scottish National Party.
For more than two decades, he and Micheline lived in Marbella. Connery's career continued forward with no signs of slowing down. The project co-starred young actress Catherine Zeta-Jones , and controversy was generated by the year age difference between the stars.
In , Connery had a starring role in the drama Finding Forrester , followed by 's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , a comic book adaptation in which he depicted fictional explorer Allan Quatermain.
Connery was called "the rogue with the brogue," and in , at almost 60 years of age, he was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive. In Connery released the book Being a Scot , a work which was billed as an exploration of the actor's native country and its ideologies more so than a traditional autobiography.
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