Apparently the Bronx at one time was a very substantial neighborhood. They used to have the Yankee Stadium and the other one was called the The Polo Grounds.
Dealing with this financial stuff was too much for me.
Europe is completely reassembling. Scotland has as much importance in Europe and certainly in Asia and round the world.
Every time you open a Pandora's Box it's difficult to put the lid back on.
I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.
I don't consider myself militant but I have the advantage of having worked in most countries and continents of the world.
I don't know anything about baseball.
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.
I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.
I like to be in France, but I have no facility for languages.
I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
I love the idea they would rather have had another Louis there than Mitterand.
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
I moved out of Britain in 1975. I must have rubbed up the wrong way quite a lot of people.
I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
I pay tax wherever I work. The only difference with my situation is I'm resident in the Bahamas. Everywhere I work I pay the tax.
I think the greatest disservice done was Thatcher with the Poll Tax. What do you think would happen if they did that in France? It's unthinkable.
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
I volunteered to join the Navy for 12 years. If you get your calling up papers, you did it. It's like a Police State, and don't let anyone kid you it would be different.
I was born in Edinburgh. Everything round my home has been almost erased.
I went up to Scotland and made a documentary on shipyards. I did a month up there, appeared in it and directed it.
I'm optimistic that there's a movement towards Independence. It's addressed all the time between the two major parties that the Labour party will give an Assembly to devolution in Scotland.
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
Initially all the qualities and values that Thatcher presented in her initial regime were almost a direct reflection on the best of the Scottish characteristics. And she was cast out when she gave the Poll Tax here to the Scots.
It doesn't matter where the job is, the moment you have any sort of privilege, there's a great reluctance to give it up.
It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
It's rather sad Scotland isn't on a par with France.
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
The democratic principle of the country is rushing to recognise Croatia before they've even resolved any problems there. We should sort it out at home first.
The French have a Celtic link with the Scots and the Irish. The French, with their food and their language, are much more sophisticated, much more developed.
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
The Labour Party's history was that they gave their independence to all the Empire and Commonwealth.
The Tories come up here and threaten everybody's work, everybody's life force. They just say, We'll just move everything out if you don't come our way.
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
There's a spirit in Scotland which is rather sad because there's 20 million Scots in America, and possibly 25 to 30 percent of the Presidents of the United States are descended from Scots.
There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.
These Scottish MPs in London sound English. Anybody who has a Scottish accent is made aware of it instead of it being perfectly acceptable.
They say there's a million guns out there that they cannot account for. And Scotland has the worst drug situation in Europe. Everybody knows where it is and they're powerless to do anything.
This chap was trying to go on about the next phase in school and he had a very pronounced Scottish accent. There's a big failing when these kids in school get a complex because they talk like that.
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
We don't have the bridge between America and Scotland that Ireland has with America, and that's a real drawback.
We have to go back to the source of the oil. There was no question, there was an abundance. In a normal evolutionary sense, the oil question has to be addressed.
We see what's happened in Russia where, after 70 years of Communism, the kind of chaos that's going on there.
We've always been an island, and isolated. A lot of the attitude in Scotland is, they're not made to feel entitled.
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the US Open Golf Tournament.
You're encouraged to buy a car. They give you a road tax and places to park, and you must put a coin in. If you stay there any length of time, you're not allowed to feed the meter. If you can't get back to your car, they put a clamp on the car.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
I was called Sean long before I was an actor, I had an Irish buddy when I was twelve named Seamus -- 'pronounced Sha-mus'. So they nicknamed us Seamus and Shawn and it stuck.
I never disliked Bond, as some have thought. Creating a character like that does take a certain craft. It's simply natural to seek other roles.
I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - 'but you're not young, you're 40.'
Some age, others mature.
I had never read Tolkien, and I didn't understand the script when they sent it to me. Bobbits? Hobbits?" on turning down the role of Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings"
I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.
It's with me till I go in the box." [on whether he would ever escape being identified as 007
One of the things that strikes me is that no matter how difficult or underprivileged the situation you were living in as a child, it wasn't considered difficult. I don't think as children, you are aware of it. You have nothing to compare it to.
