From original James Bond to Oscar winner: Sir Sean Connery’s film highlights
The actor has died at the age of 90.
After catapulting to fame as the first ever James Bond, Sir Sean Connery had a glamorous and varied Hollywood career spanning 50 years which secured him prestigious awards including an Oscar and two Baftas.
Following Sir Sean’s death aged 90, the PA news agency takes a look back at his silver screen highlights.
After his first major appearance in 1957 British gangster film No Road Back, the former milkman became a Hollywood star as the first James Bond in 1962 film Dr No.
Famous for his dry one-liners and action-packed scenes, he set the scene for the womanising protagonist for decades to come.
His top Bond moments include the first “The name’s Bond, James Bond” line during a poker scene in Dr No, the Goldfinger scene where he is captured and threatened with a laser cutter after his Aston Martin crashes into a concrete wall, and the Orient Express brawl in From Russia With Love.
However, he returned as 007 in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971 before handing over the reins to Roger Moore.
He did return to 007 one last time, in 1993 at the age of 52, in the unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again.
In August 2020 he was voted the best ever Bond, seeing off competition from stars including Daniel Craig, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan in the poll for RadioTimes.com.
Most of his subsequent successes were as part of ensemble casts, in films such as The Man Who Would Be King, Murder On The Orient Express and A Bridge Too Far.
In the 1980s a slipping career was revived with Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), with his role as a tough gangbusting Irish policeman who mentors Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness winning him an Academy Award for best supporting actor.
Sir Sean also starred as the father of the leading role in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade in 1989, and received a Bafta nomination for best supporting actor.
In 2006, Sir Sean received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, when he confirmed his retirement from acting.
