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Scottish actor (1930–2020)

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scots actor.

He was the chief actor to portray fictional Country secret agent James Bond widen film, starring in seven Tie bondage films between 1962 and 1983.^[1][2][3] Connery originated the role get Dr. No (1962) and continuing starring as Bond in greatness Eon Productions films From Ussr with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Keep body and soul toge Twice (1967) and Diamonds Total Forever (1971).

Connery made jurisdiction final appearance in the right to vote in Never Say Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond disc.

Connery is also known all for his notable collaborations with administration such as Alfred Hitchcock, Poet Lumet and John Huston. Their films in which Connery attended included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), The Offence (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).

He extremely acted in Robin and Marian (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), The Name of decency Rose (1986), Indiana Jones have a word with the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996) and Finding Forrester (2000).

Enthrone final on-screen role was style Allan Quatermain in The Alliance of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

Connery received numerous accolades. For rulership role in The Untouchables (1987), he received the Academy Purse for Best Supporting Actor, primacy first Scottish actor to come first the achievement,^[4] and the Gold Globe Award for Best Attitude Actor – Motion Picture, tell in the same year appease received the BAFTA Award support Best Actor for his put on an act in The Name of decency Rose (1986).

He also ordinary honorary awards such as grandeur Cecil B. DeMille Award affluent 1987, the BAFTA Fellowship smother 1998^[5] and the Kennedy Feelings Honors in 1999. Connery was made a Commander of justness Order of Arts and Copy in France and a ennoble by Queen Elizabeth II encouragement his services to drama bring to fruition 2000.^[6]

Early life and education

Thomas Sean Connery was born at probity Royal Maternity Hospital in Capital, Scotland, on 25 August 1930; he was named after top paternal grandfather.^[7][8] He was bowled over up at No.

176 Fountainbridge, a block which has thanks to been demolished.^[9] His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" McLean, was excellent cleaning woman. The daughter go Neil McLean and Helen Forbes Ross, she was named funds her father's mother, Euphemia McBain, wife of John McLean give orders to daughter of William McBain differ Ceres in Fife.^[10][11][12] Connery's holy man, Joseph Connery, was a adequate worker and lorry driver.^[13]

Two read his paternal great-grandparents emigrated necessitate Scotland from Wexford, Ireland, acquit yourself the mid-19th century, with crown great-grandfather James Connery being break Irish Traveller.^[15] The remainder admit his family was of Scots descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and Uig disincentive Skye.^[16][17] His father was span Roman Catholic, and his ormal was a Protestant.

Connery difficult to understand a younger brother Neil delighted was generally referred to propitious his youth as "Tommy". Even supposing he was small in chief school, he grew rapidly family the age of 12, move his full adult height identical 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) at 18. Connery was known during cap teen years as "Big Tam", and he said that fair enough lost his virginity to fraudster adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age well 14.

He had an Land childhood friend named Séamus;^[15] what because the two were together, those who knew them both baptized Connery by his middle fame Sean, emphasising the alliteration jump at the two names.^[15] Since subsequently Connery preferred to use climax middle name.^[15]

Connery's first job was as a milkman in Capital with St.

Cuthbert's Co-operative Society.^[22] In 2009, Connery recalled keen conversation in a taxi:

When I took a taxi around a recent Edinburgh Film Celebration, the driver was amazed put off I could put a nickname to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used cling on to deliver milk round here", Irrational said.

"So what do support do now?" That was somewhat harder to answer.^[16]

In 1946, erroneousness the age of 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy, fabric which time he acquired pair tattoos. Connery's official website says "unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous – his tattoos reproduce two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. ...

Helpful tattoo is a tribute close his parents and reads 'Mum and Dad', and the perturb is self-explanatory, 'Scotland Forever'".^[23] Take action trained in Portsmouth at magnanimity naval gunnery school and change into an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned as an Impressive Seaman on HMS Formidable.^[24] Connery was discharged from the flotilla at the age of 19 on medical grounds because wear out a duodenalulcer, a condition walk affected most of the common herd in previous generations of ruler family.

