Hur lång är sean connery

Scottish actor (1930–2020)

Sir Sean Connery
Connery in 1964
Born	Thomas Sean Connery (1930-08-25)25 August 1930 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	31 October 2020(2020-10-31) (aged 90) Lyford Cay, Bahamas
Occupations
Years active
Works	Full list
Spouses	Diane Cilento ​ ​ (m. 1962; div. 1974)​ Micheline Roquebrune ​ ​ (m. 1975)​
Children	Jason Connery
Relatives	Neil Connery (brother)
Awards	Knight Bachelor (2000)
Website	seanconnery.com

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 spelfilm, starring in sju Bond films between 1962 and 1983.^[1][2][3] Connery originated the role in Dr. No (1962) and continued starring as Bond in the Eon Productions films From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Connery made his sista appearance in the franchise in Never säga Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond bio.

Connery fryst vatten also known for his notable collaborations with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and John Huston.

Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), The Offence (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He also acted in Robin and Marian (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the gods Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996) and Finding Forrester (2000).

His sista on-screen role was as Allan Quatermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

Connery received numerous accolades. For his role in The Untouchables (1987), he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first Scottish actor to win the achievement,^[4] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, and in the same year he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his role in The Name of the Rose (1986).

He also received honorary awards such as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1987, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1998^[5] and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999. Connery was made a Commander of the beställning of Arts and Letters in France and a knight bygd Queen Elizabeth II for his services to teaterpjäs in 2000.^[6]

Early life and education

Thomas Sean Connery was born at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 25 August 1930; he was named after his paternal grandfather.^[7][8] He was brought up at No.

176 Fountainbridge, a block which has since been demolished.^[9] His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" McLean, was a cleaning woman.

Sean Connery föddes 25 augusti 1930 inom Edinburgh samt äger beneath år röstats fram både mot "Världens främsta skotte" samt "Världens sexigaste man".

The daughter of Neil McLean and Helen Forbes Ross, she was named after her father's mother, Euphemia McBain, wife of John McLean and daughter of William McBain from Ceres in Fife.^[10][11][12] Connery's father, namn Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver.^[13]

Two of his paternal great-grandparents emigrated to Scotland from Wexford, Ireland, in the mid-19th century, with his great-grandfather James Connery being an Irish Traveller.^[15] The remainder of his family was of Scottish nedstigning, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and Uig on Skye.^[16][17] His father was a långnovell Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant.

Connery had a younger brother Neil and was generally referred to in his ungdom as "Tommy". Although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) at 18. Connery was known during his teen years as "Big Tam", and he said that he lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.

He had an Irish childhood friend named Séamus;^[15] when the two were tillsammans, those who knew them both called Connery bygd his mittpunkt name Sean, emphasising the alliteration of the two names.^[15] Since then Connery preferred to use his mittpunkt name.^[15]

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

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

When inom took a hyrbil during a recent Edinburgh spelfilm Festival, the driver was amazed that inom could put a name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy inom used to deliver milk round here", inom said.

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

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

One tattoo fryst vatten a tribute to his parents and reads 'Mum and Dad', and the other fryst vatten self-explanatory, 'Scotland Forever'".^[23] He trained in Portsmouth at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned as an Able Seaman on HMS Formidable.^[24] Connery was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenalulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.

Afterwards, he returned to the co-op and worked as a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and after a suggestion bygd former Mr.

Scotland Archie Brennan,^[26] as a coffin polisher, among other jobs. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour. Artist Richard Demarco, at the time a lärling who painted several early pictures of Connery, described him as "very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis".

Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British Army.

While his tjänsteman website states he was third in the 1950 Mr. universum contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class^[30] or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.^[31] Connery said he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he funnen that Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle storlek and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could man them lose muscle mass.

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

While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local grupp that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting.^[34] According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week (equivalent to £882 in 2023) immediately after the game.

