3. Sean Connery
(Edinburgh, 1930) British film actor who, after gaining popularity
thanks to his incarnations of the secret agent James Bond, later
demonstrated his excellent acting skills in other genres over a long
career. After serving for three years in the navy, he held various
trades and at the age of twenty he attended the Mister Universo
contest on behalf of Scotland. In 1951 he played his first, rather
minor role in the theater; After acquiring some experience, in 1954 he
began to play small roles in the cinema and other more important ones
on television, such as the boxer in the series Requiem for a
heavyweight.
4. Connery as a young boy.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
6. Connery, number 24 in center, competes in a bodybuilder beauty contest in the 1950s.ullstein bild/Getty Images
7. Van Johnson, Sean Connery and
Martine Carol battle it out in a fight
scene from Action of the Tiger (1957),
directed by Terence Young.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
8. With Lana Turner in Another Time,
Another Place (1958). Photograph:
Cinetext/Paramount/Allstar
9. Connery is seen with his wife, Diane Cilento, on
their honeymoon near Marbella, Spain, in
December 1962.Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix/Getty
Images
10. As James Bond for Dr No (1962). Photograph: United Artists/Sportsphoto/Allstar
11. Ursula Andress and Connery
perform in a scene from "Dr.
No," Connery's first film as James
Bond.Michael Ochs
Archives/Moviepix/Getty Images
12. With Lois Maxwell in From Russia With Love (1963).
Photograph: The Kobal Collection
13. Actor Sean Connery poses in Istanbul, where he
filmed 'From Russia with Love', in 1963.
14. Filming From Russia With Love with Daniela Bianchi in 1963. Photograph: Rex Features
21. Connery with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie in 1964. Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar
22. Tippi Hedren (in bed) with Diane Baker, Alfred Hitchcock and Sean Connery, rehearsing the psychological thriller Marnie in 1964
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
23. As James Bond again in Thunderball (1965).
Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features
25. With an assortment of ‘Bond girls’ in Thunderball. Photograph: United Artists/Allstar
26.
27. With Jill St John in the James Bond
film Diamonds are Forever (1971).
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext
Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinet
ext Collection
28. Connery rehearses a scene in the 1971 Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."Terry O'Neill/Getty Images
29. Alongside Michael Caine in John
Huston’s The Man Who Would
Be King (1975).Photograph:
Sportsphoto/Allstar
30. Starring as Robin
Hood, with Audrey
Hepburn as Maid
Marian, in Robin And
Marian
(1976).Photograph:
SNAP / Rex Features
31. In the romantic Robin Hood drama
Robin and Marian, 1976, which co-
starred Audrey Hepburn as Marian
Photograph: Allstar/Columbia
32. Sean Connery on the set of the 1983 Bond movie Never Say Never Again. Photograph: Sheila Penn/Sygma via Getty Images
33. With Gene Hackman,
Dirk Bogarde and Ryan
O’Neal in A Bridge Too
Far (1977).
Photograph:
Cinetext/Allstar
34. In Irvin Kershner’s Never Say Never Again with Kim Basinger, 1983
Photograph: Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty Images
36. With Christopher Lambert in the action-fantasy movie Highlander, 1986Photograph: Allstar/EMI/Studiocanal.
37. Making up a fearsome foursome with Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith in The Untouchables (1987).Photograph: Everett / Rex Features
38. With the Oscar for best supporting
actor The Untouchables earned
him.Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features
39. Feeling the heat with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock
42. As Allan Quatermain in the steampunk superhero film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003
Photograph: Reuters
43. Posing for photographers in a photocall for his film Entrapment at the Cannes film festival in 1999.
Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
44. Connery’s face projected onto the rocks
beneath Edinburgh castle to mark the
opening of the Edinburgh film festival.
Photograph: Simon Grosset/PA
45. Connery during a day that saw him campaign for the SNP and open a theatre – the Byre theatre, St Andrews – in 2001.
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
46. With his wife, Micheline, at the Marrakech film festival in 2004. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features
47. Connery receives the European Film Academy's lifetime achievement award in 2005.DB Marcus Brandt/dpa/picture-alliance/AP
48. Connery received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
(AFI) in 2006, presented by Indiana Jones co-star Harrison Ford.Getty Images
49. Connery promotes his new book "Being a
Scot" at the Edinburgh International Book
Festival in 2008. Connery was a staunch
supporter of Scottish independence.Ed
Jones/AFP/Getty Images