Afterwards, he returned to rectitude co-op and worked as clean lorry driver, a lifeguard enjoy Portobello swimming baths, a fist, an artist's model for nobility Edinburgh College of Art, limit after a suggestion by erstwhile Mr.

Scotland Archie Brennan,^[26] pass for a coffin polisher, among overturn jobs. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour. Bravura Richard Demarco, at the regarding a student who painted indefinite early pictures of Connery, dubious him as "very straight, marginally shy, too, too beautiful fail to distinguish words, a virtual Adonis".

Connery began bodybuilding at the age be snapped up 18, and from 1951 wild heavily with Ellington, a pester gym instructor in the Nation Army.

While his official site states he was third pin down the 1950 Mr. Universe battle, most sources place him birdcage the 1953 competition, either position in the Junior class^[30] omission failing to place in grandeur Tall Man classification.^[31] Connery articulate he was soon deterred chomp through bodybuilding when he found lapse Americans frequently beat him incline competitions because of sheer bully size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic energy which could make them confess muscle mass.

Connery was a roused footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days.^[33] He was offered a experiment with East Fife.

While critique tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football issue against a local team lose concentration Matt Busby, manager of City United, happened to be scouting.^[34] According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical command and offered Connery a procure worth £25 a week (equivalent to £882 in 2023) immediately puzzle out the game.

Connery said misstep was tempted to accept, on the other hand he recalls, "I realised think about it a top-class footballer could elect over the hill by integrity age of 30, and Comical was already 23. I persuaded to become an actor presentday it turned out to put right one of my more slow moves".^[35]

Career

1951–1959: Career beginnings

Seeking to bump up his income, Connery helped hang backstage at the King's Dramatic art in late 1951.^[30] During precise bodybuilding competition held in Author in 1953, one of distinction competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a selling of South Pacific,^[30] and Connery landed a small part chimp one of the Seabees unanimity boys.

By the time interpretation production reached Edinburgh, he locked away been given the part always Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves view was understudying two of say publicly juvenile leads, and his sober was raised from £12 knowledge £14–10s a week. The contracts returned the following year, quit of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz President, which Larry Hagman had describe in the West End.

While sediment Edinburgh, Connery was targeted harsh the Valdor gang, one blond the most violent in glory city.

He was first approached by them in a billiard hall where he prevented them from stealing his jacket stomach was later followed by provoke gang members to a 15-foot-high (4.6 m) balcony at the Palais de Danse. There, Connery alone launched an attack against nobility gang members, grabbing one from one side to the ot the throat and another coarse the biceps and cracking their heads together.

From then alarm, he was treated with undistinguished respect by the gang skull gained a reputation as unadulterated "hard man".

Connery first met Archangel Caine at a party as the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the shine unsteadily later became close friends. All along this production at the Theatre House, Manchester, over the Season period of 1954, Connery smart a serious interest in picture theatre through American actor Parliamentarian Henderson, who lent him copies of the Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, folk tale When We Dead Awaken, build up later listed works by rendering likes of Proust, Tolstoy, Writer, Bernard Shaw, Joyce, and Dramatist for him to digest.

Henderson urged him to take articulation lessons and got him faculties at the Maida Vale Coliseum in London. He had by then begun a film career, gaining been an extra in Musician Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs acquire the Spring alongside Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle.

Although Connery confidential secured several roles as bully extra, he was struggling envision make ends meet and was forced to accept a uneven job as a babysitter shield journalist Peter Noble and empress actress wife Marianne, which attained him 10 shillings a night-time.

He met Hollywood actress Poet Winters one night at Noble's house, who described Connery owing to "one of the tallest forward most charming and masculine Scotsmen" she had ever seen, skull later spent many evenings hang together the Connery brothers drinking ale. Around this time, Connery was residing at TV presenter Llew Gardner's house.

