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A dedicated professional at his craft who established the screen persona of James Bond but also broke free from the bonds of that character to deliver other wonderful performances in The Man Who Would Be King, The Hill, The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Wind and the Lion, Outland, and many other films. The stories that his friends and colleagues will tell will surface about him in the days ahead. YouTube has dozens of interview clips of Connery’s friends laughing about the good times they had with him, particularly Michael Caine and the late Richard Harris.
I was surprised to see he was 90years old. I think of him as a young man. Eternal Rest In Peace.
The are many great scenes from The Hill directed by Sidney Lumet. Ossie Davis in particular dominates the film, but there are so many great performances in this film. Here is a sample of Connery’s contribution:
Andy Garcia pays tribute to Connery when Connery received AFI’s Life Achievement Award:
The only James Bond, in my book. RIP, 007 . . .
The Man Who Would Be King:
Rest in Peace.
One of my favorite movies, and one of Connery’s best performances IMHO. You could see how much fun he was having.
One of the few remaining gods of the silver screen has passed.
All the great spies blend into their environs, except one… The world meets him here:
Seems tonight’s agenda has been cleared to review my Bond collection up to Diamonds are Forever….
Michael Caine recounts a dinner with Sean Connery and a famous actress (Barbra Streisand):
I think The Man Who Would Be King is one of the most criminally underrated movies of all time. I never even heard of it when I was younger, but stumbled on it on cable one weekend afternoon. Connery and Caine together are an everlasting joy. I could watch it over and over and over and never get tired of it.
That said, the accent they shared, along with good looks, delighted my dad and caused confusion a few times in Las Vegas, where I once saw my dad happily provide an autograph.
When my dad got his cancer diagnosis his nurse was Vietnamese, and watching the two try and communicate was one of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed. She finally pointed at his chest, then covered the “3” on his door number, leaving “007”. He loved that nurse til he died about three months later.
RIP Sean Connery. Scotland’s favorite son (though my dad would have claimed that title)
A lovely man, in every sense of the word, and one who settled comfortably into his old age. Enjoyed him in a couple of Bond flicks, but fell for him big time in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Will watch that tonight.
“Our situation has not improved.” LOL. I can even forgive him his Scots Nationalism.
This is what we’ll be watching tonight for Halloween night, Sean and the screaming banshees.
+! Connery and Caine were a great team.
He once said the hardest thing he had to do as an actor was learn to sing an Irish ditty.
Took a while to dig this one up, but here’s Connery’s first-ever appearance for American audiences, playing a hotel baggage handler in Rome from a January, 1957 episode of “The Jack Benny Program”. The show was one of four Benny shot in Europe during the summer of ’56, and the scene with Sean — sporting the world’s only Scots-Italian accent — was filmed in England….
And no one ever voiced a cgi dragon so well.
Not his most memorable line or a star turn but I when I think of Connery the line that comes to mind is, “Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes!”
We were on a week long Highlands tour some years back, and our tour guide and bus driver Donald was a temporarily out of work Edinburgh IT worker. Amazing guy; loved Scotland and was a great guide. He told us a Connery story. Some years before Scotland had gotten their parliament back (IIRC) and Edinburgh had a huge city wide celebration. He and his wife were in some enormous crowd when suddenly a pair of hands gently grabbed his wife’s butt to move her aside and a deep voice said “pardon me, Hen”. He whipped his head around to confront the guy and it was … Sean Connery. Donald just squeaked “Sean”and Connery said “hello” and moved ahead through the crowd. I can still hear Donald’s perfect imitation of Sean’s voice. The best part was he said his wife spent the rest of the night bragging to her friends that “Sean Connery had his hands on me bum.”
Damn. Rest In Peace. One more damn thing. Rest In Peace.
My two daughters and I ALL had major crushes on Sean Connery, one of the few male actors who appealed to all ages.
Heck, I had a crush on him. When I was a kid, I got the 007 attache case toy for Christmas:
Here’s a terrific James Bond post from last year by @garymcvey. Really good stuff about Sean Connery with lots of commenters chiming in about favorite Bond/Connery (and other Bonds and Bond girls) moments. I particularly love Gary’s comment #36.
This is amazing. I need one of these.
I had one, too. It was great. I particularly liked the knife along the side of the case.
Zardoz -all Connery. If you can watch it, you are my friend.
If you can watch it a second time, seek medical attention.