Actor Sean Connery, best known for playing Agent 007 in seven James Bond films over two decades, passed away today at the age of 90. No cause of death has been released.
Although Connery was known to have eventually detested the role, he was born to play James Bond. An aspiring bodybuilder with a black belt in karate, Connery was a real life tough guy who grew up poor on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before Bond came into his life, Connery did Bond like things such as when he single handedly beat up six members of Edinburgh's Valdor gang who wanted his jacket including smashing the heads of two gang members together. Then early into his film career, Connery knocked out L.A. mobster Johnny Stompanato who stormed the set of Another Place, Another Time with a gun believing that Connery was having an affair with his girlfriend Lana Turner. The bottom line is that Connery was a man you wanted as a friend rather than a foe.
Whatever his feelings about Bond, Connery managed to enjoy a viable post-Bond Hollywood career with appearances in films like Highlander, The Untouchables (for which he won his lone Academy Award), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, The Rock, Entrapment, Finding Forrester and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen before retiring from acting altogether 15 years ago.
Although he made his last movie 15 years ago, Sean Connery never really left us and won't leave us even in death. R.I.P.
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