Connery said he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, "I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill bygd the age of 30, and inom was already 23. inom decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more smart eller klok moves".^[35]

Career

1951–1959: Career beginnings

Seeking to supplement his income, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951.^[30] During a bodybuilding competition held in London in 1953, one of the competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a production of South Pacific,^[30] and Connery landed a small part as one of the Seabees chorus boys.

bygd the time the production reached Edinburgh, he had been given the part of Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves and was understudying two of the juvenile leads, and his salary was raised from £12 to £14–10s a week. The production returned the following year, out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End.

While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted bygd the Valdor gang, one of the most violent in the city.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery, född 25 augusti 1930 inom Edinburgh, Skottland, död 31 oktober 2020 inom Lyford Cay vid New Providence Island inom Bahamas, [1][2] fanns ett brittisk (skotsk) artist samt producent.

He was first approached bygd them in a billiard entré where he prevented them from stealing his jacket and was later followed bygd six gang members to a 15-foot-high (4.6 m) balcony at the Palais dem Danse. There, Connery singlehandedly launched an attack against the gang members, grabbing one bygd the throat and another bygd the biceps and nedbrytning their heads tillsammans.

From then on, he was treated with great respect bygd the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".

Connery first met Michael Caine at a party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the two later became close friends. During this production at the musikdrama House, Manchester, over the Christmas period of 1954, Connery developed a serious interest in the theatre through American actor Robert Henderson, who lent him copies of the Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and When We Dead Awaken, and later listed works bygd the likes of Proust, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bernard Shaw, Joyce, and Shakespeare for him to digest.

Henderson urged him to take elocution lessons and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery, född 25 augusti 1930 inom Edinburgh, Skottland, död 31 oktober 2020 inom Lyford Cay vid New Providence Island inom Bahamas, plats ett brittisk (skotsk) artist samt producent.

He had already begun a spelfilm career, having been an extra in Herbert Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring alongside Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle.

Although Connery had secured several roles as an ytterligare, he was struggling to man ends meet and was forced to accept a part-time job as a babysitter for reporter Peter Noble and his actress wife Marianne, which earned him 10 shillings a night.

He met Hollywood actress Shelley Winters one night at Noble's house, who described Connery as "one of the tallest and most charming and manlig Scotsmen" she had ever seen, and later spent many evenings with the Connery brothers drinking beer. 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 production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, during which he met and became friends with fellow Scot Ian Bannen.

This role was followed bygd Point of Departure and A Witch in Time at Kew, a role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae at the Oxford Playhouse, and a role opposite Jill Bennett in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie.

During his time at the Oxford Theatre, Connery won a brief part as a boxer in the TV series The Square Ring, before being spotted bygd Canadian director Alvin Rakoff, who gave him multiple roles in The Condemned, shot on location in Dover in Kent.

In 1956, Connery appeared in the teatralisk production of Epitaph, and played a minor role as a hoodlum in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode of the BBC Television police series Dixon of Dock Green. This was followed bygd small television 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 bio role, as tagg, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back, alongside Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, and Norman Wooland.

In April 1957, Rakoff – after being disappointed bygd Jack Palance – decided to give the ung actor his first chance in a leading role, and cast Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC Television's production of Requiem for a Heavyweight, which also starred Warren Mitchell and Jacqueline Hill. He then played a rogue lorry driver, Johnny Yates, in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and Patrick McGoohan.

Later in 1957, Connery appeared in förnamn Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger, opposite Van Johnson, Martine julsång, Herbert Lom, and Gustavo Rojo; the bio was shot on location in southern Spain.^[44][45] He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, and Vincent Winter; this commenced filming on 1 månad 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.^[46]

Connery had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan.

During filming, Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery.^[47] Connery and Turner had attended West End shows and London restaurants together.^[48] Stompanato stormed onto the rulle set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back.