I don't know who could be in favor of it, but it can't be stopped. It is inevitable." [Speaking about the impending invasion of Iraq in March 2003
I'm fed up with the idiots, the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and those who green light them. I don't say they're all idiots - I'm just saying there's a lot of them. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.
I said I never would [do an autobiography] and then I thought about it and I said, 'I'm going to do it'. Then I started. Yeah, and it cost me a stonking amount of money not to do it - because I'd already put the wheels in motion. He [Davies] started to run with the ball with all this stuff. I realized I was going to be spending the best part of my life, and probably the rest of my life, trying to correct these inaccuracies and I can't be bothered.
Craig's a great choice, really interesting - different. He's a good actor. It's a completely new departure." (On Daniel Craig
I thought Pierce Brosnan was a good choice. I liked GoldenEye (1995). Timothy Dalton never got a handle on the role. He took it seriously in the wrong way. The person who plays Bond has to be dangerous. If there isn't a sense of threat, you can't be cool.
I think the fact that one's hair disappeared early made it easier. I never had a 'transition problem'. I've always played older. I played Harrison Ford's father and Dustin Hoffman's father. And this year, I'm going to be sixty-five. I'm hardly going to get into a weight program and do "Tarzan". I could have the best body sculpting in the world, but I'm never going to be James Bond again"
What happened was that I had polyps on my vocal cords for about six years. I had them lasered off each time. But then I had a little twinge of a problem while I was doing Rising Sun (1993). I couldn't get the timbre of my voice right. I couldn't get the variation and enunciation as comfortable as I wanted. So I went back to the doctor and he suggested radiation. I went for six weeks and didn't have any side effects or problems. Then I made the announcement that I had done radiation treatment. The publicists said not to do it, that it would set off an explosion. But I thought, if you do radiation and it's a success, why not speak about it?
It was a nightmare. The director should never have been given $185 million." [On The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
I have retired for good. It's been a bit rough since Christmas but I'm perfectly OK and I feel well. In fact, I'm working on a history book." (March 2006
One of the reasons I stopped doing it was because I got really fed up with the space stuff and special effects. I just found it getting more and more influential in the movies." - On why he resigned the role of James Bond while filming You Only Live Twice (1967
Though my feet are tired, my heart is not." (During his speech after receiving the AFI Life Achievement award
I had no grand plan. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.
Yeah, well, I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it." - On turning down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001
It is said that a total ban on handguns, including .22s, would take away innocent pleasure from thousands of people. Is that more or less pleasure than watching your child grow up?
On being one of the biggest movie stars in the world: "Well, that's only because of your price. And my current price? Well, ha, that's nobody's business but mine."
I am resting from acting - you might say I'm retired. It would take something really considerable to bring me back. Nothing has been discussed but I hear it's back on." - On _Indiana Jones 4 (2008)
There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!
I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but to take it out on a room that implies some psychiatric disorder. The way I was brought up made me think about the person who has to clean up afterwards.
I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. At times I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.
Dealing with this financial stuff was too much for me. It was back to education and I had to learn to understand it all myself.
Peter Mandelson, two times thrown out, is now representing Britain in Europe. In the olden times, they would have hung him up by his feet. The decisions in the UK are made by President Tony Blair and a couple of his cooks in the kitchen.
I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic book-keeping and they're bankrupt.
It reads as though one had made great dramatic decisions, but in fact one didn't. I certainly had the drive from the beginning, but the targets and ambitions were much, much less.
The time came for me to retire because of my rather unfortunate last movie ... The cost to me in terms of frustration and avoiding going to jail for murder cannot have continued.
Whenever I've tangled with a beautiful spy, have you noticed what invariably happens? Even if I know the girl is a nasty and dangerous little snake, I've still had to kiss her first and kill her later.
The Scottish media all say, 'Oh yeah, he's a tax exile.' I have paid more tax than the Government put together in that Parliament. I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America." (2004
It's purely political. I have never made any secret of my association, affiliation with the Scottish National Party. I don't like the turn it's taken now when they drag up something, which is something from the past about my violence towards women which I have attempted to answer in so many ways. It might have been a stupid comment of mine to say to smack a woman or slap a woman, I think I said, and it was picked up much later by an unmentionable in America who really worked a flanker and presented a show as though I had actually admitted that it was okay to punch women. In fact in the near future there will be some kind of revelation about quite a lot of that anyway, which I'm not going to go into now." - On his knighthood being blocked by the Labour government for the second time in 1998
I get asked the question so often, I thought it best to make an announcement. I thought long and hard about it and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film. I love working with Steven and George, and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun. I, do however, have one bit of advice for Junior: Demand that the critters be digital, the cliffs be low, and for goodness sake keep that whip by your side at all times in case you need to escape from the stunt coordinator! This is a remarkable cast, and I can only say, 'Break a leg, everyone.' I'll see you on May 22, 2008, at the theater!