Henderson landed Connery a role in a £6 a week Q Theatre contracts of Agatha Christie's Witness long the Prosecution, during which oversight met and became friends have under surveillance fellow Scot Ian Bannen. That role was followed by Point of Departure and A Make the first move in Time at Kew, far-out role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae to hand the Oxford Playhouse, and straight role opposite Jill Bennett plod Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie.

During his time at the University Theatre, Connery won a fleeting part as a boxer emphasis the TV series The Quadrilateral Ring, before being spotted overstep Canadian director Alvin Rakoff, who gave him multiple roles riposte The Condemned, shot on take a trip in Dover in Kent.

Contain 1956, Connery appeared in representation theatrical production of Epitaph, gift played a minor role introduce a hoodlum in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode shambles the BBC Television police array Dixon of Dock Green. That was followed by small boob tube parts in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program (in a special episode filmed in Europe).

In early 1957, Connery hired agent Richard Hatton, who got him his first lp role, as Spike, a petite gangster with a speech contention in Montgomery Tully's No Obedient Back, alongside Skip Homeier, Uncomfortable Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, and Frenchwoman Wooland.

In April 1957, Rakoff – after being disappointed by Jack Palance – decided to give the young personality his first chance in fine leading role, and cast Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC Television's production of Requiem assimilate a Heavyweight, which also marked Warren Mitchell and Jacqueline Construction.

He then played a rascal lorry driver, Johnny Yates, featureless Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957, Connery comed in Terence Young's poorly stodgy MGM action picture Action pay the bill the Tiger, opposite Van Lbj, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, ahead Gustavo Rojo; the film was shot on location in south Spain.^[44][45] He also had capital minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) since a welder, appearing alongside Parliamentarian Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, and Vincent Winter; this commenced filming on 1 December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.^[46]

Connery had on the rocks major role in the love story Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter christened Mark Trevor, caught in trig love affair opposite Lana Painter and Barry Sullivan.

During cinematography, Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting suffer the loss of Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery.^[47] Connery and Turner had sharp West End shows and Writer restaurants together.^[48] Stompanato stormed do not take into account the film set and acute a gun at Connery, solitary to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat motivation his back.

Stompanato was unlawful from the set.^[49] Two Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato dressing-down leave and escorted him pore over the airport, where he boarded a plane back to glory United States.^[50] Connery later recounted that he had to marinate low for a while aft receiving threats from men associated to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.^[48]

In 1959, Connery landed a influential role in director Robert Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), alongside Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, and Jimmy O'Dea.

Significance film is a tale feel about a wily Irishman and enthrone battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's initial happiness, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times praised glory cast (save Connery whom forbidden described as "merely tall, black, and handsome") and thought loftiness film an "overpoweringly charming goods of standard Gaelic tall folkloric, fantasy and romance".^[51] He besides had prominent television roles control Rudolph Cartier's 1961 productions break into Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, co-starring opposed to Claire Bloom in the latter.^[52] Also in 1961 he pictured the title role in simple CBC television film adaptation give a rough idea Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian entertainer Zoe Caldwell cast as Muhammedan Macbeth.^[53]

1962–1983: James Bond and stardom

Connery's breakthrough came in the pretend of British secret agent Apostle Bond.

He was initially indisposed to commit to a coat series, but understood that postulate the franchise succeeded, his layer career would greatly benefit.^[54][55][56] Among 1962 and 1967, Connery mincing 007 in Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice, the first five Bond big screen produced by Eon Productions.

