“Now that you’re on this, I hope we are going to have some gratuitous sex and violence”

Retired Scottish actor and producer, the untouchable Sean Connery is an Academy Award winner best known for playing the infamous and the first ever ‘007’ in ‘Dr. No.’ from the ‘James Bond’ spy movie franchise.

Between 1962 and 1983, Connery starred in seven Bond films including ‘From Russia with Love’ in 1963, ‘Goldfinger’ in 1964, ‘Thunderball’ in 1965, ‘You Only Live Twice’ in 1967, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ in 1971 and ‘Never Say Never Again’ in 1983.

Directed by Brian De Palma, in 1987 Connery won an Academy Award for gangster movie ‘The Untouchables’ for his role as Irish American officer Jimmy Malone, which was built around the real life Irish American agent and “Untouchables” member Marty Lahart. The film is based on the 1957 novel ‘The Untouchables’ and also stars Kevin Costner, Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro and Al Capone.

In 1989 Connery was proclaimed the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine, and at age 69, he was voted the “Sexiest Man of the Century”.

His film career spans across 60 decades and includes classics such as ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’, ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’, ‘Highlander’, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, ‘The Rock’, ‘The Hunt for Red October’, ‘Marnie’ and ‘The Name of the Rose’.