RIP Mr. Bond

[ChappyUK]

Sean Connery dead at 90. RIP

Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90

He was the first to bring James Bond to the big screen and played the role seven times.

www.bbc.co.uk

The only Bond that mattered.

 

[Plugger35]

I'm shaken and stirred, Sean Connery is James Bond.

Anyone else is an imposter, apart from Roger Moore.

 

[GROTTO]

Not a Bond Movie, but I loved this line in The Rock by him.

 

[Plugger35]

He wasn't just James Bond.

He was great in other films too, The Hunt for Red October, The Name of the Rose and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade just to name a few.

 

[GROTTO]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Lilacs in the Spring	Unknown	Uncredited[1]
1957	No Road Back	Spike
Hell Drivers	Johnny Kates
Action of the Tiger	Mike
Time Lock	2nd Welder
1958	Another Time, Another Place	Mark Trevor
1959	Darby O'Gill and the Little People	Michael McBride
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure	O'Bannion
1961	On the Fiddle	Pedlar Pascoe
The Frightened City	Paddy Damion
Macbeth	Macbeth
Anna Karenina	Count Alexei Vronsky	Rudolph Cartier producer
1962	The Longest Day	Pte. Flanagan
Dr. No	James Bond
1963	From Russia with Love
1964	Goldfinger
Marnie	Mark Rutland
Woman of Straw	Anthony Richmond
1965	The Hill	Joe Roberts
Thunderball	James Bond
1966	Un monde nouveau	Himself	Cameo
A Fine Madness	Samson Shillitoe
1967	You Only Live Twice	James Bond
The Bowler and the Bunnet	Himself	Documentary; also director
1968	Shalako	Shalako
1969	The Red Tent	Roald Amundsen
1970	The Molly Maguires	Jack Kehoe
1971	The Anderson Tapes	Duke Anderson
Diamonds Are Forever	James Bond
1972	España campo de golf	Himself	Short film
The Offence	Detective Sergeant Johnson
1974	Zardoz	Zed
Murder on the Orient Express	Colonel Arbuthnot
Ransom	Nils Tahlvik
1975	The Dream Factory	Himself	Documentary
The Wind and the Lion	Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni
The Man Who Would Be King	Daniel Dravot
1976	Robin and Marian	Robin Hood
The Next Man	Khalil Abdul-Muhsen
1977	A Bridge Too Far	Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart
1979	The First Great Train Robbery	Edward Pierce
Meteor	Dr Paul Bradley
Cuba	Robert Dapes
1981	Outland	Marshal William T. O'Niel
Time Bandits	King Agamemnon
1982	G'olé!	Narrator	Documentary
Five Days One Summer	Douglas Meredith
Wrong Is Right	Patrick Hale
1983	Sean Connery's Edinburgh	Himself	Short documentary
Never Say Never Again	James Bond
1984	Sword of the Valiant	The Green Knight
1986	Highlander	Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez
The Name of the Rose	William of Baskerville
1987	The Untouchables	Jim Malone
1988	The Presidio	Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell
Memories of Me	Himself	Uncredited cameo[2]
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Henry Jones, Sr.
Family Business	Jessie McMullen
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Captain Marko Ramius
The Russia House	Barley Blair
1991	Highlander II: The Quickening	Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	King Richard the Lionheart	Uncredited cameo[3]
1992	Medicine Man	Dr. Robert Campbell Robert Campbell Age 43 Ht 199cm Wt 110kg Pos. Ruck Career Season Last 5 D 8.9 2star K 3.2 1star HB 5.7 4star HO 12.6 5star No current season stats available D 7.8 2star K 4.2 2star HB 3.6 3star HO 10.2 5star
1993	Rising Sun	Capt. John Connor	Also executive producer
1994	A Good Man in Africa	Dr. Alex Murray
1995	Just Cause	Paul Armstrong	Also executive producer
First Knight	King Arthur
1996	Dragonheart	Draco	Voice role[4]
The Rock	John Patrick Mason	Also executive producer
1998	The Avengers	Sir August de Wynter
Playing by Heart	Paul
1999	Entrapment	Robert MacDougal	Also producer
2000	Finding Forrester	William Forrester	Also producer
2003	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Allan Quatermain	Also executive producer
2012	Sir Billi	Sir Billi	Voice role Also executive producer[5][4]
Ever to Excel	Narrator	Documentary[6][7] Final film

 

[ChappyUK]

He wasn't just James Bond.

He was great in other films too, The Hunt for Red October, The Name of the Rose and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade just to name a few.

Untouchables was his best.

 

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[Plugger35]

Not many guys can play a Russian submarine general with a Scottish accent and still pull it off.




I can imagine the producers of that film asking Connery to do a Russian accent.

Then Connery knocks them back and tells them he's going to talk like he normally does.

Then the producers are like, let's just roll with it, we got Connery don't push the envelope.

 

[edgie]

Actually seen him in In The Fiddle recently on daytime TV. Strange seeing him play second fiddle to someone only shortly before his break as Bond.

 

[Falconista]

One of the finest actors of the 20th century. Demonstrated no more strongly than the fact he could play a wide range of characters with the same voice and made it work!

No one rocked a wig better either.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I will always remember him in Zardoz ,set in the future ....2019

 

[PT Bar None]

As well as all the above, I liked him in The Presidio, especially the scene where he fights the bar gorilla with his right thumb:


"... you'll be able to correctly identify his rank, so he won't get pissed off and accidentally hurt you."

 

[Exhalted One]

Big supporter of Scottish independence

 

[Spitty_the_alpaca]

Wife basher

 

[raskolnikov]

Roger was the best Bond.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

I thought this thread was going to be about the new casting direction for the Bond films.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

He had more affairs than a working girl has clients..

His best was as ramirez in highlander. Not the sequels But.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Love the film 'Outland'. Excellent gritty sci-fi.

 

[Caesar]

Not a Bond Movie, but I loved this line in The Rock by him.

It always irked me that a Scottish actor playing a Scottish character used the phrase ‘prom queen’.

 

[Walt Kowalski]

Decent actor but a-grade arseh*le.