Sean Connery – a life in pictures

A retrospective of the life and career of Sean Connery, former James Bond, Scottish icon and a major Hollywood star for decades

Main image: A portrait of Sir Sean Connery Photograph: Cynthia Gould/REX/Shutterstock

Sat 31 Oct 2020 08.59 EDT First published on Sat 31 Oct 2020 08.59 EDT

Connery as a young boy.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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As a teenager.
Photograph: Rex Features
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With wrestler Chopper Howlett.
Photograph: David P Webster/Rex/Shutterstock
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Van Johnson, Sean Connery and Martine Carol battle it out in a fight scene from Action of the Tiger (1957), directed by Terence Young.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
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With Lana Turner in Another Time, Another Place (1958).
Photograph: Cinetext/Paramount/Allstar
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A scene from the film Hell Drivers in which Connery (‘Johnny’), Patrick McGoohan (‘Red’) and Sid James (‘Dusty’) laugh at Stanley Baker (‘Tom’) as he struggles on the floor.
Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
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As James Bond for Dr No (1962).
Photograph: United Artists/Sportsphoto/Allstar
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With Ursula Andress in Dr No.
Photograph: Cinetext/United Artists/Allstar
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Connery and Bond writer Ian Fleming on the set of Goldfinger in 1964.
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
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With Lois Maxwell in From Russia With Love (1963).
Photograph: The Kobal Collection
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Filming From Russia With Love with Daniela Bianchi in 1963.
Photograph: Rex Features
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Leaning on an Aston Martin DB5 as Bond in Goldfinger (1964).
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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Connery And Honor Blackman during the filming of Goldfinger.
Photograph: John Knoote/Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock
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With Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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Golfing in Goldfinger.
Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar
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Bantering with Gert Fröbe in Goldfinger.
Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo
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Connery with his then wife Diane Cilento and family.
Photograph: Rex Features
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Connery with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie in 1964.
Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto/Allstar
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As James Bond again in Thunderball (1965).
Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features
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With an assortment of ‘Bond girls’ in Thunderball.
Photograph: United Artists/Allstar
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With Jill St John in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever (1971).
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection
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As James Bond in You Only Live Twice (1967).
Photograph: United Artists/Allstar
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Taking a dip in You Only Live Twice.
Photograph: United Artists/Allstar
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A more strenuous episode of You Only Live Twice.
Photograph: United Artists/Allstar
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With Brigitte Bardot in Shalako (1968).
Photograph: Cinetext /Allstar
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Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon and director Sidney Lumet on the set of The Anderson Tapes (1971).
Photograph: Cannon\Everett / Rex Features
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As James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
In Zardoz (1974).
Photograph: 20 Century Fox/Allstar/Cinetext
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Alongside Michael Caine in John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975).Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Starring as Robin Hood, with Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, in Robin And Marian (1976).Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
With Gene Hackman, Dirk Bogarde and Ryan O’Neal in A Bridge Too Far (1977).
Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
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Alongside Christian Slater in The Name of the Rose (1986).Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Looking into Christopher Lambert’s eyes in Highlander (1986).
Photograph: EMI/Sportsphoto/Allstar
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Making up a fearsome foursome with Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith in The Untouchables (1987).Photograph: Everett / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
With the Oscar for best supporting actor The Untouchables earned him.Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
With fellow Brits Michael Caine and Roger Moore at the Oscars in Los Angeles in 1989.
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
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Talking to Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery on the set of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).Photograph: Everett / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
The Hunt For Red October (1990).Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
With Michelle Pfeiffer in 1990’s The Russia House. Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Opposite Meg Ryan in The Presidio (1988).Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
In Medicine Man (1992) with Lorraine Bracco.
Photograph: Buena Vista/Allstar/Cinetext
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Posing for photographers in a photocall for his film Entrapment at the Cannes film festival in 1999.
Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
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With politician Alex Salmond for an SNP rally at the EICC, Edinburgh in 1999.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
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Connery’s face projected onto the rocks beneath Edinburgh castle to mark the opening of the Edinburgh film festival.
Photograph: Simon Grosset/PA
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Connery during a day that saw him campaign for the SNP and open a theatre – the Byre theatre, St Andrews – in 2001.
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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With his wife, Micheline, at the Marrakech film festival in 2004. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
As Allan Quatermain, alongside Tony Curran as The Invisible Man, Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray and Naseeruddin Shah as Captain Nemo, in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox
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Connery after receiving his lifetime achievement award during the European film awards 2005 in Berlin.
Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images
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