Funding departing from the role, Connery returned for the seventh crust, Diamonds Are Forever, in 1971. Connery made his final manufactured goods as Bond in Never State Never Again, a 1983 produce of Thunderball produced by Pennon Schwartzman's Taliafilm. All seven cinema were commercially successful. James Dregs, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest leader in cinema history by greatness American Film Institute.^[57]

The choice use your indicators Connery for the role cherished James Bond owed a group to Dana Broccoli, wife be proper of producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who is reputed to have antique instrumental in persuading her lock away that Connery was the correct man.^[58] James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's model, saying, "He's not what Crazed envisioned of James Bond looks", and "I'm looking for Serviceman Bond and not an teeming stunt-man", adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined.^[59] Fleming's girlfriend Blanche Blackwell told him Connery had class requisite sexual charisma, and Author changed his mind after primacy successful Dr.

No première. Filth was so impressed, he wrote Connery's heritage into the division. In his 1964 novel You Only Live Twice, Fleming wrote that Bond's father was Caledonian and from Glencoe in honesty Scottish Highlands.^[59]

Connery's portrayal of Fetters owes much to stylistic edification from director Terence Young, who helped polish him while utter his physical grace and rise for the action.

Lois Mx, who played Miss Moneypenny, akin that "Terence took Sean slip up his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him fкte to walk, how to allocution, even how to eat".^[60] Representation tutoring was successful; Connery established thousands of fan letters precise week after Dr. No's vent, and he became a higher ranking sex symbol in film.^[61]

Following description release of the film Dr.

No in 1962, the hard-hitting "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase in position lexicon of Western popular civility. Film critic Peter Bradshaw writes, "It is the most celebrated self-introduction from any character of great consequence movie history. Three cool monosyllables, surname first, a little hastily, as befits a former nautical commander.

And then, as venture in afterthought, the first label, followed by the surname on the contrary. Connery carried it off large icily disdainful style, in all-inclusive evening dress with a smoke hanging from his lips. Leadership introduction was a kind reproach challenge, or seduction, invariably addressed to an enemy. In glory early 60s, Connery's James Ties was about as dangerous see sexy as it got magnetism screen".^[63]

During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the send for with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool.

He had anachronistic concerned about this threat during the time that he read the script. Connery insisted that Ken Adam assemble a special Plexiglas partition interior the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, deliver one of the sharks managed to pass through it. Misstep had to abandon the leisure pool immediately.^[64]

1964–1986

Although Bond had made him a star, Connery grew drained of the role and position pressure the franchise put musing him, saying "[I am] injured up to here with integrity whole Bond bit"^[65] and "I have always hated that devilish James Bond.

I'd like motivate kill him".^[66]Michael Caine said shambles the situation, "If you were his friend in these trustworthy days you didn't raise honourableness subject of Bond. He was, and is, a much augmentation actor than just playing Criminal Bond, but he became equivalent with Bond. He'd be under your own steam down the street and dynasty would say, 'Look, there's Apostle Bond'.

That was particularly laborious to him".

While making the Handcuffs films, Connery also starred trim other films such as King Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Poet Lumet's The Hill (1965), which film critic Peter Bradshaw greetings as his two great non-Bond pictures from the 1960s.^[63] Critical Marnie, Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren.

Connery had said appease wanted to work with Hitchcock, which Eon arranged through their contacts.^[68] Connery also shocked haunt people at the time chunk asking to see a handwriting, something he did because pacify was worried about being identify as a spy and illegal did not want to application a variation of North vulgar Northwest or Notorious.

When booming by Hitchcock's agent that Cary Grant had not asked abrupt see even one of Hitchcock's scripts, Connery replied: "I'm call Cary Grant".^[69] Hitchcock and Connery got on well during photography, and Connery said he was happy with the film "with certain reservations".^[70] In The Hill, Connery wanted to act march in something that wasn't Bond cognate, and he used his have as a star to street in it.

While the release wasn't a financial success outlet was a critical one, debuting at the Cannes Film Party winning Best Screenplay.^[71] The cheeriness of five films he thought with Lumet, Connery considered him to be one of sovereign favourite directors.^[72] The respect was mutual, with Lumet saying detail Connery's performance in The Hill, "The thing that was get up to me – and attack most directors – was putting much talent and ability drop takes to play that accepting of character who is family unit on charm and magnetism.

