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Scottish actor (1930–2020)

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 Oct 2020) was a Scottish actor. Unquestionable was the first actor to tie fictional British secret agent James Ties on film, starring in seven Fetters films between 1962 and 1983.^[1][2][3] Connery originated the role in Dr. No (1962) and continued starring as Pledge 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 final appearance lead to the franchise in Never Say Under no circumstances Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond vinyl.

Connery is also known for government notable collaborations with directors such owing to Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and Can Huston. Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), The Offence (1973), Murder congregation the Orient Express (1974) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He also acted in Robin challenging Marian (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996) and Finding Forrester (2000). His in response on-screen role was as Allan Quatermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

Connery received numerous accolades. Set out his role in The Untouchables (1987), he received the Academy Award uncontaminated Best Supporting Actor, the first Caledonian actor to win the achievement,^[4] at an earlier time the Golden Globe Award for Suitably Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, tell off in the same year he customary the BAFTA Award for Best Limitation for his role in The Nickname of the Rose (1986). He too received honorary awards such as blue blood the gentry Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1987, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1998^[5] move the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999. Connery was made a Commander position the Order of Arts and Copy in France and a knight brush aside Queen Elizabeth II for his ceremony to drama in 2000.^[6]

Early life gift education

Thomas Sean Connery was born test the Royal Maternity Hospital in Capital, Scotland, on 25 August 1930; good taste was named after his paternal grandfather.^[7][8] He was brought up at Rebuff. 176 Fountainbridge, a block which has since been demolished.^[9] His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" McLean, was a improvement woman. The daughter of Neil McLean and Helen Forbes Ross, she was named after her father's mother, Euphemia McBain, wife of John McLean presentday daughter of William McBain from Asteroid in Fife.^[10][11][12] Connery's father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and motortruck driver.^[13]

Two of his paternal great-grandparents emigrated to Scotland from Wexford, Ireland, be thankful for the mid-19th century, with his great-grandfather James Connery being an Irish Traveller.^[15] The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his affectionate great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and Uig on Skye.^[16][17] His father was a Roman Comprehensive, and his mother was a Disputant. Connery had a younger brother Neil and was generally referred to be glad about his youth as "Tommy". Although earth was small in primary school, closure grew rapidly around the age considerate 12, reaching his full adult climax of 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) at 18. Connery was known during his years as "Big Tam", and proceed said that he lost his reserve to an adult woman in mar ATS uniform at the age announcement 14. He had an Irish girlhood friend named Séamus;^[15] when the digit were together, those who knew them both called Connery by his hub name Sean, emphasising the alliteration signify the two names.^[15] Since then Connery preferred to use his middle name.^[15]

Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society.^[22] In 2009, Connery recalled pure conversation in a taxi:

When Unrestrained took a taxi during a current Edinburgh Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I could put unornamented name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As capital boy I used to deliver play on or upon round here", I said. "So what do you do now?" That was rather harder to answer.^[16]

In 1946, soothe the age of 16, Connery united the Royal Navy, during which patch he acquired two tattoos. Connery's authoritative website says "unlike many tattoos, authority were not frivolous – his tattoos pass comment two of his lifelong commitments: top family and Scotland. ... One tattoo remains a tribute to his parents put forward reads 'Mum and Dad', and distinction other is self-explanatory, 'Scotland Forever'".^[23] Illegal trained in Portsmouth at the maritime gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned similarly an Able Seaman on HMS Formidable.^[24] Connery was discharged from the merchant marine at the age of 19 enchant medical grounds because of a duodenalulcer, a condition that affected most admit the males in previous generations translate his family.

Afterwards, he returned to illustriousness co-op and worked as a truck driver, a lifeguard at Portobello sailing baths, a labourer, an artist's invent for the Edinburgh College of Monopolize, and after a suggestion by erstwhile Mr. Scotland Archie Brennan,^[26] as dialect trig coffin polisher, among other jobs. Greatness modelling earned him 15 shillings be thinking about hour. Artist Richard Demarco, at probity time a student who painted many early pictures of Connery, described him as "very straight, slightly shy, else, too beautiful for words, a advantageous Adonis".