Was offered the role of Robert Elliott by Brian De Palma in Dressed to Kill (1980) and was enthusiastic about it, but declined on account of previously acquired commitments.
Ranked #14 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
In 1953, he entered the Mr. Universe contest, finishing third in the tall man's division.
He was voted People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989.
Father of Jason Connery.
Wears a toupee in all the James Bond movies. He started losing his hair at the age of 21. Privately and in most other movies, he wears none.
He has two small tattoos on his right arm. One says "Scotland forever", the other "Mum and Dad." He got them when he enlisted in the British Navy at the age of 16.
Took dancing lessons for 11 years. His teacher was the Swedish dancer Yat Malmgren.
Had radiation therapy for an undisclosed throat ailment in 1993. In a February 1995 interview with Entertainment Weekley, Connery said the treatment had been to remove benign tumors from his vocal chords after he found himself losing his voice while filming Rising Sun (1993).
Donated his salary from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) to charity.
Formerly worked as a coffin polisher.
Brother of Neil Connery.
Formerly worked as a milk delivery man.
Major contributor to the Scottish National Party (SNP). This was stopped for a while when the ruling Labour government said people living outside of the United Kingdom would not be allowed to donate money to British political parties.
Voted 'Sexiest Man of the Century' by People Magazine. [1999]
Said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983), he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain... the instructor was Steven Seagal.
Recipient of 22nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contribution to arts and culture, presented by President Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 1999.
Used to live in Marbella, Spain, near a golf course where he played daily when not filming. He left following disagreements with the local press, and now resides in the Bahamas where he plays golf much less frequently.
He has his own film production company (Fountainbridge Films). Fountainbridge is an area of Edinburgh where he was born.
Awarded a Knighthood on New Year's Eve, 1999. Formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in an hour-long ceremony at Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace. His wife Micheline and brother Neil were by his side. (5 July 2000)
Noted to be one of James Bond's favorite actors in the novel "Scorpius." Connery previously played James Bond in seven films.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#7). [1995]
Grandson, Dashiell Quinn, born. [1997]
Gert Günther Hoffmann was his German voice for years and even though his voice was very low it fitted the charismatic and charming part of Connery perfectly. G.G. Hoffmann died in 1997. The following dubber's deep voice was incredibly equal to Connery's real one...Manfred Wagner died after dubbing two Sean Connery films, First Knight (1995) and The Rock (1996).
He joined the Merchant Navy as a teenager but stomach ulcers forced him to leave. He received a disability pension for a period after this.
After his service with the Merchant Navy, he worked as a nude model for Edinburgh art students.
During his time as a milkman, Connery delivered to Fettes School in Edinburgh - the same school which James Bond attended in Ian Fleming's novels following his expulsion from Eton.
Received the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1991.
Was paid a huge sum to return as James Bond for Diamonds Are Forever (1971), setting a record. It was donated to his Scottish charity.
Caused an uproar in a December 1987 interview with Barbara Walters in which he said it was OK to hit a woman if they deserved it or needed it to keep them in line. He had said similar things in a November 1965 interview with Playboy magazine.
He had a brief relationship with Lynsey De Paul.
He is a life-long supporter of (Glasgow) Celtic Football Club, but attends the occasional Rangers game because he is a close personal friend of David Murray, the Rangers owner.
He ranked first among the Male British movie actors in the Orange Film Survey of 10,000 voters.
Actress Mia Sara is his ex-daughter-in-law.
Received the honorary degree of DLitt from St Andrews University in 1988.
Turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings series (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)) because he didn't want to film down in New Zealand for 18 months, and could not understand the novels.
Declared in March 2003 that he would not return home until Scotland is an independent country. He believes this can still happen during his lifetime.