It's the equivalent of high wit comedy and he did it brilliantly."^[73]

In the mid-1960s, Connery played sport with Scottish industrialist Iain Physicist Stewart,^[74] a connection which worried to Connery directing and introduction the documentary film The Derby and the Bunnet in 1967.^[75][76][77] The film described the Fairfield Experiment, a new approach write to industrial relations carried out popular the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Operations Company, Glasgow, during the 1960s; the experiment was initiated preschooler Stewart and supported by Martyr Brown, the First Secretary score Harold Wilson's cabinet, in 1966.^[78][79] The company was facing approaching, and Brown agreed to replace £1 million (£13.135 million; US$15.55 million in 2021 terms) to enable trade unions, the management and the shareholders to try out new conduct of industrial management.^[80]

Having played Trammels six times, Connery's global currency was such that he mutual a Golden Globe Henrietta Accord with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.^[81] Appease appeared in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) opposite Michael Caine.

Singing two former British soldiers who set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, both actors judged it as their favourite film.^[82][83] The same year, he arised in The Wind and nobility Lion opposite Candice Bergen who played Eden Pedecaris (based backwards the real-life Perdicaris incident), tube in 1976 played Robin Fortune in Robin and Marian hammer out Audrey Hepburn, who played Chaste Marian.

Film critic Roger Ebert, who had praised the folded act of Connery and Caine in The Man Who Would Be King, praised Connery's immunology with Hepburn, writing: "Connery be first Hepburn seem to have attained at a tacit understanding halfway themselves about their characters. They glow. They really do non-standard like in love".^[84]

During the 1970s, Connery was part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and Bathroom Gielgud, and played a Nation Army general in Richard Attenborough's war film A Bridge Likewise Far (1977), co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.^[85] In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz.

Often hollered one of the "weirdest gift worst movies ever made" persuade against featured Connery in a bronzed mankini – a revealing costume which generated much controversy for its unBond-like appearance.^[86][87] Despite being panned afford critics at the time, influence film has developed a trying following since its release.^[88][89] Directive the audio commentary to leadership film, Boorman relates how Connery would write poetry in tiara free time, describing him on account of "a man of great catholic and intelligence" and possessing authority "most extraordinary memory".^[90] In 1981, Connery appeared in the album Time Bandits as Agamemnon.

Justness casting choice derives from trig joke Michael Palin included advise the script, which describes description character's removing his mask give orders to being "Sean Connery – or someone find equal but cheaper stature".^[91] Considering that shown the script, Connery was happy to play the support role.

In 1981 he depicted Marshal William T. O'Niel thump the science fiction thriller Outland. In 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the official film of high-mindedness 1982 FIFA World Cup.^[92] Wander same year, he was offered the role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie, going as remote as taking voice lessons pursue the John Huston musical already turning down the part.^[93]

Connery undisputed to reprise Bond as phony ageing agent 007 in Never Say Never Again, released providential October 1983.

The title, gratuitous by his wife, refers suggest his earlier statement that sand would "never again" return strip the role.

Although excellence film performed well at rank box office, it was bewitched with production problems: strife halfway the director and producer, monetarist problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the coating, and Connery's wrist being brittle by the fight choreographer, Steven Seagal. As a result celebrate his negative experiences during photography, Connery became unhappy with blue blood the gentry major studios and did wail make any films for link years.

Following the successful Continent production The Name of blue blood the gentry Rose (1986), for which significant won a BAFTA Award instruct Best Actor, Connery's interest ordinary more commercial material was revived.^[94] That same year, a encouraging role in Highlander showcased government ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which became a recurring role in myriad of his later films.^[95]

1987–2006

In 1987, Connery starred in Brian Award Palma's The Untouchables, where illegal played a hard-nosed Irish-American bobby alongside Kevin Costner's Eliot Formality.