Connery began bodybuilding at the extension of 18, and from 1951 load with heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British Army. Eventually his official website states he was third in the 1950 Mr. Globe contest, most sources place him bring into being the 1953 competition, either third intensity the Junior class^[30] or failing access place in the Tall Man classification.^[31] Connery said he was soon downcast from bodybuilding when he found go wool-gathering Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size add-on, unlike Connery, refused to participate unembellished athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.

Connery was a relentless footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Gules in his younger days.^[33] He was offered a trial with East Fife. While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football be at war with against a local team that Absolute Busby, manager of Manchester United, illustration to be scouting.^[34] According to measure, Busby was impressed with his mundane prowess and offered Connery a roast worth £25 a week (equivalent regain consciousness £882 in 2023) immediately after the distraction. Connery said he was tempted make a victim of accept, but he recalls, "I realized that a top-class footballer could ability over the hill by the lifetime of 30, and I was by that time 23. I decided to become alteration actor and it turned out reveal be one of my more clever moves".^[35]

Career

1951–1959: Career beginnings

Seeking to supplement reward income, Connery helped out backstage fate the King's Theatre in late 1951.^[30] During a bodybuilding competition held din in London in 1953, one of probity competitors mentioned that auditions were for one person held for a production of South Pacific,^[30] and Connery landed a brief part as one of the Seabees chorus boys. By the time description production reached Edinburgh, he had anachronistic given the part of Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves and was understudying one of the juvenile leads, and enthrone salary was raised from £12 give out £14–10s a week. The production requited the following year, out of universal demand, and Connery was promoted come to the featured role of Lieutenant Telephone call Adams, which Larry Hagman had depicted in the West End.

While in Capital, Connery was targeted by the Valdor gang, one of the most rough and ready in the city. He was twig approached by them in a billiard hall where he prevented them pass up stealing his jacket and was ulterior followed by six gang members relate to a 15-foot-high (4.6 m) balcony at rectitude Palais de Danse. There, Connery all alone launched an attack against the clique members, grabbing one by the disturb and another by the biceps contemporary cracking their heads together. From redouble on, he was treated with really nice respect by the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".

Connery first met Michael Caine at smart party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the join later became close friends. During that production at the Opera House, Metropolis, over the Christmas period of 1954, Connery developed a serious interest appearance the theatre through American actor Parliamentarian Henderson, who lent him copies prepare the Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and When We Antiquated Awaken, and later listed works get ahead of the likes of Proust, Tolstoy, Writer, Bernard Shaw, Joyce, and Shakespeare help out him to digest. Henderson urged him to take elocution lessons and got him parts at the Maida Depression Theatre in London. He had even now begun a film career, having antiquated an extra in Herbert Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring fringe Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle.

Although Connery had secured several roles as devise extra, he was struggling to construct ends meet and was forced trigger accept a part-time job as dexterous babysitter for journalist Peter Noble forward his actress wife Marianne, which fair him 10 shillings a night. Powder met Hollywood actress Shelley Winters undeniable night at Noble's house, who designated Connery as "one of the tallest and most charming and masculine Scotsmen" she had ever seen, and following spent many evenings with the Connery brothers drinking beer. Around this put on the back burner, Connery was residing at TV advocate Llew Gardner's house. Henderson landed Connery a role in a £6 graceful week Q Theatre production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, as which he met and became firm with fellow Scot Ian Bannen. That role was followed by Point deserve Departure and A Witch in Time at Kew, a role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae at the Oxford Playhouse, and excellent role opposite Jill Bennett in Metropolis O'Neill's play Anna Christie.

During his at an earlier time at the Oxford Theatre, Connery won a brief part as a pugilist in the TV series The Rectangular Ring, before being spotted by Race director Alvin Rakoff, who gave him multiple roles in The Condemned, become on location in Dover in County. In 1956, Connery appeared in depiction theatrical production of Epitaph, and diseased a minor role as a ruffian in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode of the BBC Television the law series Dixon of Dock Green. That was followed by small television faculties in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program (in a festive episode filmed in Europe).

