Sir Sean Connery | 24.hu



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He was ninety years old.

It also won the most prestigious awards in the world of cinema, once with the Oscar statuette, twice with BAFTA and three times with the Golden Globe, in 2000 II. He was inaugurated as a knight by Queen Elizabeth.

Born August 25, 1930, a Scottish cleaning lady and truck driver Thomas Sean Connery At sixteen he joined the Royal Navy in 1946, where he spent three years. He started his career as a bodybuilder in 1948 (he also competed in a Mr. Universe competition), but he also had a nice track as a soccer player, but he still wanted to be an actor.

He received his first small role in 1953, in a musical that toured the country, which rose to prominence the following year, thanks not only to his talent but also to some lucky coincidences.

The real hit, however, is the first James Bond film, the Dr. No (1962). In the next twenty-one years, he hid under 007’s skin six more times, but in the meantime, the greatest directors of the time also began to occupy him: During his five-decade career, Connery appeared in works of geniuses such as Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Brian de Palma, or alone Steven Spielberg.

We summarize the work of an actor who has played an important role in cinema in recent decades in an extensive article a few months ago.

Seven years ago, it was revealed that the legend suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, a Photo on Sunday Referring to the actor’s friends, the magazine also claimed that Connery, who had been living in retirement in New York and Spain for years, had not taken a film role since 2012, he was no longer the master of his mind.

The exact cause of his death is not yet known.

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