British actor, film producer and Oscar winner Sir Thomas Sean Connery has died at the age of 90. The BBC reported on Saturday.
Connery first became famous in the 1960s as the secret agent James Bond. But after his departure from the 007 films, Connery needed a lot of time to establish himself as a successful actor beyond the Bond role. He only succeeded in doing this in the mid-1980s. He was awarded an Oscar for his appearance in the gangster thriller Die Unbrechlichen, in which Connery hunted down the notorious Al Capone (Robert De Niro) as an Irish police officer.
In 1989 he was voted “Sexiest Man Alive” by “People Magazine” and in 1999, when he was 69 years old, “Sexiest Man of the Century”. In 2004 he ended his film career.
James Bond makes Sean Connery a world star. But the actor takes a long time to break away from the 007 image. In the 80s and 90s, the uncomfortable Scot celebrated great film successes and won an Oscar. He withdrew from the public for a long time.
Whether in swimming trunks as 007, in captain’s uniform in “The Hunt for Red October” or in a monk’s robe in “The Name of the Rose” – Sean Connery always cuts a fine figure. At the beginning of the 1960s he became a world star through his parade role as British secret agent James Bond, and with dozens of other films he consolidated his popularity as an action star, character actor and sex symbol. The Scot will be 90 years old on Tuesday.
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