Parodied on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) by Darrell Hammond.
His favorite Bond film is From Russia with Love (1963).
Has played four kings: 'King' Daniel Dravot in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), King Agamemnon in Time Bandits (1981), King Richard in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and King Arthur in First Knight (1995).
Whilst filming Playing by Heart (1998) he loved playing and even made a friendship with three and a half year old Piper Maru Anderson; daughter of an actress Gillian Anderson who played Meredith (a daughter of Sean's character).
According to a poll, conducted by British film magazine Empire, he created the worst accent in the history of cinema in the movie The Untouchables (1987).
Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, originally did not like him being cast as Bond for Dr. No (1962) because he felt that he was too "unrefined". The actor whom Fleming embodied Bond in Fleming's mind was 'Cary Grant (I)' . Fleming later changed his mind and admitted he was ideally cast in the role.
Turned down the role of the Architect in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
Won the role of James Bond after producer Albert R. Broccoli attended a screening of Sean in Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). He was particularly impressed with the fistfight Sean has with a village bully at the climax of the film. Cubby later had his wife, writer Dana Broccoli, see the film and she confirmed his sex appeal.
He was voted the 24th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
He says that his two favorite Bond films are From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).
He and his son, actor Jason Connery, have both played Robin Hood. Sean played an aging Robin Hood opposite Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian (1976). Jason played Robin Hood, AKA: Robert of Huntingten, in the television series "Robin of Sherwood" (1984). Jason also played Ian Fleming in the television movie The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) (TV). Fleming was the author of the James Bond novels that made Sean famous in 1962.
Connery received excellent notices for his 1961 TV portrayal of Macbeth and longed to make a film of "The Scottish Play." His plans for a film in the early 1970s were terminated by the production of the 1971 Roman Polanski-Kenneth Tynan film of the play.
Had a difficult time getting work after he abandoned the James Bond role a second time after Diamonds Are Forever (1971) for which he received a record salary. Director John Boorman thus was able to hire him very cheaply for his low-budget production of Zardoz (1974).
Voted Best British Actor of all time in a poll for Sky TV [Feb 2005].
Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, the original producers of the James Bond films, cast him because they liked how he was a big, tough-looking man who nonetheless moved gracefully ("like a cat").
Premiere Magazine ranked him as #36 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Had cataracts removed from both eyes in 2003.
Played James Bond in Thunderball (1965). 18 years later, he reprised the role in the film's remake, Never Say Never Again (1983).
Turned down the title role in the original The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), which he later admitted was a huge mistake on his part.
In 1998, he received a Tony Award for co-producing the play "Art" by Yasmina Reza.
He pulled out of a film in September 2004, sparking rumors that he was going to retire. However three months later in an interview with "The Scotsman" newspaper from his home in the Bahamas, he said he is taking a year out to write his autobiography (something he had previously vowed never to do), and hopes to make another film.
Was a good friend of Sir Michael Caine and the late Richard Harris.
Pulled out of a seven-figure deal for a planned autobiography for the second time, in March 2005. The actor signed a deal in 2004 with ghostwriter Hunter Davies to produce an account of his life from Edinburgh milkman to international film superstar. Six months prior to his hook-up with Davies, Connery also canceled a similar deal with Scottish writer Meg Henderson, who said later: "He isn't the man I thought he was."
Panama's President Mireya Moscoso presented him with a Manuel Amador Guerrero award, named after the country's first president. She said he was given the award for his "talent and versatility." Sir Sean was on a trip to Panama to visit various humanitarian programs conducted by the government. (10 March 2003)
Was the original choice to play Sybock in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). The words in the film "Sha Ka Ree" are a play on his name.
Shares his birthday with American director Tim Burton.
Terry Gilliam did not intend to cast him as King Agamemnon in Time Bandits (1981), he simply wrote in the screenplay that when Agamemnon took off his helmet he looked "exactly like Sean Connery." To Gilliam's surprise, the script found its way into Connery's hands and Connery subsequently expressed interest in doing the film.
Was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond.
Marnie (1964) co-star Tippi Hedren named one of her house cats after him.
His accent was the model for the voice of Stratos in the 2002 remake of He-Man & The Masters of the Universe.