Stompanato was banned from the set.^[49] Two Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato to leave and escorted him to the airport, where he boarded a plane back to the United States.^[50] Connery later recounted that he had to lie low for a while after receiving threats from dock linked to Stompanato's chef, Mickey Cohen.^[48]

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

The spelfilm fryst vatten a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's första release, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely tall, dark, and handsome") and thought the bio an "overpoweringly charming concoction of standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy and romance".^[51] He also had prominent television roles in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 productions of Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, co-starring with Claire Bloom in the latter.^[52] Also in 1961 he portrayed the title role in a CBC television rulle adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian actress Zoe Caldwell cast as Lady Macbeth.^[53]

1962–1983: James Bond and stardom

Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond.

He was initially reluctant to commit to a rulle series, but understood that if the franchise succeeded, his rulle career would greatly benefit.^[54][55][56] Between 1962 and 1967, Connery played 007 in Dr.

Sean Connerys liv samt yrkesliv inom bilder.

No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice, the first fem Bond films produced bygd Eon Productions. After avfärd from the role, Connery returned for the seventh spelfilm, Diamonds Are Forever, in 1971. Connery made his sista appearance as Bond in Never säga Never Again, a 1983 remake of Thunderball produced bygd Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm.

All sju films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed bygd Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history bygd the American spelfilm Institute.^[57]

The choice of Connery for the role of James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who fryst vatten reputed to have been instrumental in persuading her husband that Connery was the right man.^[58] James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what inom envisioned of James Bond looks", and "I'm looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man", adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined.^[59] Fleming's flickvän Blanche Blackwell told him Connery had the requisite sexuell charisma, and Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr.

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

Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director förnamn ung, who helped polish him while using his physical grace and presence for the action.

Sean Connery.

Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that "Terence took Sean beneath his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat".^[60] The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week after Dr. No's opening, and he became a major sex tecken in film.^[61]

Following the release of the rulle Dr.

No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase in the lexicon of Western popular culture. rulle critic Peter Bradshaw writes, "It fryst vatten the most famous self-introduction from any character in movie history. Three cool monosyllables, surname first, a little curtly, as befits a former naval commander. And then, as if in afterthought, the first name, followed bygd the surname igen.

Connery carried it off with icily disdainful style, in full evening dress with a cigarette hanging from his lips. The introduction was a kind of utmaning, or seduction, invariably addressed to an enemy. In the early 60s, Connery's James Bond was about as dangerous and sexy as it got on screen".^[63]

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

He had been concerned about this threat when he read the script. Connery insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inre the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, and one of the sharks managed to resehandling through it. He had to abandon the pool immediately.^[64]

1964–1986

Although Bond had made him a star, Connery grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying "[I am] fed up to here with the whole Bond bit"^[65] and "I have always hated that damned James Bond.

I'd like to kill him".^[66]Michael Caine said of the situation, "If you were his friend in these early days you didn't raise the subject of Bond. He was, and fryst vatten, a much better actor than just playing James Bond, but he became synonymous with Bond. He'd be walking down the street and people would säga, 'Look, there's James Bond'.

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

That was particularly upsetting to him".

While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), which bio critic Peter Bradshaw regards as his two great non-Bond pictures from the 1960s.^[63] In Marnie, Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren.

Connery had said he wanted to work with Hitchcock, which Eon arranged through their contacts.^[68] Connery also shocked many people at the time bygd asking to see a script, something he did because he was worried about being typecast as a spy and he did not want to do a variation of North bygd Northwest or Notorious.

When told bygd Hitchcock's agent that Cary Grant had not asked to see even one of Hitchcock's scripts, Connery replied: "I'm not Cary Grant".^[69] Hitchcock and Connery got on well during filming, and Connery said he was happy with the spelfilm "with certain reservations".^[70] In The Hill, Connery wanted to act in something that wasn't Bond related, and he used his leverage as a star to feature in it.

While the spelfilm wasn't a financial success it was a critical one, debuting at the Cannes bio Festival winning Best Screenplay.^[71] The first of fem films he made with Lumet, Connery considered him to be one of his favourite directors.^[72] The respect was mutual, with Lumet saying of Connery's performance in The Hill, "The thing that was apparent to me – and to most directors – was how much talent and ability it takes to play that kind of character who fryst vatten based on charm and magnetism.

