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進入《TAIPEI TIMES》 Silver screen star Sean Connery dies at the age of 90
Sean Connery arrives at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland on June 16, 2010. Photo: Reuters
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Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to dominate the silver screen for four decades, has died aged 90, the BBC and Sky News reported yesterday.
Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked as a coffin polisher, milkman and lifeguard before his bodybuilding hobby helped launch an acting career that made him one of the world’s biggest stars.
He will be remembered first as British agent 007, the character created by novelist Ian Fleming and immortalized by Connery in films starting with Dr. No in 1962.
As Bond, his debonair manner and wry humor belied a darker, violent edge and he crafted a depth of character that set the standard for those who followed him in the role.
He would introduce himself in the movies with the signature line, “Bond, James Bond,” but Connery was unhappy being defined by the role and once said he “hated that damned James Bond.”
Tall and handsome, with a throaty voice to match a sometimes crusty personality, Connery played a series of noteworthy roles besides Bond and won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a tough Chicago cop in The Untouchables （1987）.
He was 59 when People magazine declared him the “sexiest man alive” in 1989.
Born Thomas Connery on Aug. 25, 1930, he was the elder of two sons of a long-distance truck driver and a mother who worked as a cleaner. He dropped out of school at age 13.
At 16, two years after World War II ended, Connery was drafted into the British Royal Navy, and served three years.
“I grew up with no notion of a career, much less acting,” he once said. “I certainly never have plotted it out. It was all happenstance, really.”
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
