Sean Connery 1930-2020

Sean Connery 1930- 2020

Sean Connery
(Edinburgh, 1930) British film actor who, after gaining popularity
thanks to his incarnations of the secret agent James Bond, later
demonstrated his excellent acting skills in other genres over a long
career. After serving for three years in the navy, he held various
trades and at the age of twenty he attended the Mister Universo
contest on behalf of Scotland. In 1951 he played his first, rather
minor role in the theater; After acquiring some experience, in 1954 he
began to play small roles in the cinema and other more important ones
on television, such as the boxer in the series Requiem for a
heavyweight.

Connery as a young boy.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

As a teenager. Photograph: Rex Features

Connery, number 24 in center, competes in a bodybuilder beauty contest in the 1950s.ullstein bild/Getty Images

Van Johnson, Sean Connery and
Martine Carol battle it out in a fight
scene from Action of the Tiger (1957),
directed by Terence Young.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

With Lana Turner in Another Time,
Another Place (1958). Photograph:
Cinetext/Paramount/Allstar

Connery is seen with his wife, Diane Cilento, on
their honeymoon near Marbella, Spain, in
December 1962.Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix/Getty
Images

As James Bond for Dr No (1962). Photograph: United Artists/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Ursula Andress and Connery
perform in a scene from "Dr.
No," Connery's first film as James
Bond.Michael Ochs
Archives/Moviepix/Getty Images

With Lois Maxwell in From Russia With Love (1963).
Photograph: The Kobal Collection

Actor Sean Connery poses in Istanbul, where he
filmed 'From Russia with Love', in 1963.

Filming From Russia With Love with Daniela Bianchi in 1963. Photograph: Rex Features

(Foto: Shutterstock)

James Bond, played by Sean Connery (Archive)

Connery with Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, 1964
Photograph: Donaldson Collection/Getty Images

Connery And Honor Blackman during the filming of Goldfinger. Photograph: John Knoote/Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock

Connery travels with his actress-
wife, Diane Cilento, and their
children Gigi and Jason in 1967.PA
Images/Getty Images

Golfing in Goldfinger. Photograph:
Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Connery with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie in 1964. Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Tippi Hedren (in bed) with Diane Baker, Alfred Hitchcock and Sean Connery, rehearsing the psychological thriller Marnie in 1964
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

As James Bond again in Thunderball (1965).
Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features

With Brigitte Bardot in Shalako (1968).
Photograph: Cinetext /Allstar

With an assortment of ‘Bond girls’ in Thunderball. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar

With Jill St John in the James Bond
film Diamonds are Forever (1971).
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext
Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinet
ext Collection

Connery rehearses a scene in the 1971 Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."Terry O'Neill/Getty Images

Alongside Michael Caine in John
Huston’s The Man Who Would
Be King (1975).Photograph:
Sportsphoto/Allstar

Starring as Robin
Hood, with Audrey
Hepburn as Maid
Marian, in Robin And
Marian
(1976).Photograph:
SNAP / Rex Features

In the romantic Robin Hood drama
Robin and Marian, 1976, which co-
starred Audrey Hepburn as Marian
Photograph: Allstar/Columbia

Sean Connery on the set of the 1983 Bond movie Never Say Never Again. Photograph: Sheila Penn/Sygma via Getty Images

With Gene Hackman,
Dirk Bogarde and Ryan
O’Neal in A Bridge Too
Far (1977).
Photograph:
Cinetext/Allstar

In Irvin Kershner’s Never Say Never Again with Kim Basinger, 1983
Photograph: Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images

Alongside Christian
Slater in The Name
of the Rose
(1986).Photograph:
Allstar/Cinetext

With Christopher Lambert in the action-fantasy movie Highlander, 1986Photograph: Allstar/EMI/Studiocanal.

Making up a fearsome foursome with Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith in The Untouchables (1987).Photograph: Everett / Rex Features

With the Oscar for best supporting
actor The Untouchables earned
him.Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features

Feeling the heat with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

With Michelle Pfeiffer in 1990’s The Russia House. Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features

In Medicine Man
(1992) with Lorraine
Bracco.
Photograph: Buena
Vista/Allstar/Cinetext

As Allan Quatermain in the steampunk superhero film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003
Photograph: Reuters

Posing for photographers in a photocall for his film Entrapment at the Cannes film festival in 1999.
Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

Connery’s face projected onto the rocks
beneath Edinburgh castle to mark the
opening of the Edinburgh film festival.
Photograph: Simon Grosset/PA

Connery during a day that saw him campaign for the SNP and open a theatre – the Byre theatre, St Andrews – in 2001.
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

With his wife, Micheline, at the Marrakech film festival in 2004. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features

Connery receives the European Film Academy's lifetime achievement award in 2005.DB Marcus Brandt/dpa/picture-alliance/AP

Connery received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
(AFI) in 2006, presented by Indiana Jones co-star Harrison Ford.Getty Images

Connery promotes his new book "Being a
Scot" at the Edinburgh International Book
Festival in 2008. Connery was a staunch
supporter of Scottish independence.Ed
Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Sean Connery. / REUTERS

02-NOVIEMBRE-2020 END
Sound: Randy Crawford-Imagine (with Yellowjackets)