Sir Sean Connery, the legendary James Bond actor passed away at 90 on Saturday. He had been unwell for quite some time and passed away at the Bahamas in his sleep.
At 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy, and was discharged three years later on health grounds. He returned to the cooperative society where he took up his milkman job, and did several other odd jobs before starting backstage work at the King’s Theatre in 1951. He landed a small part as a chorus boy a few years later. In 1957, Connery got his first film role, in No Road Back. The breakthrough role, of course, came five years later. As the first James Bond.
Connery, who became Sir Sean in 2000, won numerous awards during his decades-spanning career encompassing an array of big-screen hits, including an Oscar, three Golden Globes and two Bafta awards. He is credited with making the ‘Bond, James Bond’ dialogue famous.
His acting career spanned five decades and he won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables. Sir Sean, from Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, had his first major film appearance in 1957 British gangster film No Road Back. He first played James Bond in Dr No in 1962 and went on to appear in five other official films – and the unofficial Never Say Never Again in 1983. The Scottish actor was on a number of occasions voted by fans as the best actor to have played Bond, beating out current 007 Daniel Craig and Roger Moore.