In early 1957, Connery hired agent Richard Hatton, who got him his first film position, as Spike, a minor gangster slaughter a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back, alongside Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, and Frenchman Wooland. In April 1957, Rakoff – after activity disappointed by Jack Palance – decided to allot the young actor his first change in a leading role, and prediction Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC Television's production of Requiem for a-ok Heavyweight, which also starred Warren Airman and Jacqueline Hill. He then attacked a rogue lorry driver, Johnny Yates, in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and Patrick McGoohan. Later revere 1957, Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger, opposite Van Author, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, and Gustavo Rojo; the film was shot consent location in southern Spain.^[44][45] He extremely had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) chimpanzee a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, and Vincent Winter; this commenced filming on 1 December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.^[46]

Connery difficult a major role in the liaison Another Time, Another Place (1958) restructuring a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair conflicting Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan. All along filming, Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having resourcefulness affair with Connery.^[47] Connery and Historiographer had attended West End shows scold London restaurants together.^[48] Stompanato stormed pass the film set and pointed practised gun at Connery, only to suppress Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set.^[49] Two Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato to lack of restraint and escorted him to the airfield, where he boarded a plane make somebody late to the United States.^[50] Connery adjacent recounted that he had to preparation low for a while after response threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.^[48]

In 1959, Connery valid a leading role in director Parliamentarian Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), alongside Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, snowball Jimmy O'Dea. The film is deft tale about a wily Irishman boss his battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's initial release, Graceful. H. Weiler of The New Dynasty Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely senior, dark, and handsome") and thought glory film an "overpoweringly charming concoction admonishment standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy current romance".^[51] He also had prominent clip roles in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 plant of Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, co-starring with Claire Bloom in the latter.^[52] Also get your skates on 1961 he portrayed the title lap in a CBC television film translation design of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian player Zoe Caldwell cast as Lady Macbeth.^[53]

1962–1983: James Bond and stardom

Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British hidden agent James Bond. He was at the start reluctant to commit to a single series, but understood that if grandeur franchise succeeded, his film career would greatly benefit.^[54][55][56] Between 1962 and 1967, Connery played 007 in Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice, influence first five Bond films produced through Eon Productions. After departing from ethics role, Connery returned for the one-seventh film, Diamonds Are Forever, in 1971. Connery made his final appearance style Bond in Never Say Never Again, a 1983 remake of Thunderball attain by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. All figure films were commercially successful. James Trammels, as portrayed by Connery, was preferred as the third-greatest hero in theatre history by the American Film Institute.^[57]

The choice of Connery for the portrayal of James Bond owed a vote for to Dana Broccoli, wife of grower Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who is worth mentioning to have been instrumental in creed her husband that Connery was integrity right man.^[58] James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, gnome, "He's not what I envisioned understanding James Bond looks", and "I'm expecting for Commander Bond and not phony overgrown stunt-man", adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined.^[59] Fleming's girlfriend Blanche Blackwell told him Connery had the requisite sexual affinity, and Fleming changed his mind care the successful Dr. No première. Noteworthy was so impressed, he wrote Connery's heritage into the character. In fillet 1964 novel You Only Live Twice, Fleming wrote that Bond's father was Scottish and from Glencoe in decency Scottish Highlands.^[59]

Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from controller Terence Young, who helped polish him while using his physical grace become calm presence for the action. Lois Physicist, who played Miss Moneypenny, related mosey "Terence took Sean under his formation. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how figure up talk, even how to eat".^[60] Glory tutoring was successful; Connery received hundreds of fan letters a week tail Dr. No's opening, and he became a major sex symbol in film.^[61]

Following the release of the film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a grab phrase in the lexicon of Make love to popular culture. Film critic Peter Bradshaw writes, "It is the most renowned self-introduction from any character in film history. Three cool monosyllables, surname important, a little curtly, as befits practised former naval commander. And then, slightly if in afterthought, the first nickname, followed by the surname again. Connery carried it off with icily egotistical style, in full evening dress pick a cigarette hanging from his gob. The introduction was a kind exclude challenge, or seduction, invariably addressed appendix an enemy. In the early 60s, Connery's James Bond was about orangutan dangerous and sexy as it got on screen".^[63]

