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James Bond's Ian Fleming and Sean Connery traded insults, actor had last laugh
All were approved by James Bond creator Ian Fleming to play the role of his secret agent. Producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, meanwhile, actually lined up Cary Grant to launch the 007 franchise.
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Bond legend Roger Moore's toughest sex scene 'All the blood rushed downwards'
A young Jane Seymour was making her big screen breakthrough as Solitaire, opposite the eyebrow-arching icon in 1973's Live And Let Die. Moonraker was the most expensive James Bond film ever ...
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Find out the titles, ratings, summaries and cast of the seven films where Sean Connery played the iconic spy role. The list includes Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again.
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Connery originated the role in Dr.
- Who Was Sean Connery?
- Early Life
- Young Drifter and Bodybuilder
- Start of Acting Career
- Big Break as James Bond
- Personal Conflict and Controversy
- Bored of Being 007
- Prestigious Projects and Oscar Win
- 'Entrapment' and Knighthood
- Death
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In the 1950s, Sean Connery was cast in numerous U.K. films and television programs. In the early '60s, he landed the lead role of James Bond in Dr. No, continuing the role in followups like Goldfinger and Thunderball while gaining massive popularity. He worked regularly in film thereafter, and in 1988 won an Academy Award in the category of support...
Connery was born Thomas Sean Connery on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland. The son of Joe, a truck driver, and Euphamia, a laundress, Connery had a modest upbringing in a neighborhood known as "the street of a thousand smells" for the stench of the local rubber mill and several breweries that filled the air. His home was a two-room flat ...
At the age of 13, Connery quit school to work full time at the local dairy. Three years later, he joined the Royal Navy. He received two tattoos on his arm, reading: "MUM AND DAD" and "SCOTLAND FOREVER." Unfortunately, the artwork lasted longer than his naval career. Though he signed up for a seven-year stint, he was released from service after thr...
One rehearsal was all it took: "I decided then and there to make acting my career." He chose the stage name Sean Connery because Sean, besides being his middle name, reminded him of his favorite movie hero, Shane, as played by Alan Ladd. "It seemed to go more with my image than Tom or Tommy," he recalled. "Sean Connery" was thus listed as a chorus ...
Connery liked the reputation of being a rugged ladies' man. But that changed in August 1957 when, while filming a TV show for Britain's ATV Playhouse, he met a beautiful blond Australian actress named Diane Cilento. She was married at the time, but Connery's attraction to her was undeniable. At first Cilento felt nothing for her cast mate except fr...
His acting career now cemented, Connery decided it was time to settle his personal affairs as well. Diane was now divorced, and the pair wed secretly at the Rock of Gibraltar in November 1962 while Connery was filming From Russia With Love. They honeymooned briefly in Spain before the actor returned to the States for a flood of publicity. Connery t...
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 Bon...
After Bond, Connery continued to work regularly—Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Robin and Marian (1976), with Audrey Hepburn, The Great Train Robbery (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986) and The Name of the Rose (1986), winning a British Film Academy award for the latter project, which was based on t...
Connery then played a cat burglar in the love story/thriller Entrapment (1999), which he also produced. The project co-starred young actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, and controversy was generated by the 40-year age difference between the stars. In 2000, Connery had a starring role in the drama Finding Forrester, followed by 2003's The League of Extrao...
Connery passed away in his sleep while in the Bahamas on October 31, 2020. According to the death certificate, he died from pneumonia, old age and atrial fibrillation.
Learn about the life and career of Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who became a global icon as James Bond. Find out how he started as a bodybuilder, joined the navy, starred in other films and won an Oscar.
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Oct 31, 2020 · Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90. He was the first to bring James Bond to the big screen and played the role seven times.
IMDb profile of Sean Connery, the original James Bond actor and Oscar winner. Learn about his life, career, roles, family and death.
Sean Connery in a now iconic promotional still from Goldfinger. Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent James Bond. A Scottish amateur bodybuilder, he had come to the attention of the Bond film producers after several appearances in British films from the late 1950s. [5]