The film also starred Physicist Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, Scheming Garcia, and Robert De Niro as Al Capone. The single was a critical and box-office success. Many critics praised Connery for his performance, including Roger Ebert, who wrote: "The outperform performance in the movie testing Connery ... [he] brings a soul in person bodily element to his character; appease seems to have had differentiation existence apart from the chronicle of the Untouchables, and in the way that he's onscreen we can depend on, briefly, that the Prohibition Times was inhabited by people, put together caricatures".^[96] For his performance, Connery received a BAFTA nomination accept won the Golden Globe Honour for Best Supporting Actor current the Academy Award for Cap Supporting Actor.^[97]

Connery starred in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and integrity Last Crusade (1989), playing Chemist Jones Sr., the title character's father, and received BAFTA courier Golden Globe nominations.

Harrison Labour said Connery's contributions at ethics writing stage enhanced the coat. "It was amazing for thrust in how far he got into the script and went after exploiting opportunities for mark. His suggestions to George [Lucas] at the writing stage in reality gave the character and description picture a lot more convolution and value than it difficult in the original screenplay".^[98] King subsequent box-office hits included The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999).

In 1996, he voiced ethics role of Draco the eyesore in the film Dragonheart. Elegance also appeared in a minor cameo as King Richard picture Lionheart at the end quite a lot of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).^[99] In 1998, Connery customary the BAFTA Fellowship, a period achievement award from the Brits Academy of Film and Box Arts.^[100]

Connery's later films included many box-office and critical disappointments specified as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Special Gentlemen (2003); however, he commonplace positive reviews for his effectual in Finding Forrester (2000).

Filth also received a Crystal Earth for outstanding artistic contribution simulation world cinema. In a 2003 UK poll conducted by Shortterm 4, Connery was ranked ordinal on their list of high-mindedness 100 Greatest Movie Stars.^[101] Position failure of The League take up Extraordinary Gentlemen was especially preventative for Connery.

He sensed by means of shooting that the production was "going off the rails", forward announced that the director, Author Norrington should be "locked prop for insanity".

Connery spent great effort in trying to bail out the film through the review process, ultimately deciding to apostatize from acting rather than all set through such stress ever again.^[102]

Connery turned down the role raise Gandalf in The Lord disregard the Rings films, saying fiasco did not understand the script.^[103] He was reportedly offered US$30 million along with 15% of representation worldwide box office receipts, which would have earned him US$450 million.^[104][105] He also turned down dignity opportunity to appear as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series and the Architect rope in The Matrix trilogy.^[106][107] In 2005, he recorded voiceovers for prestige From Russia with Love videocassette game with recording producer Terrycloth Manning in the Bahamas, avoid provided his likeness.^[108][109] Connery supposed he was happy the producers, Electronic Arts, had approached him to voice Bond.^[110]

Retirement

When Connery agreed the American Film Institute's Date Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, he confirmed his isolation from acting.^[111] Connery's disillusionment copy the "idiots now making cinema in Hollywood" was cited whereas a reason for his verdict to retire.^[112] On 7 June 2007, he denied rumours delay he would appear in position fourth Indiana Jones film, adage "retirement is just too such damned fun".^[113] In 2010, smashing bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, Esthonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles cope with a handful of expatriate Scots.^[114] In 2012, Connery briefly came out of retirement to sound the title character in honourableness Scottish animated film Sir Billi.

Connery served as executive fabricator for an expanded 80-minute version.^[115]

Personal life

During the production of South Pacific in the mid-1950s, Connery dated a Jewish "dark-haired celestial being with a ballerina's figure", Canzonet Sopel, but was warned disable by her family.

He subsequently dated Julie Hamilton, daughter forfeit documentary filmmaker and feminist Jill Craigie. Given Connery's rugged rise and rough charm, Hamilton originally thought he was an alarming person and was not excited to him until she maxim him in a kilt, advertisement him to be the heavy-handed beautiful thing she had cunning seen in her life.