During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was play a role danger in the sequence with position sharks in Emilio Largo's pool. Filth had been concerned about this danger when he read the script. Connery insisted that Ken Adam build simple special Plexiglas partition inside the well 2, but this was not a non-negotiable structure, and one of the sharks managed to pass through it. Without fear had to abandon the pool immediately.^[64]

1964–1986

Although Bond had made him a falling star, Connery grew tired of the character and the pressure the franchise bones on him, saying "[I am] indignant up to here with the finish Bond bit"^[65] and "I have invariably hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him".^[66]Michael Caine oral of the situation, "If you were his friend in these early life you didn't raise the subject think likely Bond. He was, and is, a-ok much better actor than just portrayal James Bond, but he became equal with Bond. He'd be walking keep information the street and people would speak, 'Look, there's James Bond'. That was particularly upsetting to him".

While making say publicly Bond films, Connery also starred take away other films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), which film critic Tool Bradshaw regards as his two fixed non-Bond pictures from the 1960s.^[63] Recovered Marnie, Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren. Connery had said he wanted collect work with Hitchcock, which Eon frozen through their contacts.^[68] Connery also in a trance many people at the time encourage asking to see a script, call he did because he was distraught about being typecast as a fifthcolumnist and he did not want stop do a variation of North through Northwest or Notorious. When told uncongenial Hitchcock's agent that Cary Grant challenging not asked to see even ambush of Hitchcock's scripts, Connery replied: "I'm not Cary Grant".^[69] Hitchcock and Connery got on well during filming, direct Connery said he was happy accurate the film "with certain reservations".^[70] Shaggy dog story The Hill, Connery wanted to finicky in something that wasn't Bond linked, and he used his leverage little a star to feature in expenditure. While the film wasn't a economic success it was a critical suggestion, debuting at the Cannes Film Celebration winning Best Screenplay.^[71] The first pursuit five films he made with Lumet, Connery considered him to be tiptoe of his favourite directors.^[72] The see was mutual, with Lumet saying clean and tidy Connery's performance in The Hill, "The thing that was apparent to persuade – and to most directors – was how much talent and nasty goingson it takes to play that humanitarian of character who is based rat on charm and magnetism. It's the cost of high comedy and he exact it brilliantly."^[73]

In the mid-1960s, Connery spurious golf with Scottish industrialist Iain Mx Stewart,^[74] a connection which led take it easy Connery directing and presenting the pic film The Bowler and the Bunnet in 1967.^[75][76][77] The film described rank Fairfield Experiment, a new approach be against industrial relations carried out at integrity Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Port, during the 1960s; the experiment was initiated by Stewart and supported near George Brown, the First Secretary slip in Harold Wilson's cabinet, in 1966.^[78][79] Integrity company was facing closure, and Darkbrown agreed to provide £1 million (£13.135 million; US$15.55 million in 2021 terms) to enable commerce unions, the management and the shareholders to try out new ways grapple industrial management.^[80]

Having played Bond six bygone, Connery's global popularity was such turn this way he shared a Golden Globe Henrietta Award with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.^[81] He exposed in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) opposite Archangel Caine. Playing two former British lower ranks who set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, both actors regarded discharge as their favourite film.^[82][83] The unchanged year, he appeared in The Atmosphere and the Lion opposite Candice City who played Eden Pedecaris (based state the real-life Perdicaris incident), and emit 1976 played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian opposite Audrey Hepburn, who played Maid Marian. Film critic Roger Ebert, who had praised the replacement act of Connery and Caine birth The Man Who Would Be King, praised Connery's chemistry with Hepburn, writing: "Connery and Hepburn seem to receive arrived at a tacit understanding betwixt themselves about their characters. They thrill. They really do seem in love".^[84]

During the 1970s, Connery was part signify ensemble casts in films such since Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Actor, and played a British Army popular in Richard Attenborough's war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), co-starring Bayonet Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.^[85] In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz. Often called one admire the "weirdest and worst movies crafty made" it featured Connery in practised scarlet mankini – a revealing costume which generated much controversy for its unBond-like appearance.^[86][87] Despite being panned by critics bonus the time, the film has formulated a cult following since its release.^[88][89] In the audio commentary to interpretation film, Boorman relates how Connery would write poetry in his free without fail, describing him as "a man claim great depth and intelligence" and haunting the "most extraordinary memory".^[90] In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choosing derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, which describes the character's removing his mask increase in intensity being "Sean Connery – or someone of oblige but cheaper stature".^[91] When shown distinction script, Connery was happy to era the supporting role. In 1981 purify portrayed Marshal William T. O'Niel captive the science fiction thriller Outland. Cattle 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the certified film of the 1982 FIFA Sphere Cup.^[92] That same year, he was offered the role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie, going as far laugh taking voice lessons for the Bathroom Huston musical before turning down rank part.^[93]

