Sean Connery is dead – VG

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Scottish actor and James Bond hero Sean Connery has died. He turned 90, writes the BBC.

Connery died Saturday night in the Bahamas in his sleep, and is said to have been ill for some time, the family reports to the channel.

– We are devastated by the news of Sir Sean Connery’s passing. He was and will always be remembered as the original James Bond, who began to make his indelible impression on film history by uttering the haunting words “My name is Bond. James Bond.”, Say Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli through the film series Twitter-konto.

– It certainly has a large part of the credit that the film series has been a success. We will always be grateful, they add.

His acting career spanned decades. He has won an Oscar, two Bafta Awards, and three Golden Globes Awards.

Comes from crowded conditions

Connery was born in Edinburgh on August 25, 1930. He came from a difficult background and left school at age 14 to work as a milkman, writes The Guardian.

He then worked as a lifeguard, before building his acting career through bodybuilding.

Throughout his career, he was a staunch supporter of Scottish independence and became a prominent member of the Scottish Nationalist Party. According to the British newspaper, this led to plans to defeat him as a knight in 1997 to be blocked.

Three years later, in 2000, Connery was still knighted by the British Queen.

He is best known for his role as James Bond in the 1960s, but has had a versatile acting career since the 1950s.

He has had several important roles

In an article in Bergens Tidende from 2007, the former mayor of Osterøy, Erling Raknes, says that Sean Connery visited his half-uncle Ola Raknes early in his career for therapy classes.

Raknes had taken care of some of the patients from an Austrian psychiatrist named Wilhelm Reich, and after his death, Connery was one of several Reich supporters who came to Norway to come to Ola Raknes.

Connery had a supporting role in “The Imperishable” (1987) for which he won an Oscar, starred in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) and starred in “The Hunt for Red October” (1990). After starring in the action adventure “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (2003), Connery withdrew from the spotlight.

The Scotsman played Roald Amundsen in “The Red Tent” (1971) and was the head of security “Tahlvik” at Fornebu airport in the movie “Ransom” (1974). That film also shot scenes elsewhere in Norway, including at Rådhusplassen in Oslo.

Han har spilled syv James Bond-filmene i ‘Dr. No “(1962),” From Russia with love “(1963),” Goldfinger “(1964),” Thunderball “(1965),” You only live twice “(1967),” Diamonds are forever “(1971 ) og “Never say never again” (1983).

– The real picture of 007

Connery has been called by many the best James Bond, and has won several votes as the best British agent with the number 007, writes the BBC.

John Berge runs the jamesbond.no website and has published magazines and books about the world-famous agent.

– Sean Connery means a lot to many, like it or not, says Berge.

He thinks that Connery for many will continue to be the very image of Agent 007.

– He was the most connected to James Bond and helped define how Bond should be interpreted. There are probably many who put on a Bond movie and remember tonight, says Berge.

– In bauta

Bernt Ringvold (60) is perhaps the Norwegian who knows the most about James Bond. He won “Get Rid of or Duplicate” on NRK in 1989 and 1994. Both times he was Agent 007.

– A great old man has disappeared, says Ringvold.

He says he’s been a Bond fan since 1974.

– At the time, there were only eight James Bond movies. Six of them had played Sean Connery. He was the first and for me always the best James Bond.

– What happened to him?

– He had an animal magnetism, was effortless and was as powerful as anyone. Interest in Bond films has never been greater than when he starred in “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball.”

Ringvold believes that audiences were little stimulated by the cinematic adventures of the early 1960s.

– They were not used to colorful action movies, with women, luxury, cars, gadgets and villains living on an island with nuclear weapons. People put the gum down their throats and were completely shackled.

Ringvold says that the first films broke all audience records. New York theaters broadcast “Goldfinger” 24 hours a day and filled the aisles in the middle of the night.

“After the Bond roles, Sean Connery became an actor who improved the movies he was in. He is probably considered a bauta in the movie world, more so than others who have played James Bond,” says Ringvold .