“My strength as an actor, I think, is that I’ve stayed close to the core of myself”
– Sean Connery“The name’s Bond… James Bond”
Sean Connery Amsterdam filming of Diamonds Are Forever
Sean Connery in Zardoz – 1973 – Director: John Boorman
Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first actor to bring novelist Ian Fleming’s suave and dashing secret agent to the silver screen and appearing in seven of the spy thrillers between 1962 and 1983.
Born Thomas Sean Connery in 1930, Connery was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He left school to become a milkman, a job which leads to an interesting footnote: his milk round included Fettes College, whose most legendary old boy is James Bond.
He joined the Royal Navy at 16, but was discharged with a stomach ulcer at 19. He then worked as a bricklayer, lifeguard and model. His break into film acting came in No Road Back (1957).
Sean Connery as james Bond in Goldfinger
Sean Connery Behind the scenes of Goldfinger
Sean Connery during production with Honor Blackman, who plays Pussy Galore and was known as a star of the hit British TV series, The Avengers
From the 1974 film, Zardoz.
Sean Connery and Jill St. John
Sean Connery and Jill St. John
Sean Connery and French actress Maryse Guy Mitsouko are shown on the set of “Thunderball” at Chateau d’Anet, 40 miles west of Paris, France, as filming starts on Feb. 16, 1965. Connery is appearing in his fourth James Bond movie. Mitsouko will play the role of Mademoiselle Laporte. (AP Photo)
Terence Young, Ursula Andress, Sean Connery 1962
Sean Connery advertising Matelot Vests
Sean Connery the sailor
Sean Connery and Lana Turner arrive for the premiere of “Another Time, Another Place” in London on Sept. 19, 1957.
American actress Lana Turner sits on an English cliffside overlooking the sea with British co-star Sean Connery during filming of the 1958 movie “Another Time, Another Place” in England. This is Connery’s first leading role in a film. (AP Photo)
Italian actress Luciana Paoluzzi, 25, one of the new James Bond girls, and actor Sean Connery are shown during filming of the latest James Bond picture “Thunderball” at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, March 16, 1965.
Claudine Auger and Sean Connery
Sean Connery and Jill St John
Sean Connery, at his home in Kentish Town, 1962
Sean Connery Advertising shoot for Smirnoff Vodka, 1962 – photo Terence Donovan
Director Terence Young giving notes to Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi in From Russia With Love.
Pinewood Studios, 1966. Sean Connery and Yul Brynner, flanked by footballers Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Moore.
Behind the scenes with Sean Connery and Adolfo Celi during filming for Thunderball (1965)
A scene from the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’ with Sean Connery, Claudine Auger and Adolfo Celi.
Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, 1967 – Photo by Terry O’Neill
Lana Turner and Sean Connery walk through a small town in England during filming of the 1958 movie
Sean Connery Behind the scenes of Goldfinger
Sean Connery during production with Honor Blackman, who plays Pussy Galore and was known as a star of the hit British TV series, The Avengers.
Sean Connery Shirley Eaton with director Guy Hamilton on set Goldfinger
Honor Blackman and Sean Connery on the set of Goldfinger in 1964, as director Guy Hamilton wields an eyeglass Terry O’Neill
1957
Sean Connery during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever. Photo by Terry O’Neill.
Sean Connery Behind the scenes at the beach for Thunderball
Jill St. John and Sean Connery.
Sean Connery and Jill St John while filming Diamonds Are Forever
1967: Film star Sean Connery with his first wife Diane Cilento at the film premiere of the James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’, in which he starred.
One of the Bond hopefuls after Sean Connery’s decision to resign from the role, John Richardson reacts as his screen-test costar pulls out a gun, 1967
Sara Kestelman reads Zed’s (Sean Connery) memories.
Claudine Auger and Sean Connery during filming of Thunderball.
Molly Peters and Sean Connery
Sean Connery films a scene for “You Only Live Twice” at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. James Bond, who has sampled most other of life’s good things, savours an Oriental delight-a Japanese bath for his new film “You Only Live Twice”. – Date: 26/09/1966
British actor Sean Connery, left, and Italian actress Daniela Bianchi are seen in Istanbul on Apr. 25, 1963. They are in Turkey filming ‘From Russia with Love’ in which Connery plays the part of MI6 agent James Bond and Bianchi plays the part of Tatiana Romanova.
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) meets Sean Connery (James Bond) for the first time before filming of the third Bond movie ‘Goldfinger’.
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) get’s a fit of giggles while pretending to submit to James Bond (Sean Connery) in this scene from ‘Goldfinger’, during filming at Pinewood Studios.
Actor Sean Connery is flanked by “Bond Girls,” while on the set of the latest James Bond 007 thriller “Goldfinger,” at Pinewood Studios, near Iver Heath. Standing immediately next to him on the right is Shirley Easton, who plays the character Jill Masterson, others are unidentified.
During filming of the third Bond film ‘Goldfinger’ at Pinewood Studios, James Bond (Sean Connery) is thrown by Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) before romance takes over in the hayloft.
Terence Young directing Connery and Bianchi.
1962, leaving his flat in Kentish Town
1957
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