Sean Connery, the first actor to pronounce the unforgettable “Bond, James Bond”. (Courtesy of AFP)
Strong points
- Sean Connery died on Saturday
- He was 90 years old
- He gained worldwide fame playing the iconic 007 secret agent
London:
Sean connery, who died at the age of 90, was one of Britain’s biggest movie stars, gaining worldwide fame and adoration for playing the iconic 007 secret agent, James Bond. The Oscar-winning actor will always be associated with his sweet portrayal and sweet Scottish spy accents and was considered a sex symbol into his old age. Sir Sean Connery was a very proud Scotsman and a funder of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which advocates the separation of Scotland from the United Kingdom.
The first actor to pronounce the unforgettable “Bond, James Bond,” Connery made six official films as the creation of novelist Ian Fleming, giving what many still consider the definitive portrait.
He played the role of Bond in Dr No (1962), his favorite From Russia with love (1963), The golden finger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You only live twice (1967) and Diamonds are forever (1971).
He made a comeback as a British spy in the unofficial 1983 film Never say never and was even named a Sexist Man by People Magazine in 1989 – just before his 60th birthday.
– From humble beginnings –
Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in the popular Fountainbridge district of Edinburgh to a father a truck driver and a factory worker mother, the eldest of two boys.
“My childhood was far from auspicious, but when I was young we didn’t know we were lacking something because we had nothing to compare and there is freedom in that,” said he said upon receiving the 34th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 2006.
“I had my break, my big break, when I was five and it took me over 70 years to realize that. You see, at five I learned to read. C it’s that simple and it’s that deep. “
He left school at 13 and began his professional life as a milkman before joining the Royal Navy at 16. He was fired after three years with a stomach ulcer.
Her two tattoos, acquired during her service, read: “Mom and Dad” and “Scotland Forever”.
Sean Connery returned to Edinburgh and worked as a bricklayer, rescuer, and casket polisher, among other manual jobs.
His bodybuilding hobby led him to enter the Mr Universe competition, where another contestant urged him to audition for acting roles.
He had tracks for years before his big break in a movie melodrama, Another time, another place (1958), then won the role of Bond.
Sean Connery portrait 007 Helped him land a role in director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 thriller Marnie. However, he spent much of his post-Bond film career in ensemble casts.
He played in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The man who wanted to be king (1975), Robin and Marian (1976) and Highlander (1986), before a memorable performance as the father of the eponymous hero in Indiana Jones and the last crusade (1989).
– ‘Real movie star’ –
Sean connery won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1988 for his portrayal of the street cop Jim Malone in The Incorruptibles.
“There are seven real movie stars in the world today, and Sean is one of them,” director Steven Spielberg said at the time.
In the 1990s, Sean Connery produced numerous films in which he starred, appearing in Red October Hunting (1990) as a Russian submarine commander, Sunrise (1993) alongside Wesley Snipes, action film The rock (1996) and Trapping (1999) with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
He announced his retirement after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Dressed in full Highland attire, including a tartan kilt, Connery was knighted in July 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.
“It is one of the proudest days of my life,” the new Sir Sean told reporters.
Among his other accolades, he received the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews and the Legion of Honor of France.
He won the BAFTA Best British Actor Award in 1988 for his portrayal of Franciscan Brother Guillaume de Baskerville in the film adaptation of Umberto Eco. The name of the rose.
Sean Connery also received a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 for his contribution to world cinema.
In 2003, Empire movie magazine put him at the top of their list of bad accents to keep his Scottish tones, whatever the role.
– Tax exile –
Despite his love for Scotland, SNP supporter Sean Connery has been a tax exile for decades in Marbella, Spain and the Bahamas. He was furious in 2000 when new rules prevented non-domiciles from donating to UK political parties.
“I was paying 98% tax. I was making all that money and making movies and I had nothing,” he said one day, when asked why he left his homeland.
Sean Connery’s marriage to his second wife Micheline Roquebrune, a French artist, came in 1975 shortly after his divorce from Australian actress Diane Cilento with whom he had a son in 1963, Jason, who is an actor.
But although he denied Cilento’s claims that he had beaten her in the past, he courted controversy by arguing that it was justifiable in certain circumstances for a man to slap his wife.
Cilento blamed his poor upbringing for their clashes, but Connery saw his track record as the key to his acting success.
“My strength as an actor is that I stayed close to the heart of myself, which has something to do with a voice, a music, an air that is very much linked to my past,” he said. he told the New York Times. .
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