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.

Connery was a patriotic Scot, he was knighted by the Queen, and he received numerous awards for his craft. On the screen, his characters were typically courageous, honorable, witty, and often hard-nosed. As the father of Indiana Jones he played against type as a timid professor shocked by his son’s violent outbursts and audiences loved the performance.

Women, of course, found him extremely attractive, his looks, his manner, his deep baritone voice with his thick Scots brogue (often imitated) certainly helped. Men all over the world wished they could be like him.