Sir Sean Connery Passes on

Posted by Honey October 31, 2020

Sir Sean Connery Passes on

A very, very sad day... Sir Sean Connery has passed away, aged 90. The first actor to bring Ian Fleming's iconic James Bond to life on the big screen, Sean Connery was no doubt a versatile actor, not only as 007, but in other memorable roles, until his retirement after his final film, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where he played Allan Quatermaine.

The Scottish actor's first turn as James Bond began in 1962's Dr. No, appearing in other Bond films; From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. He returned as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, after Australian actor George Lazenby replaced him in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and later again in the campy remake of Thunderball, Never Say Never Again.

In Darby O' Gill and the Little People (1959)

Before, during and after playing the iconic spy, Sir Connery played Macbeth in a 1961 Canadian adaptation, featured in Disney's Darby O' Gill and the Little People, a rather amoral publisher in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez in Highlander and Highlander II , Indiana Jones' cranky father Henry in The Last Crusade, King Arthur in First Knight, the voice of Draco in Dragonheart, the mysterious prisoner in The Rock, an artful thief in Entrapment and a reclusive writer in Finding Forrester. Sir Connery received his first and only Oscar for playing police officer Jim Malone in The Untouchables.

Two Bond actors gone, the world having lost Sir Roger Moore- the 3rd Bond- in 2017. Sir Sean Connery will be forever missed and always remembered as the very first 007.

Rest in peace sir.