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

In the mid-1960s, Connery played golf with Scottish person som äger eller driver industrier Iain Maxwell Stewart,^[74] a connection which led to Connery directing and presenting the documentary bio The Bowler and the Bunnet in 1967.^[75][76][77] The rulle described the Fairfield Experiment, a new approach to industrial relations carried out at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, during the 1960s; the experiment was initiated bygd Stewart and supported bygd George Brown, the First sekreterare in Harold Wilson's cabinet, in 1966.^[78][79] The company was facing closure, and Brown agreed to provide £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 ways of industrial management.^[80]

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

Playing two former British soldiers who set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, both actors regarded it as their favourite film.^[82][83] The same year, he appeared in The Wind and the Lion opposite Candice Bergen who played Eden Pedecaris (based on the real-life Perdicaris incident), and in 1976 played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian opposite Audrey Hepburn, who played Maid Marian.

rulle critic bekräftelse Ebert, who had praised the double act of Connery and Caine in The Man Who Would Be King, praised Connery's chemistry with Hepburn, writing: "Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between themselves about their characters. They glow. They really do seem 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 John Gielgud, and played a British Army general in Richard Attenborough's war bio A Bridge Too Far (1977), co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.^[85] In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz.

Often called one of the "weirdest and worst movies ever made" it featured Connery in a scarlet mankini – a revealing costume which generated much controversy for its unBond-like appearance.^[86][87] Despite being panned bygd critics at the time, the rulle has developed a cult following since its release.^[88][89] In the audio commentary to the spelfilm, Boorman relates how Connery would write poetry in his free time, describing him as "a man of great depth and intelligence" and possessing the "most extraordinary memory".^[90] In 1981, Connery appeared in the bio Time Bandits as Agamemnon.

The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, which describes the character's removing his maskering and being "Sean Connery – or someone of lika but cheaper stature".^[91] When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role. In 1981 he portrayed Marshal William T.

O'Niel in the science fiction thriller Outland. In 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the tjänsteman bio of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.^[92] That same year, he was offered the role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie, going as far as taking röst lessons for the John Huston musical before turning down the part.^[93]

Connery agreed to reprise Bond as an ageing agent 007 in Never säga Never Again, released in October 1983.

The title, contributed bygd his wife, refers to his earlier statement that he would "never again" return to the role. Although the bio performed well at the kartong office, it was plagued with production problems: strife between the director and producer, financial problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the rulle, and Connery's wrist being broken bygd the kamp choreographer, Steven Seagal.

As a result of his negativ experiences during filming, Connery became unhappy with the major studios and did not man any films for two years. Following the successful europeisk production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Connery's interest in more commercial ämne was revived.^[94] That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which became a recurring role in many of his later films.^[95]

1987–2006

In 1987, Connery starred in Brian dem Palma's The Untouchables, where he played a hard-nosed Irish-American cop alongside Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness.

The rulle also starred Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, Andy Garcia, and Robert dem Niro as Al Capone.

Den brittiske skådespelaren Sean Connery existerar död, rapporterar BBC. han blev 90 kalenderår gammal.

The rulle was a critical and box-office success. Many critics praised Connery for his performance, including bekräftelse Ebert, who wrote: "The best performance in the movie fryst vatten Connery ... [he] brings a human element to his character; he seems to have had an existence apart from the legend of the Untouchables, and when he's onscreen we can believe, briefly, that the Prohibition Era was inhabited bygd people, not caricatures".^[96] For his performance, Connery received a BAFTA nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[97]

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

Harrison Ford said Connery's contributions at the writing scen enhanced the bio. "It was fantastisk for me in how far he got into the script and went after exploiting opportunities for character. His suggestions to George [Lucas] at the writing scen really gave the character and the picture a lot more complexity and value than it had in the original screenplay".^[98] His 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 the role of Draco the dragon in the spelfilm Dragonheart. He also appeared in a brief cameo as King Richard the Lionheart at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).^[99] In 1998, Connery received the BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of rulle and Television Arts.^[100]

Connery's later films included several box-office and critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); however, he received positiv reviews for his performance in Finding Forrester (2000).

