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World-renowned Scottish actor Sean Connery, who died to death in the Bahamas, has died at the age of ninety, the BBC reported.

Not many could say for themselves that they were considered sex symbols for more than sixty years, but in 1999, People magazine chose Connery, then 69, as the sexiest man of the century. It tells all about the impact that he was the first actor to play the character of James Bond. Decades of his last Bond film, a Never say Never After a new actor took on the role of British superspy, he was unwittingly measured by everyone for Connery.

Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh in 1930 and had a pretty colorful life even before he was cast as Bond. She modeled for students at the local art college, worked as a swimmer, a truck driver, and also polished coffins. He was also an active bodybuilder and at age 23, he was given the opportunity to become a professional soccer player, but he chose acting. He began working as an assistant at the King’s Theater in Edinburgh at the age of twenty, when he asked for some encouragement for one of the small roles in the musical South Pacific, which he received immediately. Connery insisted on acting, but his life only changed at a faster rate when he landed a role in the Disney live-action film The Gardener and the Little People. That is, exactly when Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the owner of the filming rights to Ian Fleming’s books, sat down to watch this movie and immediately felt that he had found James Bond.

Between 1962 and 1983, Connery played the secret agent in a total of seven films (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Fireball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds for Eternity, Never Say Never). His height, brutality and accented Scottish accent so defined the character that Fleming also adapted Bond in his later books. Connery was afraid of being pigeonholed for the role, but that didn’t really happen.

As much as the best-known role of his life was, Connery worked with a number of important, interesting, and notable filmmakers, including Sidney Lumet (The Hill, The Anderson Cassettes, Murder on the Orient Express), Alfred Hitchcock (Marnie), John Huston (Who Wanted to be King), John Boorman (Zardoz), Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits) and Richard Attenborough (The Bridge is Too Far). Their roles were all similar: an attractive but challenging hero who could go the distance. There was only one constant element in all the characters he played: He could barely bare his trademark Scottish accent, despite playing medieval Spanish (The Mountain Dweller), a Chicago cop (who defeated Al Capone, for which he received a Oscar, the only one in his career), or Indiana. Jones’ father (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusader).

He has always attached great importance to his Scottish origins, making two tattoos in his youth, one with the inscription “Mum & Dad” (mom and dad) and the other “Scotland Forever” (Scotland forever). He often appeared at public events in a traditional kilt and supported the Scottish National Party, which fought for Scottish independence, until British law allowed the parties to be funded abroad. He was knighted in 2000, and only very late because British politicians vetoed previous submissions on Connery’s political views.

Sean Connery was married once, marrying Diane Cilento in 1962, whom they divorced in 1973. Cilento gave birth to a son, Jason. His ex-wife posted a resume in 2006 claiming that Connery had been abused multiple times, both mentally and physically. Due to the accusation, the actor’s previous strange statements about women resurfaced. In 1965, he told Playboy that there was nothing particularly wrong with someone hitting a woman, but he did not recommend doing it in the same way that it would hit a man. In 1993, he told Vanity Fair that

… there are women who stretch the rope to the end. They look for the definitive confrontation. They want a slap.

Connerynek I had to cancel the public apologies, but she apologized and acknowledged that violence against women was never, under any circumstances, permissible.

When this scandal broke out, the actor had almost completely retired. While it was still a hit in the 1990s (Hunting for Red October, Brilliant Trap, The Rock), in the 2000s an action movie adapted from Alan Moore’s A Alliance comic turned into a nasty downfall, and filming the moans drove Connery away from Hollywood. nor did he get engaged in The Lord of the Rings. His last role in 2012 was in the British animated film Sir Billi, in which he borrowed the voice of the leading Scottish veterinarian.

(Cover photo: Sean Connery, December 1983. Photo: John Downing / Getty Images Hungary)