Sean Connery suffers from dementia

The late Scottish movie star Sean Connery suffered from dementia, according to his wife. The disease “had a really bad effect on him,” said Micheline Roquebrune, who had been married to Connery since 1975.

She also revealed to the British tabloid “Mail on Sunday” that her husband died “in his sleep” on Saturday night with his family in Nassau, Bahamas.

“It was very peaceful,” Roquebrune said. She was with her husband the entire time. “We had a wonderful life together,” said the French painter. “Without him it will be very difficult, I know. But it couldn’t last forever and it went away in peace. “

Connery’s son Jason had reported the death of the James Bond actor on Saturday. Jason Connery told British broadcaster BBC that his father “was not doing well for some time.”

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Scotsman Connery became a world star in the 1960s; for many, he was the best James Bond actor of all time. But not only as a secret agent 007 inspired generations: he expanded his career with films such as Hitchcock’s psychological thriller “Marnie” (1964) and Umberto Eco’s adaptation “The Name of the Rose” (1986). In 1988, Connery won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the gangster thriller “Die Unbrechlichen.” In 2006, Connery ended his five-decade acting career.

After the announcement of Connery’s death, expressions of grief continued: “Sir Sean Connery, you were my best James Bond, for the boy I was and for the man who became James Bond,” Pierce Brosnan honored him. who played the charming and self-deprecating secret agent in the 1990s and early 2000s. Daniel Craig, the current Bond actor, praised Connery as “one of the real greats of cinema.” “He defined an era and a style.”

Connery’s funeral will be held in private, his family said Saturday. A great commemoration should take place after the end of the crown pandemic.

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