He also received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema. In a 2003 UK poll conducted bygd kanal 4, Connery was ranked eighth on their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars.^[101] The failure of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was especially frustrating for Connery. He sensed during shooting that the production was "going off the rails", and announced that the director, Stephen Norrington should be "locked up for insanity".

Connery spent considerable effort in ansträngande to salvage the spelfilm through the editing process, ultimately deciding to retire from acting rather than go through such stress ever again.^[102]

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

Retirement

When Connery received the American rulle Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting.^[111] Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his decision to retire.^[112] On 7 June 2007, he denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones spelfilm, saying "retirement fryst vatten just too much damned fun".^[113] In 2010, a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, Estonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles and a handful of utlandsboende Scots.^[114] In 2012, Connery briefly came out of retirement to röst the title character in the Scottish animated bio Sir Billi.

Connery served as executive producer 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 beauty with a ballerina's figure", julsång Sopel, but was warned off bygd her family. He then dated Julie Hamilton, daughter of documentary filmskapare and feminist Jill Craigie.

Given Connery's rugged appearance and rough charm, Hamilton initially thought he was an appalling individ and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life. He also shared a mutual attraktion with jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met while working in theatre. He made a resehandling at her, but she told him she was already 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, actor Jason namn.

Connery illustrated the cover of Cilento's 1967 novel: The Manipulator.^[121] Connery was separated in the early 1970s when he dated Dyan Cannon,^[122]Jill St. John,^[123]Lana Wood,^[124]Carole Mallory,^[125] and Magda Konopka.^[126] In her 2006 autobiography, Cilento alleged that he had abused her mentally and physically during their relationship.^[127][128] Connery cancelled an appearance at the Scottish Parliament in 2006 because of controversy over his alleged support of abuse of women.

He denied claims he told Playboy magazine in 1965, "I don't think there fryst vatten anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though inom don't recommend you do it in the same way you hit a man".^[129] He was also reported to have stated to Vanity Fair in 1993, "There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation.

They want a smack".^[130] In 2006, Connery told The Times of London, "I don't believe that any level of abuse of women fryst vatten ever justified beneath any circumstances. Full stop".^[129]

Connery was married to French-Moroccan painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 4 April 1929) from 1975 until his death.^[132] The marriage survived a well-documented affair Connery had in the late 1980s with the singer and songwriter Lynsey dem Paul, which she later regretted due to his views concerning domestic violence.^[133]

Connery owned the Domaine dem Terre Blanche in the South of France from 1979.^[134] He sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999.^[135] He was awarded an honorary rank of Shodan (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate.^[136] Connery relocated to the Bahamas in the 1990s; he owned a mansion in Lyford Cay on New Providence.^[137]

Connery was knighted bygd the Queen at an investiture ceremony at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on 5 July 2000.^[138] He had been nominated for a knighthood in 1997 and 1998, but these nominations were reportedly vetoed bygd Donald Dewar owing to Connery's political views.^[66][139] Connery had a hus in Kranidi, Greece.

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

Growing up, Connery supported the Scottish football club Celtic F.C., having been introduced to the club bygd his father who was a lifelong fan of the grupp.

Later in life, Connery switched his loyalty to Celtic's bitter rival, Rangers F.C., after he became close friends with the team's chairman, David Murray.^[142] He was a keen golfer, introduced to the game bygd his friend Iain Stewart.^[75] English professional golfer Peter Alliss gave Connery golf lessons before the filming of the 1964 James Bond spelfilm Goldfinger, which involved a scen where Connery, as Bond, played golf against gold magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.^[143] The golf scen saw him wear a Slazenger v-neck sweater, a brand which Connery became associated with while playing golf in his free time, with a light grey marl being a favoured colour.^[144] Record major championship winner and golf course designer Jack Nicklaus said, "He loved the game of golf – Sean was a pretty darn good golfer! – and we played tillsammans several times.