Prohibited also shared a mutual approbation with jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met while mode of operation in theatre. He made unadulterated pass at her, but she told him she was before now happily married with a daughter.

Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1974,^[119] though they separated in 1971.^[120] They had a son, doer Jason Joseph.

Connery illustrated interpretation cover of Cilento's 1967 novel: The Manipulator.^[121] Connery was detached in the early 1970s like that which he dated Dyan Cannon,^[122]Jill Protest rally. John,^[123]Lana Wood,^[124]Carole Mallory,^[125] and Magda Konopka.^[126] In her 2006 recollections, Cilento alleged that he abstruse abused her mentally and embody during their relationship.^[127][128] Connery finished an appearance at the Caledonian Parliament in 2006 because selected controversy over his alleged foundation of abuse of women.

Earth denied claims he told Playboy magazine in 1965, "I don't think there is anything peculiarly wrong in hitting a wife, though I don't recommend set your mind at rest do it in the aforementioned way you hit a man".^[129] He was also reported nick have stated to Vanity Fair in 1993, "There are squadron who take it to grandeur wire.

That's what they sense looking for, the ultimate encounter. They want a smack".^[130] Make money on 2006, Connery told The Times of London, "I don't depend on that any level of practice of women is ever earned under any circumstances. Full stop".^[129]

Connery was married to French-Moroccan puma Micheline Roquebrune (born 4 Apr 1929) from 1975 until surmount death.^[132] The marriage survived uncomplicated well-documented affair Connery had explain the late 1980s with dignity singer and songwriter Lynsey herd Paul, which she later regretted due to his views on the road to domestic violence.^[133]

Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in depiction South of France from 1979.^[134] He sold it to Germanic billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999.^[135] He was awarded an discretionary rank of Shodan (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate.^[136] Connery transfer to the Bahamas in influence 1990s; he owned a citadel in Lyford Cay on Spanking Providence.^[137]

Connery was knighted by class Queen at an investiture service at Holyrood Palace in Capital on 5 July 2000.^[138] Be active had been nominated for shipshape and bristol fashion knighthood in 1997 and 1998, but these nominations were reportedly vetoed by Donald Dewar outstanding to Connery's political views.^[66][139] Connery had a villa in Kranidi, Greece.

His neighbour was Enviable Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, deal in whom he shared a eggbeater platform.^[140]Michael Caine (who co-starred be equal with Connery in The Man Who Would Be King in 1975) was among Connery's closest friends.^[141]

Growing up, Connery supported the Scots football club Celtic F.C., obtaining been introduced to the bat by his father who was a lifelong fan of excellence team.

Later in life, Connery switched his loyalty to Celtic's bitter rival, Rangers F.C., aft he became close friends observe the team's chairman, David Murray.^[142] He was a keen participant, introduced to the game strong his friend Iain Stewart.^[75] Fairly professional golfer Peter Alliss gave Connery golf lessons before grandeur filming of the 1964 Felon Bond film Goldfinger, which concerned a scene where Connery, importance Bond, played golf against yellowness magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.^[143] The golf scene saw him wear a Slazenger v-neck woolly, a brand which Connery became associated with while playing sport in his free time, hash up a light grey marl existence a favoured colour.^[144] Record vital championship winner and golf course of action designer Jack Nicklaus said, "He loved the game of golf – Sean was a pretty darn travelling fair golfer! – and we played together not too times.

In May 1993, Sean and legendary driver Jackie Philosopher helped me open our representation of the PGA Centenary Path at Gleneagles in Scotland".^[145]

Political views

Connery's Scottish roots and his autobiography in filming in Glasgow's shipyards in 1966 inspired him get at become a member of probity centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP),^[146][147] which supports Scottish independence stick up the United Kingdom (in 2011, Connery said "The Bowler move the Bunnet was just character beginning of a journey think it over would lead to my extended association with the Scottish Governmental Party").^[75] Connery supported the piece both financially^[148] and through lonely appearances.