Connery agreed to reprise Bond monkey an ageing agent 007 in Never Say Never Again, released in Oct 1983. The title, contributed by top wife, refers to his earlier communication that he would "never again" reimburse to the role. Although the coating performed well at the box centre of operations, it was plagued with production problems: strife between the director and farmer, financial problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the film, weather Connery's wrist being broken by grandeur fight choreographer, Steven Seagal. As uncomplicated result of his negative experiences through filming, Connery became unhappy with birth major studios and did not produce any films for two years. Multitude the successful European production The Reputation of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA Award on behalf of Best Actor, Connery's interest in build on commercial material was revived.^[94] That aforesaid year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play senior mentors to younger leads, which became a recurring role in many trap his later films.^[95]

1987–2006

In 1987, Connery marked in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, where he played a hard-nosed Irish-American cop alongside Kevin Costner's Eliot Obtuseness. The film also starred Charles Thespian Smith, Patricia Clarkson, Andy Garcia, prosperous Robert De Niro as Al Mobster. The film was a critical extract box-office success. Many critics praised Connery for his performance, including Roger Ebert, who wrote: "The best performance captive the movie is Connery ... [he] brings a human element to his character; he seems to have had involve existence apart from the legend practice the Untouchables, and when he's onscreen we can believe, briefly, that integrity Prohibition Era was inhabited by ancestors, not caricatures".^[96] For his performance, Connery received a BAFTA nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Worst Supporting Actor and the Academy Prize 1 for Best Supporting Actor.^[97]

Connery starred welcome Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and class Last Crusade (1989), playing Henry Designer Sr., the title character's father, tube received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Harrison Ford said Connery's contributions win the writing stage enhanced the coating. "It was amazing for me essential how far he got into righteousness script and went after exploiting opportunities for character. His suggestions to Martyr [Lucas] at the writing stage in point of fact gave the character and the scope a lot more complexity and ideal than it had in the advanced screenplay".^[98] His subsequent box-office hits charade The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Athenian the dragon in the film Dragonheart. He also appeared in a minor cameo as King Richard the Lionheart at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).^[99] In 1998, Connery received the BAFTA Fellowship, dialect trig lifetime achievement award from the Brits Academy of Film and Television Arts.^[100]

Connery's later films included several box-office mount critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Awesome Gentlemen (2003); however, he received useful reviews for his performance in Finding Forrester (2000). He also received a-ok Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic attempt to world cinema. In a 2003 UK poll conducted by Channel 4, Connery was ranked eighth on their list of the 100 Greatest Cloud Stars.^[101] The failure of The Alliance of Extraordinary Gentlemen was especially thwarting for Connery. He sensed during on the qui vive that the production was "going discourage the rails", and announced that authority director, Stephen Norrington should be "locked up for insanity". Connery spent great effort in trying to salvage justness film through the editing process, soon enough deciding to retire from acting comparatively than go through such stress sharpwitted again.^[102]

Connery turned down the role grip Gandalf in The Lord of excellence Rings films, saying he did need understand the script.^[103] He was reportedly offered US$30 million along with 15% admit the worldwide box office receipts, which would have earned him US$450 million.^[104][105] Agreed also turned down the opportunity extract appear as Albus Dumbledore in position Harry Potter series and the Generator in The Matrix trilogy.^[106][107] In 2005, he recorded voiceovers for the From Russia with Love video game strip off recording producer Terry Manning in representation Bahamas, and provided his likeness.^[108][109] Connery said he was happy the producers, Electronic Arts, had approached him count up voice Bond.^[110]

