The first actor to portray James Bond in film, Sean Connery, has died at the age of 90.
He starred in seven Bond films: (every film from Dr No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983.
In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. He has also worked in Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Name of the Rose (1986), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Thomas Sean Connery was born in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh on August 25, 1930. Son of a Catholic factory worker and a Protestant domestic cleaner, his father’s family had emigrated from Ireland in the 19th Century.
Young Tommy Connery was brought up in one room of a tenement with a shared toilet and no hot water. He left school at 13 with no qualifications and delivered milk, polished coffins and laid bricks, before joining the Royal Navy.
He drove trucks, worked as a lifeguard and posed as a model at the Edinburgh College of Art.
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