Sean Connery gone but not forgotten.

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The first and greatest movie James Bond now belongs to the ages.

First Roger Moore, then him, who will be next? Hopefully not Pierce Brosnan.

I’ll always remember him for Celebrity Jeopardy.

He was such an outstanding actor. His performances after Bond showed off his great ability.

According to Wiki while still a struggling unknown he had already become friends with Michael Caine.

By the end of the Sixties Caine reported that Connery was so sick of playing Bond that you couldnt even bring up the subject of Bond around Connery, and said that Connery "is a much better actor than for just playing James Bond".

With great effort he managed to escape being typecast as Bond.

The two of them starred together in circa 1980 in the Kipling story "the Man Who Would be King". I was glad to read that both of them said it was one of their "favorite movies", because the little known gem is also one of my favorite movies. Set in British India and Afghanistan - the pair were great as the two renegade Victorian British soldiers who launch a harebrained misadventure to become "kings of Kaffiristan".

There are many talented performers.
Very few have Presence.
He did.

I'll always remember the most iconic phrase from Ramirez in The Highlander.

"There can be only one."

Malone in The Untouchables

He was perfect as James Bond.

He was a proponent of hitting women. Rot in hell, Mr. Connery.

Roger Moore was The Saint. Sean Connery was James Bond.

Roger Moore was indeed the Saint during the Sixties while Connery played Bond. But Moore took over the role of James Bond in the Seventies in seven hit movies (to Connery's six Sixties movies). Connery returned to bondage for two more still later movies. In the 2000s we had Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. But there were other Bond actors. David Niven played an elderly and retired James Bond in the original 1967 "Casino Royale" (a comic spoof very unlike the recent Daniel Craig "Casino Royale").

I think the entertainment he provided overrides his flaws. RIP Mr Connery.

However, Never Say Never Again (Connery’s last) was not an Eon film, thus not official.

Also, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (the one with George Lazenby)was released in 1969, before Diamonds are Forever, the last one Connery did with Eon.

Tell that to the women he's hit.

I think his social value as a moviestar and icon still give him some currency even if his ideas over women are a little "passe"