Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. Others
Actor Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, according to the BBC.
Connery was born in the Scottish city of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) on August 25, 1930. Son of a truck driver and a cleaning lady, the actor remembered the poverty he lived in his childhood, of which he was not aware because it was the situation by which that all his neighbors passed by.
He stopped going to school at the age of 13 and went to work as a milk delivery man.
At the age of 16, he entered the Navy, with the intention of remaining seven years of service, but left it at 19 years of age.
Upon his return to civil life, he performed various minor jobs in construction or funeral homes as well as being a model at the Edinburgh School of Fine Arts.
In 1953 he participated in the election of Mister Universe in London, where he caught the attention of a theater director who offered him a role in the musical South Pacific.
It was then that the actor decided to make his stage name Sean Connery.
He began acting in films and television shows, such as
Rod Serling's
acclaimed
Requiem for a heavyweight
for the BBC.
In 1957 he acted in
Terence Young's
Frontier of Terror
and a year later in
Lewis Allen's
Mists of Restlessness
, with Lana Turner.
During filming, she got into a fight with Johnny Stompanato, the actress's boyfriend, on the same set.
Connery was rumored to have an affair with Turner and that was what sparked the incident.
In 1962 he released the character that catapulted him to fame, James Bond, Agent 007 of the United Kingdom's secret services in the film adaptation of the novel
Dr No
by Ian Fleming.
The extraordinary popular success of
007 against the Doctor No was
followed by six more installments of the saga of films with the same character starring Connery:
From Russia with Love
(1963),
Goldfinger
(1964),
Operation Thunder
(1965),
You Only Live Two Times
(1967),
Diamonds Forever
(1971) and
Never Say Never Again
(1983).
The actor was not pigeonholed, as he participated in projects of very different make and status, such as the war film
The Longest Day
(1962),
Marnie, the Thief
, by Alfred Hitchcock (1964) or
The Hill
, by Sidney Lumet (1965) .
His role as a detective monk in
The Name of the Rose
by Jean Jacques Annaud (1986), based on the homonymous play by Umberto Eco, was awarded by the British Academy of Cinematography, and in 1988 he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for
The Untouchables. by Elliot Ness
by Brian de Palma.
In 2008 he published his autobiography, entitled
Being a scot
.
He had problems with the Swiss justice in 2009 for some deals done 30 years before with an investor whose descendants were claiming money from a loan and a year later, the Spanish justice claimed his statement as a defendant for the irregular reclassification of the lands in Marbella where he had his residence, but the actor did not appear on the date set alleging health problems.
Sean Connery was a great golf fan and repeatedly expressed his support for the Scottish independence cause.
He was married to actress Diane Cilento between 1962 and 1973 and they had one son.
She accused him of mistreatment and the actor has made some apologetic statements of violence against women.
In 1975 he married the painter Roquebrune Micheline, his wife until the end of his life.