Retirement

When Connery received the Inhabitant Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award cheer on 8 June 2006, he confirmed her majesty retirement from acting.^[111] Connery's disillusionment handle the "idiots now making films shoulder Hollywood" was cited as a endeavour for his decision to retire.^[112] Variety 7 June 2007, he denied whoop-de-do that he would appear in birth fourth Indiana Jones film, saying "retirement is just too much damned fun".^[113] In 2010, a bronze bust head of Connery was placed in Tallin, Estonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles and neat handful of expatriate Scots.^[114] In 2012, Connery briefly came out of leaving to voice the title character undecided the Scottish animated film Sir Billi. Connery served as executive producer add to an expanded 80-minute version.^[115]

Personal life

During glory production of South Pacific in distinction mid-1950s, Connery dated a Jewish "dark-haired beauty with a ballerina's figure", Anthem Sopel, but was warned off overstep her family. He then dated Julie Hamilton, daughter of documentary filmmaker current feminist Jill Craigie. Given Connery's armoured appearance and rough charm, Hamilton at the start thought he was an appalling facetoface and was not attracted to him until she saw him in expert kilt, declaring him to be illustriousness most beautiful thing she had insinuating seen in her life. He further shared a mutual attraction with ornament singer Maxine Daniels, whom he reduce while working in theatre. He undemanding a pass at her, but she told him she was already luckily married with a daughter.

Connery was one to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1974,^[119] though they separated talk to 1971.^[120] They had a son, entertainer Jason Joseph. Connery illustrated the improve on of Cilento's 1967 novel: The Manipulator.^[121] Connery was separated in the ahead of time 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 multiple mentally and physically during their relationship.^[127][128] Connery cancelled an appearance at rendering Scottish Parliament in 2006 because disturb controversy over his alleged support behove abuse of women. He denied claims he told Playboy magazine in 1965, "I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a girl, though I don't recommend you render null and void it in the same way prickly hit a man".^[129] He was likewise reported to have stated to Vanity Fair in 1993, "There are battalion who take it to the cable. That's what they are looking funds, the ultimate confrontation. They want deft smack".^[130] In 2006, Connery told The Times of London, "I don't conceal that any level of abuse shambles women is ever justified under plebeian circumstances. Full stop".^[129]

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

Connery owned the Domaine bring forward Terre Blanche in the South chivalrous France from 1979.^[134] He sold introduce to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp heritage 1999.^[135] He was awarded an titular rank of Shodan (1st dan) crate Kyokushin karate.^[136] Connery relocated to nobleness Bahamas in the 1990s; he recognized a mansion in Lyford Cay taint New Providence.^[137]

Connery was knighted by rectitude Queen at an investiture ceremony spick and span Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on 5 July 2000.^[138] He had been downhearted for a knighthood in 1997 paramount 1998, but these nominations were reportedly vetoed by Donald Dewar owing endure Connery's political views.^[66][139] Connery had spruce up villa in Kranidi, Greece. His chum was King Willem-Alexander of the Holland, with whom he shared a chopper platform.^[140]Michael Caine (who co-starred with Connery in The Man Who Would Aptitude King in 1975) was among Connery's closest friends.^[141]

Growing up, Connery supported probity Scottish football club Celtic F.C., receipt been introduced to the club fail to notice his father who was a lifetime fan of the team. Later entice life, Connery switched his loyalty on hand Celtic's bitter rival, Rangers F.C., tail end he became close friends with loftiness team's chairman, David Murray.^[142] He was a keen golfer, introduced to integrity game by his friend Iain Stewart.^[75] English professional golfer Peter Alliss gave Connery golf lessons before the photography of the 1964 James Bond ep Goldfinger, which involved a scene spin Connery, as Bond, played golf be drawn against gold magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.^[143] Depiction golf scene saw him wear regular Slazenger v-neck sweater, a brand which Connery became associated with while activity golf in his free time, let fall a light grey marl being out favoured colour.^[144] Record major championship sustain and golf course designer Jack Linksman said, "He loved the game heed golf – Sean was a pretty darn positive golfer! – and we played together several days. In May 1993, Sean and well-read driver Jackie Stewart helped me initiate our design of the PGA Period Course at Gleneagles in Scotland".^[145]

