Sean Connery, the Scottish actor well known for his depiction of James Bond, has died at the age of 90, the BBC announced, citing a family. He was, for many, the classic James Bond.
Connery started the film series in 1962 and set the bar by which the world went to know Her Majesty’s most popular secret agent.
His own association with the character was ambivalent — he gave the role up more than once — but in all Connery played Bond in six official films, including Goldfinger, and in an unofficial seventh, Never Say Never Again, in 1983.
The victory awarded him international attention and Connery did not shy away from designs that were diverse, surprising, but always asking.
Alfred Hitchcock led him in the emotional thriller, Marnie.
A few years later, he joined the American filmmaker John Huston on an arrangement of Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King. It would be one of Connery’s favourites.
The 1980s marked Connery star in major hits like The Name of the Rose, in which he played a character who mentored young students.
That kind of role happened in many following films, like the global hit Highlander, where he dressed the clothes of an endless Spanish aristocrat who trains a young Scottish warrior to achieve his mission.