Actor Sean Connery Has Dead – In Memory

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Sean Connery, the actor who “gave face to James Bond”, has died at the age of 90, the BBC reported. His career spanned decades and included such titles as The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Scottish Fighter, and The Rock.

He has worked with directors such as Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, Brian de Palma, Jean-Jacques Ano. Connery won an Oscar for The Untouchables, as well as BAFTA, Golden Globe and more. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the Order of the British Empire.

Connery became popular with the series Agent 007. He played James Bond in a total of seven films and eventually got tired. “He was and is a much better actor, but he became synonymous with Bond. People said, ‘Here’s James Bond’ when they saw him on the street. It bothered him a lot,” said his close friend Michael Kane.

In 2004, The Sunday Herald named him “the best living Scotsman”, and in 2011 a EuroMillions poll named him “Scotland’s greatest living national treasure.”

Connery spent much of his life as a resident of the Bahamas, but supported the Scottish National Party and the demands for Scottish independence.

Connery refused to play the role of the magician Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” on the grounds that he “doesn’t understand the script”, missing $ 30 million and 15% of the box office. For the same reasons, he refuses to play “The Architect” in the Wachowski sisters’ trilogy “The Matrix.”

In a 2005 interview, he said he probably wouldn’t make any more movies because “he’s tired of the idiots now working in Hollywood.” A spokeswoman later said: “But one of his famous films is called ‘Never Say Never.’

Connery was also named “Sexiest Man” by People Magazine in 1989 and “Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999.

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