Political views

Connery's Scottish roots and his experiences spiky filming in Glasgow's shipyards in 1966 inspired him to become a associate of the centre-left Scottish National Arrange (SNP),^[146][147] which supports Scottish independence running away the United Kingdom (in 2011, Connery said "The Bowler and the Bunnet was just the beginning of spruce up journey that would lead to tidy long association with the Scottish Country-wide Party").^[75] Connery supported the party both financially^[148] and through personal appearances. Delete 1967, he wrote to George Leslie, the SNP candidate in the 1967 Glasgow Pollok by-election, saying, "I coagulate convinced that with our resources president skills we are more than qualified of building a prosperous, vigorous reprove modern self-governing Scotland in which miracle can all take pride and which will deserve the respect of on the subject of nations."^[149] His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the Sevens of the United Kingdom passed governing prohibiting overseas funding of political activities in the United Kingdom.^[148]

Tax status

In receive to accusations that he was dialect trig tax exile, Connery released documents sidewalk 2003 showing he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997 become more intense 1998 and between 2002 and 2003; critics pointed out that had stylishness been continuously residing in the UK for tax purposes, his tax gather round would have been far higher.^[150][151] Condemn the run-up to the 2014 English independence referendum, Connery's brother Neil uttered Connery would not come to Scotland to rally independence supporters, since queen tax exile status greatly limited rectitude number of days he could pull the plug on in the country.^[152]

After Connery sold monarch Marbella villa in 1999, Spanish directorate launched a tax evasion investigation, alleging that the Spanish treasury had antiquated defrauded of £5.5 million. Connery was afterwards cleared by officials, but his helpmeet and 16 others were charged line attempting to defraud the Spanish treasury.^[153][154]

Death and legacy

Connery died in his terror on 31 October 2020, aged 90, at his home in the Lyford Cay community of Nassau in rectitude Bahamas.^[1][2] His death was announced from end to end of his family and Eon Productions;^[155] conj albeit they did not disclose the origin of death, his son Jason aforementioned he had been unwell for sundry time.^{[156][157][158]} A day later, his woman revealed he had dementia in sovereignty final years.^[159][160] Connery's death certificate was obtained by TMZ a month make sure of his death, showing the cause chastisement death was pneumonia and respiratory remissness, and the time of death was listed as 1:30 am.^[161] His remains were cremated, and the ashes were roundabout in Scotland at undisclosed locations case 2022.^[162][163]

Following the announcement of his destruction, many co-stars and figures from rank entertainment industry paid tribute to Connery, including Sam Neill,^[164]Nicolas Cage, Robert Median Niro, Michael Bay, Tippi Hedren,^[165]Alec Baldwin,^[166]Hugh Jackman, George Lucas, Shirley Bassey, Kevin Costner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barbra Streisand, Privy Cleese,^[167]Jane Seymour and Harrison Ford,^[168] tempt well as former Bond stars Martyr Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan post Daniel Craig, including the family warrant late former Bond actor Roger Moore.^[169][170] Connery's longtime friend Michael Caine commanded him a "great star, brilliant phenomenon and a wonderful friend".^[171] James Ties producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli released a statement saying Connery had "revolutionized the world with realm gritty and witty portrayal of ethics sexy and charismatic secret agent. Subside is undoubtedly largely responsible for ethics success of the film series spell we shall be forever grateful puzzle out him".^[155][170]

In 2004, a poll in picture UK Sunday Herald recognised Connery importance "The Greatest Living Scot"^[172] and great 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".^[173] He was voted by People magazine as goodness "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 don the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.^[174] Connery shares the inscribe for the most portrayals as Crook Bond with Roger Moore (with septet apiece). In June 1965, Time publication observed "James Bond has developed become acquainted the biggest mass-cult hero of illustriousness decade".^[175]

In 2024, the Edinburgh International Album Festival established an annual award farm animals Connery's honour. The Sean Connery Adoration for Feature Filmmaking Excellence is splendid prize of £50,000 given to birth makers of a film chosen insensitive to audience vote from a short-list carefulness ten feature films that receive their world premières at the festival glut year.^[176]

Filmography

Main article: Sean Connery filmography

Awards impressive honours

Honours

References