Sean Connery, Actor And The Original James Bond, Dies At 90

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Sean Connery, pictured in Amsterdam during the 1971 filming of Diamonds Are Forever, played James Bond in seven movies.





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Sean Connery waves to the audience in receiving a lifetime achievement award from AFI in 2006.





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He made his final Bond film in 1983, Never Say Never Again (though he did reprise the part to record a voiceover for the From Russia With Love video game in 2005).

Connery was Scottish to the core — he had the word Scotland tattooed on his arm. A member of the Scottish National Party, he ardently supported secession from Great Britain.

In 1999, he addressed hundreds of party activists before a vote. Despite that, the Queen of England knighted him the next year.

Sir Sean Connery will be remembered many ways — as an old-fashioned male sex symbol, a financial patron of the arts and a beloved son of Edinburgh — and, of course, for his many roles.

A cult favorite part comes in the film version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, where Connery stars alongside his real-life friend Michael Caine. When it all goes wrong, they’re marched to the edge of a cliff.

As Connery’s character prepares to meet his death, he remains defiant to the last moment. Still wearing his crown, he sings.