The most memorable & extraordinary films of Sean Connery!

The most memorable & extraordinary films of Sean Connery!

Whenever fans are asked to name their favorite James Bond, it's almost always going to end up with the result putting Sean Connery into the top spot. Well, the actor died at the age of 90 leaving his charismatic personality behind. Sir Sean Connery was a Scottish actor and producer and was the first actor to have portrayed the literary character of James Bond in the film, starring in six EON Bond films between 1962 and 1971, then again in another Non-EON Bond film in 1983. So just to remember the brilliant actor, let's have a look at Sean's most unforgettable films which will stay in our hearts forever and ever.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

A 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. In the film, Sean played the role of Henry Jones, Indiana's father, a professor of Medieval literature who cared more about looking for the Grail than raising his son. Spielberg had Connery in mind when he suggested the film. Spielberg had been a fan of Connery's work as James Bond and felt that no one else could perform the role as perfectly as Sean can play it.

Dr. No (1962)

Dr. No Starring Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, and Jack Lord, it is the first film in the James Bond series and was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon.

From Russia with Love (1963)

In this film, Sean Connery portrays the role of Agent 007 in the second installment of the James Bond series. This time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. In this film, Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi) to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

Goldfinger (1964)

Goldfinger is a 1964 spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film plot revolves around Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger's plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. Goldfinger was the first Bond blockbuster, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Heralded as the film in the franchise where Sean Connery as James Bond comes into focus.

Thunderball (1965)

1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series, and follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world to ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either the United Kingdom or the United States. The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eyepatch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. In the plot, Sean as an MI6 agent was assigned to retrieve two stolen nuclear weapons.

You Only Live Twice (1967)

1967 spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series, the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet crewed spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island to find the perpetrators and comes face-to-face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. During the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond, but after one film's absence, he returned in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. In the film, Bond impersonated a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and soon uncovered a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. Bond has to battle his enemy for one last time, to stop the smuggling and stall Blofeld's plan of destroying Washington, D.C., and extorting the world with nuclear supremacy. Sean was admired in the role of James Bond.

Never Say Never Again (1983)

Connery played the role of James Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would 'never again' play that role. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming.

The Untouchables (1987)

The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime film directed by Brian De Palma and starred Sean Connery in the supporting role. For the film, the actor received an Academy Award and a BAFTA award. In the film, the story revolves around a mobster, Al Capone, who continues his illicit liquor business, despite being prohibited in the USA. A federal agent, Eliot Ness, is assigned to expose Capone's illegal business and bring him to justice.