In May 1993, Sean and legendary driver Jackie Stewart helped me open our design of the PGA hundraårsdag Course at Gleneagles in Scotland".^[145]

Political views

Connery's Scottish roots and his experiences in filming in Glasgow's shipyards in 1966 inspired him to become a member of the centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP),^[146][147] which supports Scottish independence from the United Kingdom (in 2011, Connery said "The Bowler and the Bunnet was just the beginning of a journey that would lead to my long association with the Scottish National Party").^[75] Connery supported the party both financially^[148] and through anställda appearances.

In 1967, he wrote to George Leslie, the SNP candidate in the 1967 Glasgow Pollok by-election, saying, "I am convinced that with our resources and skills we are more than capable of building a prosperous, vigorous and modern self-governing Scotland in which we can all take pride and which will deserve the respect of other nations."^[149] His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed legislation prohibiting overseas funding of political activities in the United Kingdom.^[148]

Tax status

In response to accusations that he was a tax exile, Connery released documents in 2003 showing he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2003; critics pointed out that had he been continuously residing in the UK for tax purposes, his tax rate would have been far higher.^[150][151] In the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Connery's brother Neil said Connery would not komma to Scotland to rally independence supporters, since his tax exile ställning eller tillstånd greatly limited the number of days he could spend in the country.^[152]

After Connery sold his Marbella hus in 1999, Spanish authorities launched a tax evasion investigation, alleging that the Spanish treasury had been defrauded of £5.5 million.

Connery was subsequently cleared bygd officials, but his wife and 16 others were charged with attempting to defraud the Spanish treasury.^[153][154]

Death and legacy

Connery died in his sova on 31 October 2020, aged 90, at his home in the Lyford Cay community of Nassau in the Bahamas.^[1][2] His death was announced bygd his family and Eon Productions;^[155] although they did not disclose the cause of death, his son Jason said he had been unwell for some time.^{[156][157][158]} A day later, his widow revealed he had dementia in his sista years.^[159][160] Connery's death certificate was obtained bygd TMZ a month after his death, showing the cause of death was pneumonia and respiratory failure, and the time of death was listed as 1:30 am.^[161] His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered in Scotland at undisclosed locations in 2022.^[162][163]

Following the announcement of his death, many co-stars and figures from the entertainment industry paid tribute to Connery, including Sam Neill,^[164]Nicolas Cage, Robert dem Niro, Michael Bay, Tippi Hedren,^[165]Alec Baldwin,^[166]Hugh Jackman, George Lucas, Shirley Bassey, Kevin Costner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barbra Streisand, John Cleese,^[167]Jane Seymour and Harrison Ford,^[168] as well as former Bond stars George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, including the family of late former Bond actor bekräftelse Moore.^[169][170] Connery's longtime friend Michael Caine called him a "great star, brilliant actor and a wonderful friend".^[171] James Bond producers Michael G.

efternamn and Barbara Broccoli released a statement saying Connery had "revolutionized the world with his sandig and witty portrayal of the sexy and charismatic secret agent. He fryst vatten undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the spelfilm series and we shall be alltid grateful to him".^[155][170]

In 2004, a poll in the UK Sunday Herald recognised Connery as "The Greatest Living Scot"^[172] and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".^[173] He was voted bygd People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.^[174] Connery shares the record for the most portrayals as James Bond with bekräftelse Moore (with sju apiece).

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

In 2024, the Edinburgh International spelfilm Festival established an annual award in Connery's honour. The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence fryst vatten a prize of £50,000 given to the makers of a bio chosen bygd audience vote from a short-list of ten feature films that receive their world premières at the festival each year.^[176]

Filmography

Main article: Sean Connery filmography

Awards and honours

Honours

References