Sean Connery: from 007 to Indiana Jones – a career in pictures

From the 1950s to the noughties, we revisit the many screen lives of Sean Connery, cinema’s first James Bond, who has died aged 90

Sean Connery with Albert Sharpe and Janet Munro in Disney’s leprechaun tale Darby O’Gill and the Little People, 1959

As Ian Fleming’s 007 on the set of Dr No, with the Swiss actor Ursula Andress, in 1962

Connery in Dr No, directed by Terence Young

From Russia With Love, with Robert Shaw, in 1963

Tippi Hedren (in bed) with Diane Baker, Alfred Hitchcock and Sean Connery, rehearsing the psychological thriller Marnie in 1964

Connery with Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, 1964

At the Cannes film festival, 1965

Making a getaway with Q’s jetpack in Thunderball, 1965

Connery with Donald Pleasence as Blofeld and his Persian cat in You Only Live Twice, 1967

Connery as Moses Zebulon ‘Shalako’ Carlin and Brigitte Bardot as Countess Irina Lazaar in the British western Shalako, directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1968

In The Anderson Tapes, directed by Sidney Lumet, 1971

Filming Diamonds Are Forever on a replica of the lunar surface at Pinewood studios, Buckinghamshire, 1971

In John Boorman’s surrealist 1974 science fantasy Zardoz, Connery’s second post-Bond role

In John Huston’s 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King, adapted from a Rudyard Kipling novella, with Michael Caine

In the romantic Robin Hood drama Robin and Marian, 1976, which co-starred Audrey Hepburn as Marian

In Irvin Kershner’s Never Say Never Again with Kim Basinger, 1983

With Christopher Lambert in the action-fantasy movie Highlander, 1986

As the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose, 1986, with F Murray Abraham

Andy Garcia, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith in The Untouchables, 1987

Feeling the heat with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989.

In The Hunt for Red October, 1990, with Alec Baldwin

In Michael Bay’s thriller The Rock, with Nicolas Cage, 1996

As Allan Quatermain in the steampunk superhero film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003

Connery launches his book Being a Scot at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2008

Culled from the UK Guardian

 

 

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