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Sean Connery
Connery in 1999
BornThomas Sean Connery
25 August 1930(1930-08-25)
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland
Dee'd31 October 2020(2020-10-31) (aged 90)
Nassau, The Bahamas
ThriftActor
Years active1954–2012
Hauf-marrae(s)
  • Diane Cilento (m. 1962; div. 1973)
  • Micheline Roquebrune (m. 1975)
BairnsJason Connery
KinNeil Connery (brother)
Militar career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years o service1946–1949
RankAble Seaman
UnitHMS Formidable
Signatur
Wabsteid
www.seanconnery.com

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 - 31 October 2020)[1][2] wis a Scots actor. He wis the first actor tae play the fictional Breetish secret agent James Bond in films, an starred in seiven Bond films atween 1962 an 1983.[3][4][5]

Early life

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Connery wis born at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh on 25 August 1930.[6] He wis brocht up at 176 Fountainbridge, a tenement that haes syne been dung doun.[7] His first job wis as a milkman in Edinburgh wi St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society.[8] In 1946, at the age o 16, he jyned the Ryal Navy.[9]

Career

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Connery first played Bond in Dr. No (1962), an syne in From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) an Diamonds Are Forever (1971). His last turn as Bond wis in Never Say Never Again (1983).[3]

In 1988 Connery wan the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables.[10] His ither films include Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, the film remake o The Avengers an The Rock. He wis knichtit in Julie 2000, an at the ceremony he wore a kilt o his mither's Clan Maclean hunting tartan.[11][12][13] He wis votit "The Greatest Living Scot"[14] an "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".[15] In 1989 he wis named "Sexiest Man Alive" bi People magazine an in 1999, at the age o 69, he wis votit "Sexiest Man of the Century". He supportit Rangers.[16]

Politics

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Connery wis a member o the Scots National Pairty, that wants Scots independence,[17] an he supportit the pairty wi money[18] an bi kythin at its events. In 2009 he wrote Being a Scot wi Murray Grigor, a beuk aboot Scotland an its fowk.[19]

Daith

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Connery deed in his sleep on 31 October 2020, at the age o 90, at his hame in Lyford Cay in Nassau in the Bahamas.[3][2]

References

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  1. ↑ Cohen, Susan; Cohen, Daniel (1985). Hollywood hunks and heroes (in Inglis). New York City, New York: Exeter Books. p. 33. ISBN 0-671-07528-4. OCLC 12644589.
  2. 1 2 "Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90". BBC. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Harmetz, Aljean (31 October 2020). "Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Shapiro, T. Rees (31 October 2020). "Sean Connery, first James Bond of film, dies at 90". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "Profile: Sean Connery". BBC News. 12 Mairch 2006. Retrieved 19 Mairch 2007.
  6. ↑ Pendreigh, Brian (1 November 2020). "Obituary: The Sean Connery I knew". The Scotsman. Retrieved 1 Februar 2021.
  7. ↑ "Sir Sean visits site of his childhood Edinburgh home". BBC News. 17 Juin 2010. Retrieved 1 Februar 2021.
  8. ↑ "From the Co-op with love ... the days Sir Sean earned £1 a week". The Scotsman. 21 November 2005. Archived frae the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
  9. ↑ "The Official Website of Sir Sean Connery – Biography". Seanconnery.com. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2010.
  10. ↑ "popculture.com's Oscar Winners Archive" (in Inglis). popculturemadness.com. Archived frae the original on 1 Mairch 2011. Retrieved 13 Mey 2008.
  11. ↑ Dunham, Will (2 November 2020). "Former James Bond actor Sean Connery dies aged 90". Reuters. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "No. 55710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1999.
  13. ↑ "Official website's entry on 2000 knighthood" (in Inglis). seanconnery.com. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
  14. ↑ Flockhart, Susan (25 Januar 2004). "Would The Greatest Living Scot Please Stand Up?; Here they are". The Sunday Herald (in Inglis). Archived frae the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2010.
  15. ↑ "Sir Sean Connery named Scotland's greatest living treasure" (in Inglis). 25 November 2011. Archived frae the original on 2 Apryle 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  16. ↑ Christie, Kevan; Speirs, Kathleen (31 October 2020). "Sir Sean Connery ditched Celtic for Rangers - and here's the reason why". Daily Record (in Inglis). Retrieved 12 Mey 2022.
  17. ↑ Seenan, Gerard (27 Apryle 1999). "Connery goes on the SNP offensive". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 Mey 2009.
  18. ↑ "Connery funds SNP through Jersey account". BBC News. 7 Mairch 2003. Retrieved 22 Januar 2012.
  19. ↑ Connery, Sean; Grigor, Murray (2009). Being a Scot. Phoenix Illustrated. ISBN 978-0-7538-2631-7.

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