The Edinburgh Filmhouse rejected a proposal to rename itself "The Sean Connery Filmhouse" in November 2005 following complaints over Connery's status as a tax exile.
His original idol was Welsh actor Stanley Baker because he played believable tough guys in quality British movies which he produced himself.
He was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the European Film Awards in Berlin, presented to him by Jean-Jacques Annaud, who directed Connery in Name der Rose, Der (1986). (3 December 2005)
Was seriously considered for the role of King Philip of Macedonia in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004).
Underwent surgery at a New York hospital to remove a tumour from his kidney in January 2006. Connery's brother Neil said, "As far as I'm led to believe the tumour was benign. He seems to be quite upbeat about it."
Was delighted to be honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, which he will receive on June 8 2006 in Los Angeles, as he was honored despite his reputation as a harsh critic of the movie industry. "It means a tremendous amount, especially because of some of the things I have said about Hollywood."
Announced his retirement in an interview in New York City during the Tartan Week 2006 celebrations. "I have retired for good," he said.
Presented with the Marrakech International Film Festival Award in Morocco by his friend and Just Cause (1995) co-star Laurence Fishburne. (8 December 2004)
In 1999 he called on the Scottish parliament to ban all handguns in the country.
Started smoking when he was nine years old.
His performance as James Bond in the 007 films is ranked #5 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Was the original voice of Tack the Cobbler, the hero of Richard Williams's animated cult masterpiece The Princess and the Cobbler (1993). In the original version (from the work print and the resulting "Recobbled" fan-restoration), Tack was mute until the very end, when he spoke in Sean Connery's voice.
Of his career choices in the '90s (pretty much his last decade in film), The Rock (1996) and Entrapment (1999) are the films he liked the most. On the other hand, The Avengers (1998) was a film he regretted doing at all.
Turned down the role of John Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993). Coincidentally, his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) co-star, Harrison Ford, was offered the role of Dr. Alan Grant. Not to mention, it would've reunited both of them with director Steven Spielberg.
Turned down the role of Simon Gruber in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) due to the diabolical nature of the character. Director John McTiernan, who directed Connery in The Hunt for Red October (1990), said he was the very first choice for that role.
He pulled out of an interview for the Edinburgh Festival of Politics in August 2006 after George Reid, the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, vowed to ask him why he once told a magazine that some women want a "smack". Sir Sean, the Scottish National Party's most famous supporter, said it was "unacceptable" and it would have compromised the interview.
Presented with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award by his Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) co-star Harrison Ford, who told him, "John Wayne gave us the old West. James Stewart gave us our town. You gave us the world." (8 June 2006)
Is the first (and as of 2006 the only) actor that played "James Bond" to win an Oscar.
He has never appeared in a "Skiing" James Bond picture. Though Goldfinger came close as it has sequences set in the lower Swiss mountains, all the ski, snow and ice Bond films belong to the other James Bond actors: George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)); Roger Moore(The Spy Who Loved Me (1977); For Your Eyes Only (1981); A View to a Kill (1985)); Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights (1987)); Pierce Brosnan (The World Is Not Enough (1999); Die Another Day (2002).
Connery and Pierce Brosnan have both played King Arthur, the only Bond actors to do so. Connery played Arthur in First Knight (1995), Brosnan provided Arthur's voice in Quest for Camelot (1998). Additionally, Connery is the only actor to have played both of England's most famous kings; he played Richard the Lionhearted in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
His father Joseph Connery died of throat cancer at the age of sixty-nine in August 1972.
Received a lifetime achievement award at the opening night of the Festa del Cinema, Rome's inaugural film festival. Connery was presented with the Marco Aurelio award in recognition of "his numerous cinematic endeavours over the years". (13 October 2006).
December 2002: Voted "The Male Celebrity With The Sexiest Voice" in a survey carried out by a mobile phone company. Kylie Minogue topped the female category!.
He brought future James Bond, Roger Moore to a press screening in Paris for Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Has named his personal favorite of his movies and performances as The Offence (1972).
The extraordinary success of Goldfinger (1964), which was released in December 1964, and of 1965's Thunderball (1965) propelled Connery to the top of Quigley Publications' annual Top Ten Money Making Stars poll in 1965. He remains the only British male star to be the #1 box office star in America.
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