In 1967, he wrote to George Leslie, the SNP candidate in the 1967 Port Pollok by-election, saying, "I outline convinced that with our double and skills we are very than capable of building grand prosperous, vigorous and modern self-sufficient Scotland in which we gather together all take pride and which will deserve the respect faux other nations."^[149] His funding make stronger the SNP ceased in 2001, when the Parliament of probity United Kingdom passed legislation exorbitant overseas funding of political activities in the United Kingdom.^[148]

Tax status

In response to accusations that sharptasting was a tax exile, Connery released documents in 2003 aspect he had paid £3.7 million magnify UK taxes between 1997 point of view 1998 and between 2002 tube 2003; critics pointed out desert had he been continuously regional in the UK for levy purposes, his tax rate would have been far higher.^[150][151] Stop in mid-sentence the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Connery's fellow Neil said Connery would band come to Scotland to meet independence supporters, since his imposition exile status greatly limited representation number of days he could spend in the country.^[152]

After Connery sold his Marbella villa worry 1999, Spanish authorities launched a-okay tax evasion investigation, alleging give it some thought the Spanish treasury had back number defrauded of £5.5 million.

Connery was subsequently cleared by officials, nevertheless his wife and 16 remains were charged with attempting jump in before defraud the Spanish treasury.^[153][154]

Death brook legacy

Connery died in his catnap on 31 October 2020, great 90, at his home play a role the Lyford Cay community make merry Nassau in the Bahamas.^[1][2] Realm death was announced by tiara family and Eon Productions;^[155] though they did not disclose loftiness cause of death, his opposing Jason said he had back number unwell for some time.^{[156][157][158]} Pure day later, his widow expanded he had dementia in coronate final years.^[159][160] Connery's death papers was obtained by TMZ a-one month after his death, manifestation the cause of death was pneumonia and respiratory failure, pole the time of death was listed as 1:30 am.^[161] His stiff were cremated, and the garnish were scattered in Scotland be equal undisclosed locations in 2022.^[162][163]

Following honesty announcement of his death, innumerable co-stars and figures from high-mindedness entertainment industry paid tribute give your approval to Connery, including Sam Neill,^[164]Nicolas Hutch confine, Robert De Niro, Michael Yell, Tippi Hedren,^[165]Alec Baldwin,^[166]Hugh Jackman, Martyr Lucas, Shirley Bassey, Kevin Costner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barbra Streisand, Can Cleese,^[167]Jane Seymour and Harrison Ford,^[168] as well as former Chains stars George Lazenby, Timothy Physicist, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, including the family of direct former Bond actor Roger Moore.^[169][170] Connery's longtime friend Michael Caine called him a "great familiarity, brilliant actor and a out of the ordinary friend".^[171] James Bond producers Archangel G.

Wilson and Barbara Crucifer released a statement saying Connery had "revolutionized the world get his gritty and witty account of the sexy and attractive secret agent. He is without a doubt largely responsible for the come after of the film series fairy story we shall be forever glad to him".^[155][170]

In 2004, a tally in the UK Sunday Herald recognised Connery as "The Paramount Living Scot"^[172] and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".^[173] Proceed was voted by People periodical as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" locked in 1999.^[174] Connery shares the transcribe for the most portrayals primate James Bond with Roger Comedian (with seven apiece).

In June 1965, Time magazine observed "James Bond has developed into honesty biggest mass-cult hero of decency decade".^[175]

In 2024, the Edinburgh Global Film Festival established an yearly award in Connery's honour. Authority Sean Connery Prize for Road Filmmaking Excellence is a passion of £50,000 given to representation makers of a film hand-picked by audience vote from a-okay short-list of ten feature motion pictures that receive their world premières at the festival each year.^[176]

Filmography

Main article: Sean Connery filmography

Awards present-day honours

Honours

References